2014-04-24 22:15 GMT+02:00 [email protected] <[email protected]>: > Yes using font-based icons is interesting (BTW > http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icons/ looks richer than > http://www.entypo.com/ to me). > > However, first we need to decide if we wish to support several icon sets > or only have one that can potentially be configured. > > Supporting several icon sets means means introducing a new syntax in XWiki > Syntax 2.2. For example: > > image:icon:<set name>:<icon name> > > Examples: > * image:icon:silk:accept > * image:icon:fa:home > > Now that makes it harder to reference an icon as it means more typing so > we could also imagine a configurable mapping (defined in xwiki.properties) > as follows: > > <prefix>.icon.mappings = accept = silk:accept > <prefix>.icon.mappings = home = fa:home > > As a user you’d write: > image:icon:accept > image:icon:home > > (technically we’d check the number of “:” after “icon”. If 2 then it’s a > named icon set. If 1 then it’s the default mapping) > > This would have the advantage of allowing mixing icon sets easily without > being verbose and with this we would even be able to rewire icons without > changing page content (for example image:icon:accept could be rewired from > the silk icon set to the fa icon set’s fa:check). > > Now, we could also decide that we don’t introduce the icon set notation > and that we only keep the icon:<icon name> format and that everything has > to go through the configurable mapping. > > Or we could decide that we only ever want one icon set at a time, define > properly all the icon names we wish to have and allow configuring the > mapping of these name to a an icon set. >
Or... it could even depends on the skin. Colibri uses silk and Flamingo font-based icons. > > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent > > On 24 Apr 2014 at 20:38:04, Sergiu Dumitriu ([email protected]) wrote: > > +1 for a font-based icon set, but before deciding on a specific one, we > should make sure that we have a replacement for all the icons that we're > currently using. After a very quick look, it doesn't look like the > entypo font covers enough of our needs. Silk doesn't either, to be fair... > > On 04/24/2014 01:03 PM, Yacine Kebir wrote: > > Hello, > > > > i have an idea concerning the icons of base skin colibri or others, we > > should integrate "Entypo" on the skin ans delete all image icons, the > > advantage is : > > 1- we win the chargement time of pages > > 2- reduce the number of code lines in the code. > > 3- we can add, edit , put color and change the sise of this icons > > 4- the skin of this icons are in flat design and we can put it in any > form > > 5- its free for any users > > for more information http://www.entypo.com/ > > wordpress have just integrate this solution > > > > Yacine > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
