The `microchip` icon is missing from the status bar when a board is selected

[kittaakos]

Describe the problem

IDE2 should show an icon when a board is selected at the status bar. See here in the code. It does not work. Presumably, there is no such icon in our customized icon set. I believe the intention was to show the Font Awesome microchip icon. However, IDE2 shows the X icon if no board is selected.

Does not work:

arduino-ide/arduino-ide-extension/src/browser/contributions/selected-board.ts

Line 33 in 144df89

? `$(microchip) ${selectedBoard.name}`

Works:

arduino-ide/arduino-ide-extension/src/browser/contributions/selected-board.ts

Line 34 in 144df89

: `$(close) ${nls.localize(

Probably, IDE2 lost this feature when Theia switched to codicon; we just never noticed it. It’s just a guess, but a good one. See eclipse-theia/theia#9864.

To reproduce

Open IDE2 and select a board.

Expected behavior

The icon is visible in the status bar when a board is selected.

Arduino IDE version

144df89

Operating system

macOS

Operating system version

13.4.1

Additional context

The implementation will be tricky as Theia no longer supports FontAwesome, so IDE2 should patch the default behavior if a codicon replacement is not an acceptable solution.

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