feat: add support for icon contribution by extensions #2984
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What does this PR do?
add support for icon contribution by extensions
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What issues does this PR fix or reference?
fixes #1525
How to test this PR?
Add contribution in an extension
something like
download and store it at the root path of an extension
https://github.com/twbs/icons/blob/main/font/fonts/bootstrap-icons.woff2
add in package.json
to know the fontCharacter, use for example https://fontdrop.info (and upload the .woff2 file or create a file from svg using https://github.com/itgalaxy/webfont cli
and then for example for a status bar item, for the status icon, use instead of
fa fa-something
${my-custom-icon}
unit tests provided