FYI I have started: http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/XWiki+Icon+Set Do not hesitate to comment on this (on the name & the icons I have chosen) and to contribute (edit > wiki).
And I am also designing a page in the wiki that lists all these icons: http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-11388 (with mockups) I don't know if it will be in XWiki 6.3 though. Thanks, 2014-10-02 10:41 GMT+02:00 Marius Dumitru Florea < [email protected]>: > On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Guillaume "Louis-Marie" Delhumeau > <[email protected]> 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. > > The applications we write on top of the XWiki platform can be from any > domain. It's hard to create a list of icons that cover a large number > of domains. Even with Silk, which has a lot of icons, I often couldn't > find a good match for my domain-specific need. Moreover, if you don't > plan to draw new icons, then the XWiki icon set would include only > icons that are common to more icon sets and thus it will be even more > limited (I doubt you want to mix icons from different icon sets). > > The XWiki icon set could work for icons that are used in the XWiki > skin (e.g. standard actions like edit or delete and XWiki entities > like wiki, space, page or attachment). But I'm not convinced it will > be very helpful for an application developer that will look for domain > specific icons. > > Thanks, > Marius > > > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- 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
