10 Jul
2014
10 Jul
'14
12:25 p.m.
2014-04-24 22:15 GMT+02:00 vincent(a)massol.net <vincent(a)massol.net>et>:
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.
Or... it could even depends on the skin. Colibri uses silk and Flamingo
font-based icons.
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:
Hello,
i have an idea concerning the icons of base skin colibri or others, we
should integrate "Entypo" on the skin ans delete all image icons, the
advantage is :
1- we win the chargement time of pages
2- reduce the number of code lines in the code.
3- we can add, edit , put color and change the sise of this icons
4- the skin of this icons are in flat design and we can put it in any
form
5- its free for any users
for more information http://www.entypo.com/
wordpress have just integrate this solution
Yacine
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