Premium Layouts and Themes should use Primeicons for UI-Components instead of FontAwesome-Icons

[christophs78]

related to:
viewtopic.php?f=98&t=57813 and
https://github.com/primefaces/primefaces/issues/4778

summary:
PF uses a FontAwesome 4.x. This is an old, outdated version.
Users want to use a up-to-date-versions of FontAwesome (5.x; see related)
After this there are some issues because the Premium Themes use FontAwesome for UI-Component-Icons.

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// Icon Override Mixin
@mixin icon-override($icon) {
    background: none;
    display: inline-block;
    font: normal normal normal 14px/1 FontAwesome;
    font-size: inherit;

IMHO it would make sense to use PrimeIcons for this. Nova- und Luna-Themes already do this. Also PF Designer.

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// Icon Override Mixin
@mixin icon_override($icon) {
    font-family: 'primeicons';
    speak: none;
    font-style: normal;
    font-weight: normal;

[mert.sincan]

I think this link can help to you to use new FA version; viewtopic.php?f=98&t=57813
Also, we try to use PrimeIcons in new layouts as much as possible.

Best Regards,