On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> 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> > > ex: image:symbol:success (for the success symbol)
+1 for image:icon > > 2) Use the existing silk icon library and be able to reference all icons > using their file names as the symbol name. > > For ex, image:symbol:thumb_up +0, we already rely on this library a lot and I'm not sure there are serious alternatives (ie. open source libs with that much 16x16px icons). It feels a bit hackish to have a long term dependency on the silk naming scheme but I have the feeling that it's becoming a de facto standard for web icons. > > > 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) Not needed imho: - icons are pixel art and are likely to look very bad when resized - we can do it with generic (%%) parameters right ? > 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? > Same as above. > 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). > If there was an initiative like the freedesktop icon naming scheme (http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html) for the web I'd indeed give my +1 to use it. But AFAIK there's none for the moment, we could start one and try to gather multiple OSS icons set and build a subset ... but it seems like a lot of work for our needs. Thanks, JV. _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
