On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Guillaume "Louis-Marie" Delhumeau < gdelhum...@xwiki.com> 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. > An improvement to this would be to provide also a color in the mapping. Being a font icon set, from CSS is very easy to give a blue or a green color to the icon (if as you said the developer needed the color difference). > > 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. > IMO we really need this list because without it I don't think we can create an easy UI that can change the icon for the IconThemes. Just like we have specific variables in ColorThemes, the same we will have a finit list of standard icons that we use across the wiki (and as you said that we support). Related to this topic I started a very very long time a go a study of icons used inside XWiki, you can see some informations here http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Standards/Icons According to the study and regarding the convention we will need something like: A. 'entity' B. 'action' C. 'entity-action' D. 'entity-subtype' ... ? Example: A. 'wiki', 'space, 'page', 'attachment', 'comment', etc. B. 'add/create', 'delete/remove', 'edit', 'copy', etc. C. 'comment-add', 'page-add', 'user-delete', etc. D. 'arrow-down', 'user-disabled', 'page-zip', etc. Maybe we should add also a prefix, like 'icon' or 'theme-icon' if we think in the future we might have something like 'theme-{icon|color|etc.}' although might be longer. Thanks, Caty > > 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 (gdelhum...@xwiki.com) > Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS > Committer on the XWiki.org project > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > devs@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
