Re: Adding warning icon to warning admonitions?

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Fri Jan 05 2024 - 09:59:25 EST


Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> For the icon itself, the approach is to use Font Awesome [2] (many other doc
> sites that uses Sphinx also do that due to site theme they use but Alabaster
> theme don't use the icon, hence this question). I personally prefer regular
> icon variant (like in TT), but alas it is in non-free PRO plan (and only
> solid variant is free and that is what Sphinx themes using).
>
> Does adding warning icon like above idea make sense for the kernel docs? And
> does it require non-trivial (complex) changes to Alabaster theme?

It can probably be done with a bit of CSS tweaking. I don't really like
the idea of requiring the installation of another font to build the
docs, though, and Font Awesome looks like it could bring in licensing
issues of its own - that's not clear from the site at all.

jon