I see. It would be good to find out how many libraries use the liblime-kids set. I don't think that's really necessary though. The complaints I'm getting from my librarians involve the bridge set. The padding is perfect for the npl set, but not for the bridge set. The images interfere with the location because the padding is not enough to accommodate the image. And it doesn't look good.
As nice as it would be to be able to accommodate different sizes of icons, such flexibility is not always the best way to go. In this case we have to consider the use of space in the item cell of the search results table. As I see it the other options are to increase the padding to make room for the larger icons, or have the padding be variable based on the which icon is used for the item type. Increasing the padding would leave excess space around the smaller icons. Having the padding be variable would not be a trivial programming feat in my opinion. Also the item information cells would be a little less uniform in appearance. I'm prepared to increase the padding uniformly to make space for the bridge set. On the other hand I'm not using the liblime-kids set. So it's a small increase. This doesn't seem like the best possible solution to me though. I'm correcting a symptom of the larger problem that the template doesn't know how big the icon is going to be. I would prefer to either have one size of icon or have the item type icons tell the template how much space they need. I'll admit that it is nice to have the larger icons for the kids ( to this end one of my librarians has asked me to increase the font size on the opac ). So, in my opinion, it would be best to have variable padding with the icons. I just don't look forward to trying to code that. I think the best way would be to have it statically set. That way we would save the time it takes to parse the image to find it's width. On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 15:14 -0500, Galen Charlton wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Michael Hafen <mdha...@tech.washk12.org> > wrote: > > I think it would be best to standardize on a size for these images, so > > that the css can be set once and look right. > > I would prefer that we accommodate different sizes for the icons > rather than settle for just one "standard" size. I'm not sure how > many libraries are using the liblime-kids set, but the icons in it are > larger than npl or bridge to support a common design pattern for > childrens' OPACs. > > Regards, > > Galen -- Michael Hafen Systems Analyst and Programmer Washington County School District Utah, USA for Koha checkout http://koha-dev.washk12.org or git://koha-dev.washk12.org/koha _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
