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Eirik Bakke commented on NETBEANS-2605: --------------------------------------- While working on other icon rendering improvements, it was easy to instrument ImageUtilities to print out a list of icons painted. Here is a proposed prioritization: https://people.csail.mit.edu/ebakke/misc/netbeans-icons/prioritized.html To verify that the list above covers most of the icons visible in the IDE, I further instrumented ImageUtilities to paint the priority number on top of each icon. The result can be seen in the attached screenshot ("Prioritization Indication.png"). > Prioritize icons to vectorize for HiDPI support > ----------------------------------------------- > > Key: NETBEANS-2605 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-2605 > Project: NetBeans > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: platform - Other > Affects Versions: 11.0 > Reporter: Eirik Bakke > Priority: Major > Labels: HiDPI > Attachments: Prioritization Indication.png, effort_required.png > > > As part of the higher-level > [effort|https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/HiDPI+%28Retina%29+improvements] > to support HiDPI for the NetBeans IDE and for NetBeans Platform > applications, a commonly used subset of icons should be recreated using the > scalable SVG format (see NETBEANS-2604). > As of 2019-05-27, there are 2740 unique files with extension 'png' or 'gif' > in non-test sources in the [NetBeans codebase's master > branch|https://github.com/apache/netbeans]. The page at > https://people.csail.mit.edu/ebakke/misc/netbeans-icons shows all of these > images. When there are multiple files with the same SHA256 checksum, only one > is shown. > With some practice, it takes on average 30 minutes to create an SVG version > of a typical icon in Adobe Illustrator. See the attached illustration (and > [this Illustrator > template|https://people.csail.mit.edu/ebakke/misc/netbeans-icons/netbeans_icons_illustrator_template.ai]). > Thus it's infeasible to do this for every icon in the codebase. Instead, > icons commonly seen on the screen during a typical NetBeans IDE session > should be prioritized. > This issue tracks the task of providing a prioritized list of icons (with > file names) for which we should try to provide SVG versions. For example, in > prioritized order: > # Every icon in the editor toolbar > # Every icon in the application toolbar, with default NetBeans settings. > # Icons used in the menu bar menus. > # Any other icon seen on the screen when a blank NetBeans IDE installation is > started up. > # Icons shown in the Projects pane when working with a simple Java project. > # Icons shown in the Projects pane when working with a Java project in a git > repository. > # etc. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: commits-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: commits-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists