20 Jan
2009
20 Jan
'09
5:46 p.m.
-0; read below.
Jean-Vincent Drean wrote:
Hi,
Silk icons is a 1000 icons set design for website and webapps.
Overview:
http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/previews/index_abc.png
In action:
http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Mockups/Children
I'm pretty sure you've already seen them since they are becoming a
standard all over the web.
I think we should bundle them with XWiki [1] for 3 reasons :
1/ They're gorgeous!
2/ We're using icons coming from here and there in our applications
(RMUI, Blog, etc) and we're missing some consistency.
This is indeed a problem I also noticed, and one that should be solved soon.
3/ Since XWiki is also a webapp development framework
I think it would
be a good thing that it comes with a complete webapp icons set.
Here's my +1.
The main problems I see are:
- The icons are only 16x16. Scaling them does not yield good results.
- They are not comprehensive. I'm sure there are some icons that we need
and which are not available in there.
So, I'm not against using Silk icons (we already do in some places), but
I don't think we should use it alone. We still need other icons, be
they from Tango, Crystal or custom made.
A better idea would be to try to define a guideline L&F, and whenever
doing an application, try to reuse from the existing icons as much as
possible, and to add icons from the same set when some icons are already
available.
--
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/