On Oct 19, 2010, at 10:22 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea wrote: > On 10/19/2010 07:57 PM, Vincent Massol wrote: >> Hi devs, >> >> I'd like to propose 3 things: >> >> 1) Add support for symbols/emoticons using our new system in XWiki Syntax >> 2.1, i.e. >> >> image:symbol:<symbol name> >> > >> Another possibility is: image:icon:<icon name> > > +1 for icon scheme > >> >> ex: image:symbol:success (for the success symbol) >> >> 2) Use the existing silk icon library and be able to reference all icons >> using their file names as the symbol name. > > I'm -0 for file name. As you say below, I think generic names > independent from the underlying icon library are better.
Just to be clear: when I said file name I meant file name without the extension of course. Thanks -Vincent >> For ex, image:symbol:thumb_up >> > >> 3) Modify the Box macro to accept a ResourceReference as its image parameter >> so that all valid image resource references can be specified (including the >> new symbol/icon scheme). > > +1 > >> >> WDYT? >> >> This will solve the emoticon/symbol need + the generic way of adding a box >> with any symbol. >> >> Open questions: >> A) Do we need to handle icon size? If so, how? (answer: with an image >> parameter) >> B) Do we want to expose all silk icons? What if we use another library later >> on, will we be able to support all existing silk symbols? Thus, do we need >> to pick a subset and settle on names independent from the underlying library? >> > >> For A) IMO we don't need it now and we can always use an image param later >> on if need be. >> For B) I'm tempted to think that a set of well-known symbols independent >> from the underlying library is better (but more work since we need to define >> that set and the names). > > +1 > > Thanks, > Marius > >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent >> >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
