[TYPO3-project-4-3] Inconsistent icon overlays for start and stop date

[Uschi Renziehausen]

Hi folks,

currently the same icon is used for all scheduled states you can produce by filling in the the start and stop fields 
look the same. We are using different files, but the icons look the same. While in principle you can solve this issue by 
producing different looking icons there is one issue which can only be resolved by coding.

Editors should be informed about the following three states via different icons:

1) item is currently visible (green clock)
2) item is not visible anymore (red clock)
3) item will be visible in the future (light green clock)


Unfortunately you can only reflect the third state via an icon if both the start and stop date are set to the future, 
because then the system will use an icon with the suffix '__tf'. But if only the the start date is set to the future, 
the icon with the suffix __t is shown, means in this case we have the same icon for 'not visible anymore' and 'will be 
visible in the future'.

Can we perhaps change that behaviour, so that if only the start date is set and the start time is in the future the icon 
with __tf is shown? Basically this is an usability issue, so I made it one on forge [1], but as it needs coding I posted 
it here to find out whether it is feasible for 4.3

Kind regards, Uschi


[1] http://forge.typo3.org/issues/show/3464