On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Gerard Meijssen<[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikitech-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >
This is very true. I don't see any reason why the file repo designed around this cannot handle such scenarios. Either that, or the Language classes a way to load localized images when needed (which the file repo could easily sit on top of) -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
