[TYPO3-dev] New Look BE

[Steffen Kamper]

Hi,

Graham Solomon schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> I just thought I would mention this as it took me about half an hour 
> before I realised what the issue was.
> 
> I just upgraded one of our test websites to TYPO3 4.4 RC2 to checkout 
> the new features and test a few things, when I did so the BE was being 
> rendered without any CSS and therefore unusable, at first I thought it 
> was an issue with the compression so I spent some time on that, adding 
> the new .htaccess rules, nothing worked.
> 
> I was about to give up, but had a thought, as we were using the 
> "classic" skin, not "t3skin" if that could be the issue, I loaded t3skin 
> via the local conf, deleted temp_* files and everything worked fine...
> 
> We have been using the old skin as our users are not the best at coping 
> with change, so every upgrade we would not install t3skin, I would be 
> suprised if we were the only ones, I think there needs to be a check 
> somewhere for this, perhaps the install tool upgrade page?
> 
> Now that there is no fallback for sites which don't use t3skin this 
> could cause admins some headaches.
> 
> 

no - t3skin is needed. This is stated in NEWS.txt and covered by update 
wizard.
If noone read NEWS.txt we can't help if it need hours ;)

vg Steffen