Re: [xwiki-devs] idea front end

Yes using font-based icons is interesting (BTW http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icons/ looks richer than http://www.entypo.com/  to me). However, first we need to decide if we wish to support several icon sets or only have one that can potentially be configured. Supporting several icon sets means means introducing a new syntax in XWiki Syntax 2.2. For example: image:icon:<set name>:<icon name> Examples: * image:icon:silk:accept * image:icon:fa:home Now that makes it harder to reference an icon as it means more typing so we could also imagine a configurable mapping (defined in xwiki.properties) as follows: <prefix>.icon.mappings = accept = silk:accept <prefix>.icon.mappings = home = fa:home As a user you’d write: image:icon:accept image:icon:home (technically we’d check the number of “:” after “icon”. If 2 then it’s a named icon set. If 1 then it’s the default mapping) This would have the advantage of allowing mixing icon sets easily without being verbose and with this we would even be able to rewire icons without changing page content (for example image:icon:accept could be rewired from the silk icon set to the fa icon set’s fa:check). Now, we could also decide that we don’t introduce the icon set notation and that we only keep the icon:<icon name> format and that everything has to go through the configurable mapping. Or we could decide that we only ever want one icon set at a time, define properly all the icon names we wish to have and allow configuring the mapping of these name to a an icon set. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent On 24 Apr 2014 at 20:38:04, Sergiu Dumitriu (sergiu(a)xwiki.com) wrote: +1 for a font-based icon set, but before deciding on a specific one, we should make sure that we have a replacement for all the icons that we're currently using. After a very quick look, it doesn't look like the entypo font covers enough of our needs. Silk doesn't either, to be fair... On 04/24/2014 01:03 PM, Yacine Kebir wrote: