Thank you. Indeed it is good. I did a search for the string ".svg" in the lib folder and found only the renderer SVG. So it *seems* that the images in openlayers\art aren't used anymore.
Is there a preference among the development folks as to which one of the other two they prefer? I have not created a patch before, but would like to help out by doing so. Before I get started, I wanted to get feedback about the location of the images. It seems fitting though that the theme folder would hold all images related to the style of OpenLayers. -Dejung Christopher Schmidt wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 02:41:56PM -0400, Dejung Gewissler wrote: > >> Hi Devs- >> >> In trying to better understand OpenLayers and how to customize aspects >> of it I came across three different locations for images. >> These are: >> - openlayers\img >> - openlayers\theme\default\img >> - openlayers\art >> >> Does anyone have any insight as to why they live separately? >> In choosing where to add my own customized images for the panZoom >> controls or other toolbars (like editing) I am ambiguous and need help :) >> > > In the beginning, there was a panzoom control. And it was blue, and we > said that it was good. > > And the art was created in vectors, for changing later: and we saved the > originals, and it was good. > > And then, users came along and asked to change things. So we changed > portions of the code to use CSS, and it was good. > > And the requests got more complex, and so we said "Let there be a Panel > Control". And it was. And it was good. > > And then we created images for hte panel control, which were > controllable via CSS. And we added them to the directory where the CSS > skin lived. And it was good. > > And then people came along and asked why there were two different way of > doing things, and we said "Hysterical Raisins"[1], despite it only being > the sixth day. > > And on the 7th day, we rested, and said "Patches welcome" to improve the > confusion.[2] > > > [1] http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/hysterical-reasons.html > [2] http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/1400 > > Regards, > -- *Dejung Gewissler* New Jersey Office of Information Technology Office of Geographic Information Systems 200 Riverview Plaza PO Box 212, Trenton, NJ 08625-0212 609.777.3754 _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
