[kepler-dev] Additional cleanup of icons for impending release.

[Dan Higgins]

Kevin & Matthew,
    Moving icons out of the kepler-configs.jar to their own jar seems 
like a good idea to me. Especially since I proposed earlier to get rid 
of the kepler-configs.jar anyway to make it easier to edit config files 
and sample workflows.

Dan

Matthew Brooke wrote:

>Kevin -
>
>The relative path to the SVG files is a temporary measure only. The icon 
>files have not yet been added to the kepler cvs module, since they are 
>not enabled by default, which, in turn, is because there is an 
>outstanding bug to reduce the SVG file sizes first ("outstanding", as in 
>"unfinished", not as in "wonderful"...).
>
>When the SVG files are reduced in size (currently ~130 files @ ~500kB 
>each), they can be added to the kepler tree, and their base path can be 
>changed by simply editing a setting in uiSettings.properties.
>
>The thumbnail icons are already added to the kepler-configs jar by the 
>build, which is why they already have a classpath-relative locator 
>(/actorthumbs/*-sm.gif) which is of the form you are suggesting.
>
>I do like your suggestion of having a dedicated icons jar - this would 
>enable users to swap out the entire icon set if they need to do so (and 
>if they have other icon sets available, of course...). I don't know the 
>build well enough to know what else is currently in the 
>kepler-configs.jar - maybe this is already a similar beast?
>
>Tim had volunteered to do the SVG file-size reduction, but he will be 
>unable to do it before 24th Feb. If anyone else has some free time to do 
>this before then, and some XSLT or Perl skills to show off, have at it :-)
>
>m
>
>
>Kevin Ruland wrote:
>  
>
>>I noticed that the _svgIcon attribute is assigned some relative filename 
>>like:
>>
>>../kepler-docs/dev/usability/graphics/svg/basic-actor.svg
>>
>>and the _thumbnailRasterIcon an absolute filename like:
>>
>>/actorthumbs/basic-actor-sm.gif
>>
>>I suspect these are both loaded use the class loader via 
>>getResourceAsStream() or something, but it makes sense to me that we 
>>distribute all these resources consistantly.  We should make a single 
>>jar ( kepler-icons.jar ?) which contains all of them and use some 
>>consistant naming like:
>>
>>/thumbs/basic-actor-sm.gif
>>/svg/basic-actor.svg
>>
>>Or even:
>>
>>/basic-actor-sm.gif
>>/basic-actor.svg
>>
>>If the names won't clash without the directory name.  I suspect the 
>>names do not clash.
>>
>>This has one additional benefit that to change all the icons, you just 
>>need to drop in a different jar.
>>
>>Kevin
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