Excellent. The point of the actions is that they allow for NetBeans itself to be profiled, so the icon needs to be the NetBeans icon, so the first of the options you've provided looks great and matches what's needed, would be great to have those! Maybe even in 11.1 as a cherry pick.
Gj On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 11:40 PM David Schulz <he...@raiken.de> wrote: > 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 > > >
