TYPO3 Core

As far as i understand the icons are now limited to three different sizes (small, default, large).

We used to have custom sized images for our content elements in nearly all our Typo3 instances. A tiny screenshot of a specialized content element make its function and appearance much more clear than an abstract icon, especially if you have plenty of content elements.

A possible solution would be implementing a hook to render a custom icon if an optional configuration exists and proceed with the the Icon API if not. Maybe someting like this:

if (isset($wInfo['iconProvider']) && !empty($wInfo['iconProvider'])) {
  $params = array('wInfo' => $wInfo);
  $icon = GeneralUtility::callUserFunction($wInfo['iconProvider'], $params, $this);
}

if (empty($icon)) {
  $icon = $this->moduleTemplate->getIconFactory()->getIcon($wInfo['iconIdentifier'])->render();
}

or

if (is_array($GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['SC_OPTIONS']['NewContentElementController']['IconProviders'])) {
  $params = array('wInfo' => $wInfo);
  foreach($GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['SC_OPTIONS']['NewContentElementController']['IconProviders'] as $funcRef) {
    $icon = GeneralUtility::callUserFunction($funcRef, $params, $this);
    if (!empty(icon)) break;
  }
}

if (empty($icon)) {
  $icon = $this->moduleTemplate->getIconFactory()->getIcon($wInfo['iconIdentifier'])->render();
}

This way a custom class could scan for a specific prefix or identifier to meet special demands.

Implementing an own IconFactory would be a hard task as this would also need an own Icon class that accepts other dimensions as the three default ones (Exception in setSize()).
And i can not foresee which impacts this appoach will have.

Another (ugly) approach would be xclassing the NewContentElementController class in our Typo3s what i really would like to avoid.

Ok. I hope that "streamlining" dosn't mean reducing funtionality in favor of a common design. This therm always makes me shiver because this often means "Function follows Design" what is pretty awful.

Is there any way to use decent images instead of icons for content elements? I do not think our customers will accept that without reistance.

Please re-add the possiblity to use larger images as Klaus remarked.
It is very user friendly.
Also I don't think it is a good idea to remove an option in this version and refactor it in the next version.