[For 1.8] Replace PM icons with Font Awesome

Ignore step 1 if you are already linking to Font Awesome CSS, although you need to make sure that it's the latest version (4.7.0 at this time) as these icons are new.

Step 1:

In headerinclude add above{$stylesheets}:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">

Step 2:

Add to usercp.css



Step 3:

Inprivate_messagebit andprivate_search_messagebit templates:

Find

<img src="{$theme['imgdir']}/{$msgstatus}.png" alt="{$msgalt}" title="{$msgalt}" />

and replace with:

<span class="x_{$msgstatus}" title="{$msgalt}"></span>


Before:



After:

I will definately try but the default one is pretty nice already

This made the Pm page look so much nicer. Thank you!

Nice tutorial thanks for this.