[OpenLayers-Dev] why are there 2+ img locations?

[Dejung Gewissler]

Thank you. Indeed it is good.

I did a search for the string ".svg" in the lib folder and found only 
the renderer SVG. So it *seems* that the images in openlayers\art aren't 
used anymore.

Is there a preference among the development folks as to which one of the 
other two they prefer?

I have not created a patch before, but would like to help out by doing 
so. Before I get started, I wanted to get feedback about the location of 
the images. It seems fitting though that the theme folder would hold all 
images related to the style of OpenLayers.

-Dejung

Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 02:41:56PM -0400, Dejung Gewissler wrote:
>   
>> Hi Devs-
>>
>> In trying to better understand OpenLayers and how to customize aspects 
>> of it I came across three different locations for images.
>> These are:
>>     - openlayers\img
>>     - openlayers\theme\default\img
>>     - openlayers\art
>>
>> Does anyone have any insight as to why they live separately?
>> In choosing where to add my own customized images for the panZoom 
>> controls or other toolbars (like editing) I am ambiguous and need help :)
>>     
>
> In the beginning, there was a panzoom control. And it was blue, and we
> said that it was good.
>
> And the art was created in vectors, for changing later: and we saved the
> originals, and it was good.
>
> And then, users came along and asked to change things. So we changed
> portions of the code to use CSS, and it was good.
>
> And the requests got more complex, and so we said "Let there be a Panel
> Control". And it was. And it was good.
>
> And then we created images for hte panel control, which were
> controllable via CSS. And we added them to the directory where the CSS
> skin lived. And it was good.
>
> And then people came along and asked why there were two different way of
> doing things, and we said "Hysterical Raisins"[1], despite it only being
> the sixth day.
>
> And on the 7th day, we rested, and said "Patches welcome" to improve the
> confusion.[2]
>
>
> [1] http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/hysterical-reasons.html
> [2] http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/1400
>
> Regards,
>   

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