[TYPO3-core] RFC #0016111: Feature - Change the layout of thumbnails and allowed file types so that they don't waste so much space anymore

[JoH asenau]

>> After discussing the styling of the thumbnails with Susanne Moog,
>> this is version 2 of the patch, that makes them look more like
>> professional slides put on a lightbox.
> 
> +1 for the look of the single thumbnail itself now, but still ... I
> don't really like the positioning. Find attached a screenshot
> (withv2.png) of what I mean, if you have lots of images, it looks
> really strange.
> 
> I tried to come up with another solution (v3), but there is a problem
> with that version, too, as you can see on the after3.png - too much
> space between caption and the thumbnail selector. I tried to correct
> it using max-width but that won't work in our most beloved browser.

Actually the idea was to get rid of the tumbnails to the right of the selectbox so that the captions can be entered more comfortably.
Since captions have to be separated by linebreaks, this way each caption would be on the same line as the image to the left.

Additionally we wanted to get rid of the icons and filenames as well when there are only images allowed, since the filename will be shown while hovering the image and it's obviously an image, so we don't need an icon showing that.

When you compare it with the original layout, both v2 and v3 are much better regarding the amount of space needed for the thumbnails. Of course any solution will always be problematic, when you got lots of image within one element, but still it will look much better than the original, which would have shown a list of images, icons and filenames 4 times as long as the one in your screenshot.

So I think v3 could be a good middle ground.

+1 for v3

Joey

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