Changing the tab icons to text (I cannot find where the icons are defined to add the text)
Please follow the steps below:
1. Navigate to Dashboard > Comments > Settings > Addons > Widgets admin page, put the following CSS code in the "Widget custom CSS" textarea:
div#widget-comments-container li a i:before{
display:none !important;
}
div#widget-comments-container li a p{
font-size:10px;
}
2. Put the following JS codes in the active theme js files:
jQuery("div#widget-comments-container .most-voted a i").html("<p>Most Voted Comments</p>");
jQuery("div#widget-comments-container .most-active a i").html("<p>Active Comments Threads</p>");
jQuery("div#widget-comments-container .popular-posts a i").html("<p>Most Commented Posts</p>");
jQuery("div#widget-comments-container .popular-authors a i").html("<p>Most Active Commenters</p>");
jQuery("div#widget-comments-container .wpd-wid-recent-comments a i").html("<p>Resent Comments</p>");
Important: We don't recommend you to change the icons to the text. If you make those changes you will have to write a large number of CSS codes to display the tabs title correctly (change width, height, font-size, etc.).
Shrinking the icons down a bit, and having them to the left of the descriptor text
It seems there is a CSS conflict. Please leave some example URL to allow us to check the issue.