[TYPO3-dev] Suggestions for triggering BE sprite generation

[Xavier Perseguers]

Hi,

> This is a process. Now you will get technical issues. Have a look to
> your install tool where image checks happen. Do you see that images
> generated correctly there? I don't. I have three separate machines under
> hand and none of them generates images properly in the Install tool. All
> three machines use the same command and all three results look
> different. Are you sure you can make sprite generation identical for all
> ImageMagick versions out there and all GD versions? Who will fix bugs
> when sprites are generated incorrectly? Will you? :)

I agree here!

> I like simplicity. I do not like unnecessary complexity, especialy if it
> is made because it is technically cool. Sprites generation is
> technically cool but it is worthless in terms of having a real goal
> behind it. Therefore I strongly against it.

The only thing I would find great with a sprite generator would be for skin designers. For skin users, it does not make any advantage to have it automatically generated but it will certainly lead to 
additional problems with the proper server configuration to have, as you said.

However I don't believe that skin designers will have a real problem of creating their sprite themselves or using some "official"/"recommended" generator.

As such, I would suggest to start with a static sprite included with every skin and if we find out this would be possible to highly enhance the process with a sprite generator, then we may consider 
implementing this feature.

-- 
Xavier Perseguers
http://xavier.perseguers.ch/en