Update Run Plugin MDL2 Icons to Fluent Icons

[DarthAV]

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.64.1

Installation method

PowerToys auto-update

Running as admin

Yes

Area(s) with issue?

PowerToys Run

Steps to reproduce

Currently, the icons used for the various PT Run plugins are using the MDL2 font icons. It makes sense to once again update the icons used within plugins to be consistent with the rest of the Power Toys and Windows 11.

The previous upgrade to MDL2 icons was tracked in the issue #4040 and updated in the PR #4149

✔️ Expected Behavior

I would expect to see fluent icons throughout all the plugin icons.

❌ Actual Behavior

MDL2 icons are present throughout the PT Run plugins.

Other Software

No response

[crutkas]

@DarthAV https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/style/segoe-fluent-icons-font#how-do-i-get-this-font

They aren't included on Windows 10 is why. Seeing if this is allowed due to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/downloads/#fonts does have them.

[DarthAV]

@crutkas If it's not possible to use the fluent icons font, could we simply use transparent PNGs of fluent icons as used in #4149. These are still present in the current branch. (In fact, the windows terminal plugin already uses a fluent icon png) Question: how does the settings page look without the fluent icons on Windows 10? Aren't there many fluent icons throughout?

[DarthAV]

Question: how does the settings page look without the fluent icons on Windows 10? Aren't there many fluent icons throughout?

Seems to me that, in the settings page, it is as simple as just referencing the font and if the Fluent Icons are installed then it will use them, if not it will use the MDL2 icons.

Could we replace the current png files found in locations like Calculator Icon Image with either:

• New transparent PNGs of the respective fluent icons
• Unicode values for fluent font icons which have a fallback to MDL2 icons.

[crutkas]

https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui-system-icons

we'd want to do a stripped down version of this TTF so we're not adding so much weight.

[crutkas]

https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui-system-icons/tree/main/fonts is where the fonts are

[Jay-o-Way]

I hate using png's in stead of font icons. We should use the variable theme symbol icon font. @niels9001 @htcfreek

[Jay-o-Way]

we'd want to do a stripped down version of this TTF so we're not adding so much weight.

You know, for icons that do not exist in Fluent, we could also create a custom font with custom icons.

[niels9001]

This was fixed in 0.76