20 Jan
2009
20 Jan
'09
5:22 p.m.
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.
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.
[1] I've mailed Silk author to discuss about licensing issues. I don't
know if bundling CCA2.5 licensed work within a LGPL package is
allowed.
JV.
20 Jan
20 Jan
5:30 p.m.
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Jean-Vincent Drean <jv(a)xwiki.com> 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.
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.
+1
[1] I've mailed Silk author to discuss about licensing issues. I don't
know if bundling CCA2.5 licensed work within a LGPL package is
allowed.
JV.
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5:37 p.m.
On Jan 20, 2009, at 5:22 PM, 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.
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.
[1] I've mailed Silk author to discuss about licensing issues. I don't
know if bundling CCA2.5 licensed work within a LGPL package is
allowed.
+1 provided the license is ok.
Do they have different sizes?
Thanks
-Vincent
http://xwiki.com
http://xwiki.org
http://massol.net
5:44 p.m.
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
On Jan 20, 2009, at 5:22 PM, Jean-Vincent Drean wrote:
+1
- Asiri
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.
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.
[1] I've mailed Silk author to discuss about licensing issues. I don't
know if bundling CCA2.5 licensed work within a LGPL package is
allowed.
+1 provided the license is ok.
5:47 p.m.
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
+1 provided the license is ok.
Do they have different sizes?
Unfortunately no, I think (just guessing) that the main reason is that
designing 16x16 icons is very different from designing scalable icons
(vector graphics).
Small icons are pixel art, I think that's why silk looks better than
all the usual vector icons sets scaled to 16x16.
My 2cts,
JV.
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/
6:07 p.m.
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <sergiu(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
-0; read below.
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.
I think that their purpose is not to be self-comprehensive, they
should be used along with text.
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.
I'm not saying that we should forbid to use icons from other
libraries, just that we should encourage the use of silk for all small
icons by providing them in our webapp. If we don't agree I'll just put
icons for my current needs but I think it's not the best option.
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.
We need that too.
On a related topic Laurent and I have started to work on pre-defined
styles (ie: css classes) for usual layout needs (tables, pages lists,
tabs, columns, etc).
See http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Crumbs/Tables for example.
JV.
21 Jan
21 Jan
9:46 a.m.
hello,
I'm +1
Le 20 janv. 09 à 18:07, Jean-Vincent Drean a écrit :
+1 small icons can be generic, and used in different skin, or L&F
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu
<sergiu(a)xwiki.com>
wrote:
+1
-0; read below.
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.
I think that their purpose is not to be self-comprehensive, they
should be used along with text. 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.
I'm not saying that we should forbid to use icons from other
libraries, just that we should encourage the use of silk for all small
icons by providing them in our webapp. If we don't agree I'll just put
icons for my current needs but I think it's not the best option. 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.
We need that too.
On a related topic Laurent and I have started to work on pre-defined
styles (ie: css classes) for usual layout needs (tables, pages lists,
tabs, columns, etc).
See http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Crumbs/Tables for
example.
JV.
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20 Jan
20 Jan
9:58 p.m.
+0, it would have been great if they were scalable.
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.
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.
[1] I've mailed Silk author to discuss about licensing issues. I don't
know if bundling CCA2.5 licensed work within a LGPL package is
allowed.
JV.
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Asiri Rathnayake -
Jean-Vincent Drean -
Jean-Vincent Drean -
Laurent Lunati -
Marius Dumitru Florea -
Sergiu Dumitriu -
Thomas Mortagne -
Vincent Massol