Hoi.
At the Open Translation Tools conference last week we talked about pictures
and icons in a user interface. I learned that some of the "obvious" symbols
like a magnifying glass are not appropriate in other cultures. So I am
completely in favour of integrating images in the UI but PLEASE allow for
internationalisation and the corresponding localisation to remove images
when there is a need.
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/6/30 Brion Vibber <[email protected]>
> Just shooting out a quick thought before I forget again -- it would be
> helpful in a number of places to be able to reference "internal"
> software-provided images from wikitext.
>
> A primary example is for help pages and inline explanatory text in parts
> of the UI which we want to be able to customize. This is something
> that's coming up a lot in things the Usability crew is working on --
> folding the wiki markup cheat sheet into mini-help pages accessible from
> the editor, having screen shots for skins and features so users can see
> what things are about before enabling them, etc.
>
> One "simple" implementation could be to slip in a custom FileRepo, so
> they could be referred to just like other images:
>
> [[Image:help-markup-example-thumbnail.jpg]]
>
> To be slightly more complex, we could give them a unique sub-namespace
> of some sort, or strip out hardcoded extensions so that types can be
> more flexible.
>
> Skins might want/need to be able to override certain names, too... and
> we might consider about needs for localized images -- whether RTL/LTR
> only or actually making translations available.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> -- brion
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