At the moment the imagemap extension uses a hard coded information icon as link
to the image description page.
I propose to allow user-defined images as information icons too:
<imagemap>
Image:...
rect ...
desc bottom-right [[Image:icon.png|20px]]
</imagemap>
Aadvantages:
(cyrillic, CJK, ...)
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
For this kind of UI element I'd strongly prefer to keep it consistent. I don't
see much reason for per-use customization in this way, and the per-language
issues would not be very well served by this.
ayg wrote:
I expect languages that don't use question marks might prefer a different icon.
It seems best to consider allowing different icons as part of i18n for the
extension. Per-use, maybe not.
michaeldaly wrote:
There are two internationally used information symbols that are language
independent. The italic lower-case i on a blue background and the circle with a
question mark contained.
If there is a real need for alternative, language dependent versions, perhaps a
set of them should be distributed with the extension and a reference added to
the i18n file to convert from language to symbol - e.g.:
'en' => array(
'imagemap_icon' => 'desc-20.jpg', ...
'xx' => array(
'imagemap_icon' => 'xxdesc-20.jpg', ...
Something tells me the languages that would not recognize the "i" or ? symbols
as used in airports and such would be rare.
This bug is over 10 years old, so I think it's time we reach a decision on it...
I agree with brion that this should not be over-ridable at the imagemap instance level (as it would lead to a lack of consistency). If there are languages where the current icon should not be used, please identify those languages and what icon would be more recognizable for them (in a specific bug for that language). As mentioned by michaeldaly, it is unclear that such languages even exist. As far as contrast, the current icon has a grey border around it, so it should be viewable even on a blue image. If that doesn't work, we should improve the existing icon.