Item1497: Provide semantic icons

Implement IconPlugin.

-- StephaneLenclud

I like the sound of this, i.e. as we have two huge icon sets available: FamFamFamContrib and FugueIconsContrib. The logical consequence is that you'll have an extensive mapping between semantic icons and physical icons. Alas, to create these kind of mappings is a horrid task. How can this be solved?

(adding myself and you, Stephane, to waiting for to get emails on any change on this topic)

-- MichaelDaum - 23 Apr 2009

Haven't work on that much since the first check-in. First prototype was using configure to store actual icons markup. That's obviously wrong as we have seen with CssPlugin. I'm planning on using a skin template like icons.tmpl . Hope you like the idea Michael. I have performance concerns though regarding skin template. Will a skin template with a couple of hundreds DEF impact performance?

-- StephaneLenclud - 28 Apr 2009

Maybe we should ask Mr. Icons

-- MichaelDaum - 28 Apr 2010

As you can see from the trunk DocumentGraphics topic, I've made a mapping for FamFamFam, and its all going to be shipped with foswiki 1.1.

The foswiki 1.1 core also adds support for icon mapping to be defined in a tmpl file - though this doesn't give us backwards compatibility - see the icons.tmpl file in the FamFamFamContrib - I'll be documenting this in the coming weeks.

and y, we desperatly need someone to write a decent benchmarking tool, which can be run as trivially as the unit test system.

-- SvenDowideit - 10 May 2010

Excellent. So what is left to motivate an IconPlugin?

-- MichaelDaum - 11 May 2010

if I've done my job then maybe some additional or better mappings than the ones we inherited.. - I'll leave this for Stephane to decide

-- SvenDowideit - 11 May 2010

As on FYI, this plugin shows up as an installable plugin for foswiki 1.0.9+ (at least) and if installed and enabled breaks the built-in %ICON% functionality.

-- KiltBear - 15 Sep 2010

If semantic icons are now provided by the core then we can close this task and mark the IconPlugin as deprecated.

-- StephaneLenclud - 22 Sep 2010