Social platform icons now restricted to Font Awesome library fa-brands

[pfirpfel]

Regarding #839:

I understand that in most cases, this feature is now much simpler to use. But you are limited on what brand icons fontawesome has.

Would it be possible to still support the old icon system as a fallback?
Or not limit the icons to the fa-brands namespace in fontawesome? In my case being able to switch to fa-regular instead of fa-brands would be enough.

[ashmaroli]

We don't intend to support the old icon system alongside the current Font Awesome based system due to reasons mentioned in #839. Limiting support to just fa-brands was a conscious decision.

However, I am curious as to which fa-regular icons you intend to render as part of the social-icons list. If its the envelop icon to denote email, then I believe that is duplicating the info rendered elsewhere in the footer itself. You are free to customize the _includes/footer.html to change the rendering of footer or just _includes/social.html at your end if you want to render the envelop icon as part of social-links.

[pfirpfel]

I used to have more or less fa-calendar as an icon. But then it would need fa-brands changed into fa-regular. Same for fa-envelope.

I guess right now, the only way is to override the includes as you said. Being able to override the fontawesome "namespace" (fa-brands being the default) per social item would be cool though.

[pfirpfel]

This is how I solved it in my social.html for now:

<span class="grey fa-{{ entry.fa_namespace | default: "brands" }} fa-{{ entry.icon }} fa-lg"></span>

Example config:

minima:
  social_links:
    - title: Jekyll repository at GitHub
      icon: github
      url: "https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll"
    - title: Jekyll at X (formerly Twitter)
      icon: x-twitter
      url: "https://x.com/jekyllrb"
    - title: Email Jekyll
      icon: envelope
      fa_namespace: regular
      url: "mailto:[email protected]"