[TYPO3-core] important news about sprites & new iconsets (backend-redesign)

[Stephan N Kellermayr]

because of the current (and intensive) discussions about the new  
sprites-concept and new iconsets, i have just released an extension on  
which a im working since years!
there are many buggy things in those concepts about icon-styles for  
TYPO3 around the net...many of them are NOT real icon-redesigns, they  
just inherit the old hangovers.

especially the use of famfamfam-icons or other styles will lead into  
an design-inconsistency and will not make the backend look better or  
even professional.
no question, the silk-style is great, but it is only partly useful for  
a new backend-style!
there is no difference between info-icons and buttons, there is no  
guideline how and on which positions overlays should be used and there  
are incomplete situations regarding the pagetypes!

please take a look at the extension 't3xskin' ...i tried to  
documentate this issues as clear as possible in the manual (sorry, i  
did not have plenty of time and some parts are still in german).

dear TYPO3-core-developers: take it one step at a time! ...TYPO3 needs  
a new concept of how icons should be generated or styled.

the extension has not yet implemented the new sprite-concept, but it  
can be tested with TYPO3 v4.3.1, because its based on 't3skin' ...this  
release is just a preview, but should give a introduction of how icons  
should be used for the sake of editors!

please give it a try before running the path of the never ending story  
of icon-concepts!
...the extension was released just in this minute...so it will take a  
while until its in the repository:
http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/t3xskin/current/

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