[TYPO3-core] RFC: #7837: Always generate Icons

[Martin Kutschker]

Ingo Renner schrieb:
> 
>> I'm not completely opposed to it, but IMHO the whole concept of 
>> generation of thoundands of variants of icons (hidden, user acces, 
>> start, stop, etc) is obsolete and should be replaced by something else.
> 
> I don't think so, actually I think it's quite a cool feature.

Aha, Kasper himself isn't so sure and I share his views in this issue. But 
a change should be discussed on hci * (for 4.3 unless you want another late 
change into the Core).

>> If you want reactivate it, but don't remove the GD check (unless you 
>> want to remove all checks in the complete Core and make the installer 
>> check it thoroughly). But I guess that there have been other reasons 
>> than the GD check why it has been disabled. So I expect some 
>> unpleasant surprises :-)
> 
> the reason was the missing gif support I guess

A guess.

Masi

* My idea is to signify only two states hidden and special. The latter 
being anything (user access, start, stop, etc). The icon will have a 
"tool-tip" that lists the exact reason for the state "special". This means 
fewer icin states to remember for the user and easy extension for further 
states without the need to add one more state to the icon set. Granted icon 
generation for the two remaing states would be nice. Fortunately this will 
become much easier.