Re: [e4-dev] Variables Icon Paths

[Marco Descher <marco@xxxxxxxxxx>]

whow, nice! But would we still have the configuration support directly within the e4 tooling?


An 23. Jänner 2014 at 09:53:31, Tom Schindl (tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) schrieb:
>  
> The other radical approach is that we are not setting any image  
> paths
> (in pure e4) anymore and completely rely on CSS.
>  
> Tom
>  
> On 23.01.14 09:49, Tom Schindl wrote:
> > Well finally I think this should be married with the image registry  
> I
> > invented for the e4-tools, which would give us automagic image  
> disposal!
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > On 23.01.14 09:46, Marco Descher wrote:
> >> Ah I see,
> >>
> >> sorry for missing out on that! No, my solution is not dynamic!  
> But I guess it would
> >> not be much of a problem to make it dynamic! What I liked about  
> our approach is, that
> >> it is both possible to access the icons out of the code, and out  
> of the app model. Making
> >> this additionally dynamic would probably cope for every requirement?!  
> >>
> >> Considering your dynamic approach I think that a combined  
> solution would really be great!
> >> Just consider having your dynamic approach also available  
> for Actions and centralized for
> >> the overall application.
> >>
> >> cheers, marco
> >>
> >>
> >> An 23. Jänner 2014 at 09:41:02, Tom Schindl (tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)  
> schrieb:
> >>>
> >>> The main idea is that this is dynamic! I can remember having  
> read
> >>> your
> >>> article but maybe I missed that your solution is dynamic?  
> >>>
> >>> Please note that my proposal does adapt dynamically at runtime  
> >>> so that
> >>> e.g. the ToolItem when becoming disabled will get a different  
> >>> image, if
> >>> an operation is running the parts gets a different icon, ...  
> .
> >>>
> >>> Tom
> >>>
> >>> On 23.01.14 09:36, Marco Descher wrote:
> >>>> Hy Tom,
> >>>>
> >>>> I had a shot on this with a different solution:
> >>>>
> >>>> See EclipseMagazin 2.2013 - i created a bundle adding a new  
> URL
> >>> Handler, namely icon://
> >>>> were I could use static allocations like icon://PERSON  
> which
> >>> worked out quite well! It is
> >>>> extended with a fragment, which allows for easy exchange  
> of
> >>> the complete icon set for the
> >>>> whole application.
> >>>>
> >>>> I think this approach could be extended to create an AddOn  
> managing
> >>> all icons, allowing
> >>>> to address them icon:// style!
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> marco
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> An 23. Jänner 2014 at 09:27:54, Tom Schindl (tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)  
> >>> schrieb:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> While reading an article from Marc Teufel on an Eclipse  
> 4 application
> >>>>> it
> >>>>> reminded me of something I wanted to purpose since some  
> time
> >>> already
> >>>>> (I
> >>>>> also saw a bug flying by to allow one to control the icons  
> via
> >>> CSS!).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Anyways here we go. The idea is fairly simple and already  
> known
> >>>>> from 3.x
> >>>>> where one can use a fixed set of variables in the image paths.  
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'd like to extend this to use all variables of the IEclipseContext  
> >>>>> so
> >>>>> one can write an image URL like this:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> platform:/plugin/icons/${themeId}/${enabled}/img.png  
> >>>>>
> >>>>> What do you think, does this make sense?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Tom
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