Misalignment of md-list-avatar icons inside an md-list-item

Bug, feature request, or proposal:

Feature request

What is the expected behavior?

An md-list-avatar in a single lined md-list-item should align horizontally with the md-list-item text.

What is the current behavior?

The md-list-avatar does not align, the icon appears 8px more to the top then the text of the list item.

What are the steps to reproduce?

Create an md-list with list items containing an md-list-avatar and md-line, the issue occurs also on md-nav-list as well as non dense lists.

<md-list dense>
    <md-list-item> 
        <md-icon md-list-avatar>arrow_forward</md-icon>
        <h4 md-line>Pepper</h4>
    </md-list-item>
    <md-list-item> 
        <md-icon md-list-avatar>arrow_forward</md-icon>
        <h4 md-line>Salt</h4>
    </md-list-item>
    <md-list-item> 
        <md-icon md-list-avatar>arrow_forward</md-icon>
        <h4 md-line>Paprika</h4>
    </md-list-item>
</md-list>

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What is the use-case or motivation for changing an existing behavior?

The layout doesn’t look right without this change.

Which versions of Angular, Material, OS, browsers are affected?

Test on angular 2.4.2, material 2.0.0-beta.1, MacOs El Captain, Google Chrome 55.0.2883.95 (64-bit)

Is there anything else we should know?

The md-icon doesn’t have a specific height for the usage in an md-list. Adding height:24px to the md-icon will fix it.

[ocarreterom]

To display an icon in list item use md-list-icon directive instead of md-list-avatar.

[tobi-or-not-tobi]

Thanks @codef0rmer that’s indeed what I did to fix it. I didn’t know it was not recommended, I actually think its a very common to use an md-icon in a list like you and I do. I’ll rewrite the issue to change it from but to proposal.