[TYPO3-hci] Why t3skin sucks right now?

[Dmitry Dulepov [typo3]]

Hi!

Benjamin Mack wrote:
> me again. I'm taking the momentum right now to ask you: Why are you 
> using a different skin than t3skin? We want to make t3skin awesome for 
> 4.3, so that we can get rid of oldskin (make it a TER ext), change 
> t3skin that much that it's going to be awesome, so I really NEED your 
> input here.

I think we should leave t3skin as t3skin and create a skin with a new name. Or rename old t3skin to t3skin_old. This would be right.

> My downsides (I'm still using it):
> 
> - Mixture of completely different iconsets
> - The background grey is a bit cold and the contrast it not 
> well-thought-out

I like the color more than any other existing skin. I think it is a question of personal taste :) I like either cool and quiet blue colors or bright orange/green style like in Jens old HCI slides (I just love those!) :) 

> - It feels slower than oldskin

There are _.htaccess files in that sysext. They are specially made to speed up the skin significally. Try them.

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