[TYPO3-hci] [TYPO3-core] FYI: fixed bug 5047

[Martin Kutschker]

Dmitry Dulepov schrieb:
> Martin Kutschker wrote:
>> Ingo Renner schrieb:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> FYI: I just fixed  5047 (no-brainer)
>>
>> Hm, you didn't care to read my comment, do you? And where? Trunk 
>> and/or TYPO3_4-1?
>>
>> Ok, here's my comment which I also presented to the HCI group (cross 
>> post):
>>
>> Don't repeat the obvious (the file extension) in the icon. Instead use 
>> a set of icons to represent the type of the document. We could group 
>> the documents like this and have generic icons for each type (must of 
>> course be skinnable in BE and - separately - in FE):
> 
> MP3 are often represented with MP3 letters in icons. I see no problem 
> with this particular icon. And I think it is especially good that icon 
> for MP3 is distinct. I would also be much more happy to see separate 
> icons for wav, wma and other formats because it helps to recognize them 
> much quicker. Icons are larger than file extension and all in the same 
> line while extensions are in different position.
> 
> I do not think we should use the same icon for particular file types 
> (audio, visdeo, etc) but if we could make they look similar and distinct 
> at the same time - this would be great.

We use currently colours which doesn't seem to be that obvious. 
Otherwise you should have noticed ;-)

The idea of the type icons was to remove the burden to create an icon 
for every single extension. But it seems I'm the only one who doesn't 
like them.

Masi