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

[Benjamin Mack]

Hey Masi, Ingo and Dmitry,

what's the status on this?

Otherwise I'd like to set the default to "0" for 4.3 (or even 4.2.1) 
until we come up with a new cool solution... Because the option is STILL 
set to "1" by default. It sucks.

greetings,
benni.
-SDG-

Martin Kutschker wrote:
> 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 start, stop, etc) is obsolete and should be replaced by something else.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.