I understand the reason for removing them but is there a way to use a grid layout for the categories instead of the standard accordion list? The standard category list layout just looks completely out of place compared to the previous icon category layout.
Thanks again for this great theme.
Derek
If there is enough interest I can take a look at making the icon an option to turn on and off. Because we use Fordson for our production site we make changes based on what our users want and I don't necessarily think of others.
Seeing that others may have liked the icons I am making a setting that will allow the user to choose which layout they prefer. Will be published later today as a fix.
Chris,
Thank you - that would be great. I must say you offer amazing support for your theme. Keep on rockin!
Derek
Version 1.5.4 is published here and on github. It adds a new toggle which will allow you to enable the category icons again.
Since the theme is so new I didn't know people would be attached to certain elements of the design.
If you have usability suggestions please post them.
We have one other major feature we are working on in which we want to integrate a grading panel which will show teachers items that need grading. Much like the teacher and student dashboards, this will slide down and present items much like some of the "Marking Blocks" do. With integration in the theme you can free up space for learning content and avoid adding a block that eat's up space. Our teachers have been asking for a way to quickly see what things need grading.
You can only choose one icon for all category folders.
Very early on we had used an image but it was confusing because the categories had images and then the courses used images.
People didn't know if they were clicking on a category or course.
That's when we decided to drop images for categories and just use icons to distinguish them from courses.
José Miguel Dager Montoya is a moodle user who originally helped with icons and images for courses and course categories. You can try contacting him to see if he continued to develop the image aspect of categories for Fordson.