[TYPO3-dev] New icons to the core or to t3skin?

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

On 2010-01-28 11:50:14 +0200, Steffen Gebert said:
> we (T3UXW09 group 3) will soon provide a new icon set as an RFC, which 
> follows the (pending) new Backend styling guide.
> For icons, this means having a consistent naming scheme.

Both sound great!

> The remaining question is: Where should the icons be placed? Core 
> (typo3/images/icons) or t3skin?
> 
> Background info: The BE stylesheet reorganization will remove all the 
> legacy colors etc. (aka "visuals") from the core and move them to 
> t3skin. This is mostly old stuff from the 3.x skin!

I know that some people do not like t3skin and still use old skin. 
Personally I never could understand this because I think old skin is 
very outdated and look ugly these days.

Just keep in mind that you can have an opposition to forcing t3skin 
from some people (incl. core people).

> Problem is, how usable BE should be, without any installed skin: Should 
> all icons be in place or should only icons for "extension (NOT) 
> installed" be shipped, to be able to install any skin. For sure, nobody 
> will work without any installed skin.

So, some still do :)

t3skin is a default sysext. What happens technically if it is 
uninstalled? Would it be possible to uninstall t3skin and still be able 
to use the Backend to install another skin? Would be Backend usable in 
the short moment when no skin is installed? If yes, I see no problem: 
we provide a default skin, which is installed by default. If somebody 
deinstall it, (s)he does it on purpose and knows what he does, right?

One thing I would emphasize that we I would like all images to be 
static. I dislike the idea to generate images. We already have TS 
parsing at FE and it takes nearly 90% of page generation time, which is 
unacceptably much. I prefer if we generate as little as possible and 
use as much ready content as possible. Skin images look like a static 
content to me. Static content should be static, not generated.

> Like to hear you opinion of this. I'd say: Deadline in 2 days :)

You have mine :)

Thanks to you and the rest of the team for doing this great skinning work! :)

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Dmitry Dulepov
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