Hoi,
The operational word is replace not remove.
Thanks,
Gerard
2009/6/30 Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>
> 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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