[TYPO3-dev] Suggestions for triggering BE sprite generation

[Steffen Gebert]

Am 29.01.2010, 17:28 Uhr, schrieb Dmitry Dulepov  
<dmitry.dulepov+t3ml at gmail.com>:

> No, no! :) Developers do not generate icons :) We have Jens Hoffman, who  
> is supposed to provide icons. He is a good designer and he knows how to  
> work with layers in Photoshop. It is his job officially to make TYPO3  
> UIs.

But it's really difficult to reach Jens. I have had a first-hand  
experience the last days, asking for the current status of the new icon  
set. This is a problem, when you mustn't create icons for your new  
feature, but the guy who should do it, has no time / is not capable /  
whatever (not ment in offense, Jens!)

André Wartman, who is also a designer, was with us at T3UXW09 and  
continued Jens' work with some new icons.
He is willing to create more new icons, when needed. Of course, they  
should be approved by Jens. This announcement will follow again with the  
new icon set, hopefully coming this weekend (already approved by Jens;  
only depends on my laziness).

>> * provide *any* tool, to do this automatically, like [1]: Give it all  
>> images and get the sprite + CSS back. This tool maybe could be in  
>> extdeveval or a backend module or whatever.
>
> Extdeveval at client machines? :) No go. Extdeveval is for developers.

Ah.. this discussion really costs some hair :-[
Sometimes I wish to have skype calls instead of writing 20 mails :)

Of course not on client machines! But on developer machines, which want to  
create a sprite for their own extension (e.g. place all icons in  
EXT:mykey/images/icons/ and extdeveval creates the static (!!) sprite in  
the extension directory images/sprite.png or whatever).

Steffen