On Oct 21, 2010, at 12:48 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > 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.
Sounds good to me. Thanks -Vincent > >> 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). _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
