> Yes, I realise it's some work to set up the styles. But it'll be a lot > smaller amount of work to consider now than later. And I don't see much of a > maintenance issue. It was only a request to consider it in the discussions.
Noted! I think this really becomes up to whoever decides to continue work on drawing the icons. Right now we have Peter Cheung working on a first batch, delegating to his graphic designers, who are experienced with Adobe Illustrator. Perhaps let's see where that goes first. > This has nothing to do with single accent colours, changing the default > palette or platform applications (from https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/3445 :) > at no point have I suggested switching to duotone icons in order to integrate > with this change Sorry, to clarify: The point about the color palette was my own. My argument is that the existing NetBeans icon style is not very well-suited for assigning logical colors. In order to designate a meaningful, configurable, "accent color", for example, we would have to change the overall color palette of the entire icon set. And that's something that's easier to do after-the-fact than up-front (see my earlier explanation for why). -- Eirik -----Original Message----- From: Neil C Smith <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 2, 2022 10:06 AM To: dev <[email protected]> Subject: Re: New theme for netbeans, team member wanted On Sun, 2 Jan 2022, 14:57 Eirik Bakke, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Relying on colour filtering of the rasterized icons for eg. dark > > themes > makes no sense when we can style the SVG data before rasterization > with semantic information intact. > > The motivation is just that it's less work. Even things like picking > names for the color classes is work. And then we're stuck with > maintaining and supporting those classes, like maintaining an API. > Yes, I realise it's some work to set up the styles. But it'll be a lot smaller amount of work to consider now than later. And I don't see much of a maintenance issue. It was only a request to consider it in the discussions. But if they're added, I'm happy to look at the loading code support. Best wishes, Neil
