Open laeubi opened 3 months ago
Thank you for letting me know @laeubi
Trick with fragment should work for simple cases, but I never tried it for more complex setups. For example, if we have an image coming from NLS fragment, will it be possible to replace this image from another fragment?
Fragments can only enhance but not replace things, so if one want NLS support one needs to support NLS aware image path (like we already did for different zoom levels).
TBH I don't know if Eclipse Babel is ever going to supply NL images with its NL features.
But let's imagine it does so, and we have org.eclipse.images
bundle + org.eclipse.images.nls.something
image fragment
Will it be possible to customize an image with custom fragment in this case?
The easiest would be to simply replace the image in either org.eclipse.images
or org.eclipse.images.nls.something
as these are just jar zip files, instead of nls I more thought about e.g.m2e shipping its icons in an org.eclipse.images.m2e
fragment, so in code one can always use the url platform:/bundle:org.eclipse.images/some/shared/icon.png
Of course one could think of (and I used that in one of my products) that one first looks for the custom name and then for the common name, that then will allow easily to have some "iconpack" fragments, e.g assume we have the following icon URL used icon:/org.eclipse.images/icons/pde/plugin.png
(note the initial icon
prefix!).
The URL Stream handler for "icon" then can look at the org.eclipse.images
bundle and first search an entry with /custom/pde/plugin.png
if no such item exits, it looks for /pde/plugin.png
entry, then such an icon can be overridden by providing a fragment that contains an icon in the folder /custom/pde/plugin.png
... one could even think about instead of using "custom" to have it using a "theme-id" instead that is a system property...
There was recently a discussion about images reuse currently we copy images from
org.eclipse.images
to the individual bundles (and others do as well).If we would deploy the
org.eclipse.images
to central it could beThis would then even allow one to exchange the icons of eclipse quite easy, as one can simply just swap out that single bundle with a custom one. If I write a own plugin and then add my icons as a fragment of
org.eclipse.images
, then this would even work for custom written plugins.FYI @ruspl-afed