1 Oct
2014
1 Oct
'14
4:13 p.m.
The prefix could be good to avoid having a name that already exists in
Silk, but I'm not 100% sure that it would be that useful.
2014-10-01 16:04 GMT+02:00 Jean SIMARD <jean.simard(a)xwiki.com>om>:
This sounds like a good idea. About the naming,
shouldn't we use a prefix
like
font-awesome? I know this is kind of different context but anyway, I just
launch the idea.
On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 03:59:01PM +0200, Guillaume "Louis-Marie"
Delhumeau wrote:
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Committer on the XWiki.org project
Hi.
In XWiki 6.2, we have introduced the Icon Theme Application [1]. The idea
was to be able to use Font Awesome in the Applications Panel without
breaking all extensions. So we have a mapping between silk icons (that
the
extensions used until now) and the font awesome
equivalents [2].
But, of course, the mapping is currently incomplete. For 2 reasons:
1/ It takes time to make it perfect (so feel free to improve it, directly
on the wiki page! [2])
2/ Some silk icons have no equivalent.
Where a silk equivalent is missing, the Icon Theme Application
automatically failbacks to the Silk icon, so something appears. Of
course,
it does not look very good when all icons are
monochromatic except only
one
[3].
When there is no equivalent, we could have a strategy to not failback on
Silk but instead using the most similar icon in Font Awesome. For example
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/resources/icons/silk/flag_blue.png and
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/resources/icons/silk/flag_green.png can both
be
mapped to
http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icon/flag/ . But it
would be problem if an extension use both icons to represent 2 different
actions. In my opinion, we should not do this and let the
failback-process
happens.
But actually, having this mapping should be only used for backward
compatibility. What I want to propose is about the future. We should not
use the silk icons anymore with the hope that it will be correctly mapped
in other icon themes.
What I want to create, is our own list of icons. The XWiki icon set. But
I
am not talking about drawing new icons. I am
talking about create an
official mapping for the icons we support and that have a mapping in all
existing icon themes.
For example, I have create the "wiki" icon, which is mapped to
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/resources/icons/silk/world.png in silk and on
http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icon/globe/ in font-awesome.
I believe we need to create that list and create a documentation about it
somewhere (maybe in a page integrated in XE, but at least on the
extension
page). So when a user create an application, she
no longer chose an icon
from the Silk collection but from our own list.
If we agree on that principle, we also need to agree on a convention
about
the name of our icons. I propose:
'some-name' which means everything in
lower case and words separated by '-'.
I hope you'll like the idea.
Thanks,
[1]
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Icon+Theme+Application
(The Icon Theme Application)
[2] http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/IconSet (The
mapping)
[3]
http://tof.canardpc.com/view/debc907e-d1ee-4e01-baff-dc740801e68d.jpg
(Problem)
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