On 10/19/2010 06:57 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> > > ex: image:symbol:success (for the success symbol)
+1 for 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, -1 for hard-coding silk. See my other mail about IconTheme. > 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 at the moment. Silk only comes in one size, and pixel art does not scale well. > 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? I think it would be better to allow all icon names, with no guarantee of availability. On top of that, we should define a set of standard names that SHOULD be present in any icon theme. > 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). -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
