From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Sep 11 2002 - 00:15:48 EDT
--- Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net> wrote: > On
Tuesday 10 September 2002 23:40, Andrew Dunbar
> wrote:
> > --- Dom Lachowicz <doml@appligent.com> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, September 10, 2002, at 09:44 PM,
> Andrew
> > > Dunbar wrote:
> > Our system is a little haphazard whereby we
> created
> > icons with whatever name we like and reference
> them
> > individually in i10n files.
> > For example, the Russian bold icon is
> > tb_text_bold_rus.xpm whereas the Spanish bold icon
> is
> > tb_text_bold_N.xpm
> >
> > A slick approach would use a fallback system based
> on
> > the locale with standard filenames:
> > tb_text_bold_ru.xpm (Russian)
> > tb_text_bold_es.xpm (Spanish)
> >
> > We can trivially extend this to regions:
> > tb_text_bold_en_us.xpm (US English)
> > tb_text_bold_en_gb.xpm (UK English)
> > (I couldn't think of an actual example)
> >
> > And further to:
> > tb_lists_bullets_ar_eg.xpm (Egyptian Arabic)
> > tb_lists_bullets_ar.xpm (any Arabic)
> > tb_lists_bullets_rtl.xpm (any right-to-left
> lang)
> > tb_lists_bullets.xpm (any other lang)
> >
> > Anyway that's an ideal design for some day in the
> > future. No need to drop everything and rush into
> it
> > (:
>
> There should be a way to share the icons. The bold F
> (for Fett) works for
> Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish as well as German
> (but not Dutch - they spell
> it "vet"). A bold G works for several Romance
> languages. Russian, Belarusian,
> and Ukrainian probably could share several icons.
Quite true. Wed would probably want a table
where we'd pass "bullets" and "ar" and get back
"tb_lists_bullets_rtl.xpm" or "bold" and "sv" and
get back "tb_text_bold_F.xpm".
A layer providing some logical inderection of some
kind
anyway.
Andrew.
> phma
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