Re: collective.mtrsetup in core ?

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Rok Garbas <[email protected]> wrote:

> since we are really trying to make default theme extra slim, awesome and modern
> in all aspects of it, i would be sad to see that we would use images for icons.

+1 -- this would an an improvement over the current mix of sprites for
built-in types and images for add-on types.

Could we treat what getIcon() returns as semantic cues for a portion
of the HTML classname?

Maybe allow for add-ons to ship their own CSS and glyph fonts (or
image replacements -- is there any way to provide a
backward-compatibility polyfill to make-at-runtime an image
replacement for add-ons not yet participating in this regime)?

> we could have icons by applying some css using bootstrap 3 glyphicons[1] as
> shown here with font-awesome[2].

This stuff looks good, could we have some standardized/documented
process to add additional icons to the font resource in incremental
ways over time?

> i would prefer more optimized solution and future proof then going for some
> fancy looking icons. i mean fast will always be sexy :)

I like the idea of shipping a font with glyphs for built-in-types,
common file and/or mime types.  Could there still be some way to
support backward-compatibility for many add-ons with types still using
image-based icons?

Add-ons providing content types might follow markup conventions used
by core, but would provide their own CSS and (font | png | svg)
resources necessary for text, image replacements.

Diazo themes could implement their own schemes for these with far more
graceful results than overriding 16x16 PNGs (e.g. a theme using larger
SVG icons with CSS image replacement, falling back to the glyphs at
same larger size when no SVG resource was available).

Sean

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