[TYPO3-core] RFC#15079 Feature: TYPO3 misses an SpriteGenerator

[Xavier Perseguers]

Hi,

>>> > - CSS could be even more optimized when all icons of a group do not
>>> have
>>> > the most common size. In such case, let's take a few 128x128 icons,
>>> the
>>> > base class that gives the image to use says 16x16 as size but then
>>> > override in single sprite the height/width to use 128x128. This
>>> could be
>>> > optimized to say 128x128 in the base definition and not override this
>>> > after that.
>>>
>>> if you have an idea how to implement it easy without having a big
>>> refactoring
>>
>> Idea seems not that tricky: instead of having a "global" defaultHeight,
>> defaultWidth, use an array with defaultHeight/Width per subdirectory,
>> that's it!
> The problem is, that the "main tasks" of this one in TYPO3 won't work on
> subdirectories... the SpriteManager will pass an array of icons from
> different extensions, tca and wherever they will "lay around". Please do
> not "rely" on foldersthe sprite Generator is based on an "array of
> files", the "folder reading" is just an wrapper for conveinience since
> TYPO3-(Core)-Developers and Probably some Extensions may use it sometimes.

OK. That was nitpicking anyway as the generator really works as expected 
even with mix sizes of icons.

Xavier