Replace deprecated material design brand icons with simple icons

[metbril]

The other day I noticed a big red deprecation notice with the Material Design Icons library. All brand icons are currently deprecated and will be removed in v8.

Templarian/MaterialDesign#6602

This includes the Home Assistant logo itself.

Do you already have any plans to add official support for a library of brand icons, for example simpleicons?

[ravngr]

There was a forum thread a few years back that got admin attention, though it doesn't look like an issue was opened as a result (not that I could find) and discussion got a bit sidetracked. There was also a follow-up feature request and a couple of custom integrations to add simpleicons.

It might be good to start identifying problematic icons before the dependency updates. The issues estimates the release of v8 sometime this year.

[metbril]

In the Brand/Logo category, currently at 242 icons, I can see for example:

• https://pictogrammers.com/library/mdi/icon/home-assistant/ !!!
• https://pictogrammers.com/library/mdi/icon/z-wave/ !!!
• https://pictogrammers.com/library/mdi/icon/zigbee/ !!!
• https://pictogrammers.com/library/mdi/icon/android/
• https://pictogrammers.com/library/mdi/icon/apple/
• https://pictogrammers.com/library/mdi/icon/apple-ios/
• https://pictogrammers.com/library/mdi/icon/github/
• https://pictogrammers.com/library/mdi/icon/microsoft-visual-studio-code/

And there are probably others used throughout Home Assistant Core (integrations) and elsewhere?

[ChristophCaina]

in this case, it could be an option to implement "custom band icons" (https://github.com/elax46/custom-brand-icons) which is available on HACS either into the core or as a fallback option (?)

[metbril]

I would prefer the simpleicons library which is widely known and supported. And also referred to by the MDI team.