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Re: [Tiki-devel] Tiki Flags
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From: Gary Cunningham-L. <ga...@cu...> - 2017-03-21 05:57:30
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Sorry, I sent a message that I had saved as a draft, without finishing it. This is what I meant to send: For context, I think this came up because of the retro look of Tiki's current flags when used in the site header to choose a language. This is probably because they are so small on today's higher-resolution displays and because main site graphics generally are bigger than they used to be. Also icons like this are often styled one way or another. On the other hand, sometimes the flags need to be essentially text line height, when used in selectors, etc. So the display flexibility of an SVG solution is appealing, but it does come at a cost since the display size would have to be specified for each instance via CSS. It would work much like the font icons, I think. I responded to Bernard that replacing the current image-based method for an SVG method wouldn't be cost effective for me to do because I'd pretty much have to learn the process as I did it. So if this does seem like a good change to make, I'll leave it for someone else, if it needs to be done quickly. -- Gary On 3/21/2017 2:46 PM, Gary Cunningham-Lee wrote: > For context, this came up because of the rather retro look of Tiki's > current flags, probably because they are so small on today's > higher-resolution displays and because graphics generally are bigger > than they used to be. > > I think the display flexibility of an SVG solution is appealing, but it > does come at a cost since the flag icons don't have a set size; this > would have to be specified for each display instance. It would work much > like the icons, it seems to me. And I don't know if there is much need > for flexibility if the flag images are always displayed as little icons > > On 3/20/2017 7:29 PM, Jean-Marc Libs wrote: >> They look nice and the license is good, but they only have country flags >> and we have more than country flags in Tiki. >> >> We also have Europe, United_Nations_Organization, world, unknown, maybe >> others flags. I suppose these can be added easily. >> >> Actually, having so many flags is a problem when we create a country >> selector. Maybe we could take this occasion and think of some method for >> restricting the flags list like we can already do with the translations >> list? >> The one good thing about our current flag system is, it's very simple, >> fast and it takes very little resources. Let's not over-engineer when we >> add flexibility. >> >> Cheers, >> J-M >> >> On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Gary Cunningham-Lee >> <ga...@cu... <mailto:ga...@cu...>> wrote: >> >> The set I linked to has an MIT license. >> >> On 3/19/2017 11:46 PM, Torsten wrote: >> > Hi Bernard, >> > >> > please consider LGP or MIT license! >> > >> > Regards, >> > Torsten >> > >> > On 19.03.2017 13:13, Gary Cunningham-Lee wrote: >> >> I didn't look into the implementation details yet, but there's >> also an >> >> SVG solution here: http://flag-icon-css.lip.is/ >> >> >> >> So these are scalable, etc., similar to the icon font sets. (They can >> >> also be displayed normally or round or with shadows, etc. since >> they're >> >> styled with CSS. ) >> >> >> >> -- Gary >> >> >> >> On 3/19/2017 9:00 PM, Bernard Sfez wrote: >> >>> Hello, >> >>> >> >>> Tiki flags are used in trackers (country field), in language >> switch and >> >>> more. >> >>> >> >>> BUT (like our smileys) Tiki flags look really 80s ! >> >>> >> >>> They are really small, old rectangle fashion, etc. >> >>> >> >>> Will it be ok to change them for a modern version (free usage) >> of flags >> >>> icon. >> >>> I googled a bit and round or square seem to be today’s trend. >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> Extending that and to have everyone super happy, about things >> like flags >> >>> or icons, it should be possible to customize them by adding new >> set in >> >>> the themes/mytheme folder. >> >>> I see there is already a "icons" folder (?). >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> Bernard Sfez | bsfez.com <http://bsfez.com> <https://bsfez.com/> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >>> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >> >>> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> _______________________________________________ >> >>> TikiWiki-devel mailing list >> >>> Tik...@li... >> <mailto:Tik...@li...> >> >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tikiwiki-devel >> <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tikiwiki-devel> >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >> >> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> TikiWiki-devel mailing list >> >> Tik...@li... >> <mailto:Tik...@li...> >> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tikiwiki-devel >> <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tikiwiki-devel> >> > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >> > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >> > _______________________________________________ >> > TikiWiki-devel mailing list >> > Tik...@li... >> <mailto:Tik...@li...> >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tikiwiki-devel >> <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tikiwiki-devel> >> > >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >> _______________________________________________ >> TikiWiki-devel mailing list >> Tik...@li... >> <mailto:Tik...@li...> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tikiwiki-devel >> <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tikiwiki-devel> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TikiWiki-devel mailing list >> Tik...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tikiwiki-devel >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > TikiWiki-devel mailing list > Tik...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tikiwiki-devel > |