Hello,
As you know this summer a student worked on Javafx widgets.
I will also contribute to the GUI module of apache SIS but there is a
little something we never talked about : Icons.
So far SIS didn't have many widgets but now that we will start to have
more we should choose how we handle images and icons when they are needed.
- Png/Jpeg/Gif/Bmp files have a considerable weight and don't scale well
- SVG scale correctly but is not well integrated in javafx, the default
SVGPath has limited capabilities and they are not easy to use.
- we could add an SVG library such as Apache Batik or SvgSalamander but
It would result in many more jars.
My proposal is to use a glyph font library like :
- FontAwesome (http://fontawesome.io/cheatsheet/) , license SIL OFL
1.1, 170kB
- Material (https://material.io/icons/) , license Apache2, 128kB
This solution offers a lot of icons (over 500), scaling well, convenient
to use in javafx, using a same neutral visual theme, and are very
lightweight.
Many more glyph font projects exist, even thematic ones like :
https://erikflowers.github.io/weather-icons/
What are your preferences ?
Johann Sorel
