Mhhhhh, hard question. The old ones look quite characteristic and artistic but probably either way too much for an IDE which should focus on the content/code itself. I would go for a more minimal version. Maybe we can try to modernize some of them a bit.
Can someone send me a high-quality image of the IDE without skin and with dark skin? I could play with some styles which could fit, based on the original ones 😉 Here is my first try: https://xd.adobe.com/spec/ab085381-8d07-4868-43f7-bc350fac0e58-dd39/ Feel free to feedback! All the best, Dave -- uxactly GmbH | raiken.de system design thinking Kurfürstendamm 28 10719 Berlin Tel: 0174 933 85 36 Mail: da...@uxact.ly Skype: rai...@live.de LinkedIn | Xing From: Eirik Bakke Sent: Mittwoch, 19. Juni 2019 23:50 To: David Schulz; Christian Lenz Cc: dev@netbeans.apache.org Subject: RE: Profiler images in main toolbar See the previous thread, "NetBeans GUI icons, who drew them?" I listed the various possible approaches at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/HiDPI+%28Retina%29+improvements . Downsides to using an existing icon library include: (1) quite a few NetBeans icons will have no suitable replacement in an existing font library, (2) icon font libraries yield monochromatic icons only, sacrificing the color of the old icons for an improvement in resolution, and (3) the style of new icons would appear mismatched next to old ones. There's also the license issues. The existing NetBeans icons are really quite good--most of them were drawn by a single professional designer (Leos Tronicek), who once did all the work to set a color theme, make a visual language for various objects etc. Thus I have proposed keeping new icons in the same style and shapes as the old ones, only making them more modern by omitting unnecessary shadows, bevels, and gradients. That makes them easier to vectorize in any case. This approach also makes new icons look reasonably consistent next to old ones that haven't been vectorized yet. Some examples are shown at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/110692909/vectorized.png -- Eirik From: David Schulz <he...@raiken.de> Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 1:56 PM To: Eirik Bakke <eba...@ultorg.com>; dev@netbeans.apache.org; Christian Lenz <christian.l...@gmx.net> Subject: RE: Profiler images in main toolbar Makes sense, we could also check some Icon libraries like Streamline or Icon8 to use them as a base for our icon rework. Not sure how the apache license works with icon libraries like that, any opinions? Best, Dave From: Eirik Bakke Sent: Mittwoch, 19. Juni 2019 17:12 To: dev@netbeans.apache.org; David Schulz; Christian Lenz Subject: RE: Profiler images in main toolbar If it's not urgent for legal/trademark reasons, it would be natural to do this as part of https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-2617 ("Redraw common icons in SVG"). Added a comment about this. See https://people.csail.mit.edu/ebakke/misc/netbeans-icons/prioritized.html for a list of other icons that we should eventually try to redraw in SVG versions. This task does require a fair bit of graphic design skills, though. -- Eirik -----Original Message----- From: Geertjan Wielenga <geert...@apache.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 7:54 AM To: David Schulz <he...@raiken.de>; Christian Lenz <christian.l...@gmx.net>; dev <dev@netbeans.apache.org> Subject: Profiler images in main toolbar Hi David and Chris, https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-2727 That would be a great item to have resolved, i.e., remove the blue NetBeans icon and use the new one instead, together with similar or some different overlay on top to indicate the difference between them in functionality. Hope this is doable and it makes sense. Gj
