[TYPO3-v4] Refreshing the sprites of the new BE skin

[Zachary Davis, Cast Iron Coding LLC]

François Suter wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I had trouble viewing the new BE skin properly (lots of missing icons 
> everywhere). I cleared all cache in TYPO3, I manually removed the 
> temp_CACHED* files and also emptied my browser's cache, all to no avail. 
> So I started digging and found the "sprites" folder in "typo3temp". 
> After having deleted it, the sprite got regenerated and I could view the 
> BE properly. Is it normal that I had to delete the sprite manually? Did 
> I miss something?
> 
> Apart from that, it seems to run very nicely. Thanks to all those who 
> put in so much effort.
> 
> Cheers
> 

I had a similar experience to that of François, and I think it points to 
a problem. I downloaded TYPO3 from SVN and did some quick configuration. 
I didn't entirely configure the imageMagick components correctly, and 
when I logged into the backend, I saw broken icons everywhere (I assume 
because sprites couldn't be generated correctly). I went in and fixed 
the imageMagick conf and cleared caches, but icons were still broken. I 
had to go into typo3temp and delete the sprites folder to fix it.

I think that the way this works currently, we're going to risk having 
cases where novice TYPO3 users look at the backend before completely 
configuring imagemagick, which will lead to a case where they have to 
manually delete the sprites (or reinstall the ext, but they won't know 
to do that). Should we consider clearing the sprites folder when the 
backend cache is cleared?

Zach