[TYPO3-dev] generated icons

[Martin Kutschker]

ben van 't ende [netcreators] schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> I remember from way back when ...., that TYPO3 features the possibility to
> generate the state as an overlay on icons like hidden, timed etc. For some
> reason it is stuck in my head that this was not used, but that all icons are
> made by hand. Or that they where generated one time and included in the TYPO3
> source.
> 
> I just saw it had something to do with GDlib with gif-support: "Until version
> 3.6.0 TYPO3 has automatically calculated new versions of database icons when
> needed by the system. Thus you needed to supply only one icon - all variations
> would be automatically generated and stored in typo3temp/. However this auto
> generation depended on GDlib with gif-support and that has been a well known
> problem for many years since not everyone has access to these features."
> 
> Does anyone know what the deal with this is now? There is no GIF patent anymore
> if I am correct. Could this feature be enabled by default again?

In theory yes. But the layout/size of classic and t3skin icons varies 
much. Addtionally ext developers didn't stick to the sizes of the 
"default" icons so the result may not look very well.

Note also that there are many states (hidden, user access, start/stop 
time) which in theory could be combined. Unfortunately the designers of 
t3skin did not have the auto-generating icon feature in mind when 
creating their icon set. To do them justice: the skinning API of TYPO3 
is too poor to made this an easy job.

To sum it up, I would reenable this feature only if there was a 
rethinking of how the feature should work and what is requested of a 
complying icons set and what is expected of an extension developer.

Masi