Only risk is that it works so well that plugin maintainers don't feel the
need to change anything ;) I guess we can always crawl the repos for
plugins that use img and open a generic ticket for each (or something like
that).




On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 4:56 AM, Tom Fennelly <tom.fenne...@gmail.com> wrote:

>  On 07/06/2014 16:17, Daniel Beck wrote:
>
> On 07.06.2014, at 13:14, domi <d...@fortysix.ch> <d...@fortysix.ch> wrote:
>
>
>  I'm sure plugins which do not look nice with the new style will be changed 
> soon.
>
>  It'd be best if core provided CSS/JS equivalent images (it doesn't need to 
> use them itself) so plugins referencing these resources would automatically 
> inherit the new design as much as possible. They could then gradually adopt 
> use of CSS/JS instead of images when it makes sense.
>
> Forcing all plugins that use affected core resources to choose between 
> looking outdated and requiring the latest and greatest as minimum compatible 
> version would be a bad idea.
>
>  Maybe we could do this:
>
>    1. Provide CSS based icons (I think we can eliminate the Javascript
>    completely).
>     2. Migrate core Jenkins to use the CSS based icons.  We've already
>    done this on our branch.
>     3. Provide a plugin that can be added to perform the JS
>    screen-scraping hacks to transform non Jenkins core icon <img>s (e.g. from
>    plugins) to the new CSS style.
>
> I think this would encourage plugin maintainers to migrate to the new CSS
> resources (because their plugins will have the old style by default), while
> at the same time provide an interm option for people to have the new style
> throughout their Jenkins install.
>
> wdyt?
>
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