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[Feature]: Icon function
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Description
Category
UI Components
Scope
Major Feature
Problem
Claude keeps hallucinating a ui.icon() function mimicking shiny's. Right now we import icons from faicons and it feels a bit clunky to have to import a separate package to use icons.
We should consider making ui.icon() a reality.
Solution
Expect it would look something like:
ui.input_action_button("id", "my label", *, icon=ui.icon("star"))
We should make sure the icons lack default margins, so the alignment is handled by the surrounding component.
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Research direction
Start by reviewing how py-shiny UI components currently use icons from the faicons package, especially the icon argument on components such as ui.input_action_button. Define the supported ui.icon("star") behavior and verify that rendered icons have no default margins so surrounding components control alignment.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100