This sounds like a good idea. About the naming, shouldn't we use a prefix like font-awesome? I know this is kind of different context but anyway, I just launch the idea.
On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 03:59:01PM +0200, Guillaume "Louis-Marie" Delhumeau wrote: > Hi. > > In XWiki 6.2, we have introduced the Icon Theme Application [1]. The idea > was to be able to use Font Awesome in the Applications Panel without > breaking all extensions. So we have a mapping between silk icons (that the > extensions used until now) and the font awesome equivalents [2]. > > But, of course, the mapping is currently incomplete. For 2 reasons: > 1/ It takes time to make it perfect (so feel free to improve it, directly > on the wiki page! [2]) > 2/ Some silk icons have no equivalent. > > Where a silk equivalent is missing, the Icon Theme Application > automatically failbacks to the Silk icon, so something appears. Of course, > it does not look very good when all icons are monochromatic except only one > [3]. > > When there is no equivalent, we could have a strategy to not failback on > Silk but instead using the most similar icon in Font Awesome. For example > http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/resources/icons/silk/flag_blue.png and > http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/resources/icons/silk/flag_green.png can both be > mapped to http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icon/flag/ . But it > would be problem if an extension use both icons to represent 2 different > actions. In my opinion, we should not do this and let the failback-process > happens. > > But actually, having this mapping should be only used for backward > compatibility. What I want to propose is about the future. We should not > use the silk icons anymore with the hope that it will be correctly mapped > in other icon themes. > > What I want to create, is our own list of icons. The XWiki icon set. But I > am not talking about drawing new icons. I am talking about create an > official mapping for the icons we support and that have a mapping in all > existing icon themes. > > For example, I have create the "wiki" icon, which is mapped to > http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/resources/icons/silk/world.png in silk and on > http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icon/globe/ in font-awesome. > > I believe we need to create that list and create a documentation about it > somewhere (maybe in a page integrated in XE, but at least on the extension > page). So when a user create an application, she no longer chose an icon > from the Silk collection but from our own list. > > If we agree on that principle, we also need to agree on a convention about > the name of our icons. I propose: 'some-name' which means everything in > lower case and words separated by '-'. > > I hope you'll like the idea. > > Thanks, > > > [1] > http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Icon+Theme+Application > (The Icon Theme Application) > [2] http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/IconSet (The mapping) > [3] http://tof.canardpc.com/view/debc907e-d1ee-4e01-baff-dc740801e68d.jpg > (Problem) > > -- > Guillaume Delhumeau ([email protected]) > Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS > Committer on the XWiki.org project > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs -- Jean Simard [email protected] Research engineer at XWiki SAS http://www.xwiki.com Committer on the XWiki.org project http://www.xwiki.org _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
