Plans for a new release? about qtawesome HOT 7 CLOSED

Hi @yurivict, I know it has been a while.
I looked into it a few years ago. But since this v4 release (2015) Font-Awesome has been changed by adding categories like fas/far etc. Also there's a commercial part in the font definitions.

I don't see an easy way for QtAwesome to pickup this new format easy. I want this library to be backwards compatible with projects that are using this.

The idea I have for the future (but I didn't start with it),

• Is to define a new project QtAwesome6? which includes the free (no commercial fonts) by default
• And add a backwards compatibility layer so apps using the old font names still map to similar icons

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I've been looking to the newer FontAwesome code. I think the code for QtAwesome6 cpp/h should be build dynamically by using the yaml/json files with meta information. This makes it much easier to keep the code up-to-date.

I'm going to make 6 version, based on the current project.
(Btw. in the fontawesome-5 branch is a 5 version of fontawesome)

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Font Awesome 6 version has been released 🎉

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@gamecreature There's only a 'fontawesome 6' comment, and no such tag in the repository.

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Hi @yurivict what do you mean?
The new main branch contains the new release. Please note the master branch has been renamed to main.
Perhaps you cloned the repos while I was working on it. (I tried to add a main branch and keep the master. But that didn't works out as I had expected. So I reverted that and choose the rename master to main branch later).

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Ah I see!

I just tagged the 5 branch and the main branch with the font-awesome versions

• font-awesome-5.10.2
• font-awesome-6.2.0

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