xwiki/xwiki-platform — comment on commit 31bc6a4b04d854887da650fa047c4e8122e9d996
File: xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-search/xwiki-platform-search-ui/src/main/resources/Main/DatabaseSearch.xml line 164
By evalica:

The main reason was there was no spacing between the icon and text. In order to solve that, I needed to put a space between them (that will lead to an underscore effect of the link) or add special CSS rules to manage the margins.

We have in XWiki, groups that contain (text + icon) where text links to an address and the icon links somewhere else (mostly RSS links) - in "Blog Categories" or "Quick Links" panels for example.
But in this case we have just an address (so no need for an img). This way is kind of symmetric with the search results: where we have the page icon and the page link and you can click just on the text link and not on the page icon.

I don't know why here the RSS icon is put as an img and not as a background-image (since IMO the icon is just a mark for the rss link and not an action button on its own).