We should link the docs a bit better, but that does kind of exist:

    http://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-definitions.icons.html

Also, we should probably improve those icons, hah.

I think the tooltip might be confusing like you say, but if you want to try
out the tooltip and see if it is awesome, go for it!



On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 2:09 AM, Sankaranarayanan Viswanathan <
rationalrev...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The browser tool shows vocabularies and words with different icons, and
> I thought it would be nice if we could show what the icons meant
> somewhere (or maybe the icons are already described somewhere and I
> couldn't find it). The icons themselves are present in
> basic:definitions.icons. Some implementation ideas I had were:
>
> (a) Have a legend article and put a link in vocabs-docs. Maybe the
> definitions.icons doc could be modified to include a legend and a link
> to this put out on the vocabs-docs (e.g. a link named "Icon legend"
> under the existing "Vocabulary authors" link
>
> (b) Show a tool-tip on hover over the icon. The tool-tip text could be
> derived from the icon file name. But, this might look misleading for the
> "open-vocab" icon since the user could be scratching his head expecting
> how to "open vocab" ;)
>
> Let me know what sounds most reasonable and I can submit a pull request
> if we think having this makes sense.
>
> Thanks,
> Sankar
>
>
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