Make Icon extend Text instead of Label

[Peter Schulz]

Is there a reason why Icon extends Label instead of Text? This article suggests that Labels have a much higher memory footprint than Texts.

[Jens Deters]

Interesting point. Will do some tests to check!

[Jens Deters]

Looks good so far. The only issue is the size: switching internally from Label to Text leads into adjusting the current icons size.

[Peter Schulz]

Cool thanks for giving it a try. The change in size is something I noticed as well. I had to adapt the CSS in order to compensate for that. Let me know if I can be of any assistance.

[Jens Deters]

implemented in 8.1

[Peter Schulz]

Sweet! Nice work, also on the refactoring.

[Jens Deters]

Thanks! Please give it a try and feed me back!