gentelellashiny: Not able to show icons and change title

Question

I have found this gentelella bootstrap theme to be very nice. I am trying to use this for my personal finance dashboard. I am trying to do 2 things below:
1. Show icons in the sidebar
2. Change the title from "Shiny Gentelella" to something like "My Dashboard".

I simply tried to deploy the code in the below link as it, by using the gentelellapagecustom function. For that I installed the gentelellashiny package like below devtools::install_github("MarkEdmondson1234/gentelellaShiny")

and executed the code as it is. I did below:
1. Referred icon names like "bar-chart" as icon("bar-chart"). No luck. Any icon I put just shows boxes.
2. Changed title = "Shiny Gentelella" to title = "My Dashboard". I believe the title is hardcoded in the source code, therefore any changes are not getting reflected.

https://github.com/MarkEdmondson1234/gentelellaShiny#set-up-an-advanced-custom-page

Am I missing anything here?
Actual Result:

Note: I have another dashboard built with "shinydashboard". Icons are showing properly with the tag "icon("home")".

Answer 1

Use icons this way and it will work :)

 sidebarItem("Boxes", tabName = "boxes", icon = tags$i(class = "fas fa-clone"), badgeName = "New"),