Default DataGrid Filter Icon was changed

[panmona]

We are currently in the process of upgrading our Blazorise version and stumbled over the fact that the default filter icon when using the Material provider is now different.
It has been changed in this PR: #5266 as a seemingly unrelated change. I couldn't find an explanation on why this was changed in this PR. Was this intentional?

What is the reason why it was changed? I personally think the new icon is less clear.
Is there possibly a way to get the old icon back?

[stsrki]

The change was done as part of the larger update to the icons when we introduced a new Fluent provider, and as part of it, we also migrated and added many new icons to Bootstrap, Material, etc.

One of the changes was that the Material Filter icon was renamed from filter_alt to filter. Which is correct according to the official material page: https://fonts.google.com/icons?icon.query=filter

The downside is that it is not visually correct or what we would expect.

[panmona]

Thanks for the answer.

I don't quite understand the change just yet. It looks like both filter and filter_alt still exist as icons:
https://fonts.google.com/icons?icon.query=filter&icon.size=24&icon.color=%23e3e3e3&selected=Material+Symbols+Outlined:filter_alt:FILL@0;wght@400;GRAD@0;opsz@24

[stsrki]

Yes, but Blazorise.IconName enum is mapped to a { IconName.Filter, MaterialIcons.Filter }, which closely follows the naming 1:1.

We could make it as { IconName.Filter, MaterialIcons.FilterAlt },, although we would also have to add a special rule to our mapping tools. I'm still not convinced it is valid to change it, though.

[panmona]

However, as you said yourself:

The downside is that it is not visually correct or what we would expect.

The other reasons just seem to be of technical nature to me.

We can probably live with the change but we will need to see how vocal our users will react to this change...