[TYPO3-dev] New icons to the core or to t3skin?

[Jigal van Hemert]

Martin Kutschker wrote:
> The difference between a temp/ and a cache/ is in my opinion that any process must (should) cleanup
> any data created in temp/. It should hold only data that went to disk because it couldn't be
> processed in memory. You could clean temp/ any time but I recommend to clean only old/stale files
> unless the system is suspended.

Temporary items should be removed by the application that generated them.

Cache items should also be cleaned up. Garbage collection for a cache 
usually removes the expired items first and if the cache is still too 
large it will usually removed the items which haven't been used for a 
long time (the items haven't been needed for a while, so it is less 
likely that they will become necessary any time soon).

If you regularly remove the items which haven't been used for a long 
time, you will automatically clean up the temporary items which haven't 
been removed.

This is a whole different discussion that the original question of where 
to put the new icons (I was guilty of the same offence by making remarks 
about some icons...).

Anyway, I would love to see a mechanism for generating different icon 
sizes which are saved to a standard location for the core to use. The 
original (vector?) images could live in the skin (and possibly in the 
core for the icons which are shown in the absence of a skin).

Regards, Jigal.