Icon Handling

1 Description

All Icons in ILIAS are currently displayed as .gif formatted images. It should be possible to use .png instead. The filenames are passed to a function ilUtil::getImagePath("....gif");. To avoid the need that all these calls have to be changed immediately, we could add a configuration setting, that activates a special mode in this function: If the file ends on ".gif" look for a corresponding ".png" first. If it exists, take it.

2 Status

• Scheduled for Release: Release 4.3, originally scheduled for 4.1
• Funding: ILIAS-Verein and Leifos
• Development: Feature is to be developed by Alex Killing / Leifos

3 Additional Information

• If you want to know more about this feature, its implementation or funding, please contact: Alex Killing / alex.killing at gmx.de

4 Discussion

Jesper Gødvad: I think this should be placed in CSS whenever possible.

JF 11 Jan 2010: Hi Jesper. This is about image tags. You cannot set the src attribute of an image via CSS. In general we appreciate the solution outlined above.

5 Implementation

Has been realised for 4.3, see Use PNGs instead of GIFs for standard icons.