Dear Eirik & All
Let's have a wrap-up meeting next week?
Thanks
>From Peter (System Architect, Quantr Limited https://www.quantr.hk , Mobile :
>96554595)
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From: Peter Cheung <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 11:36 AM
To: Eirik Bakke <[email protected]>; [email protected]
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Cc: Arafat BOUCHAFRA <[email protected]>; Peter Cheung <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: New theme for netbeans, team member wanted
Dear all
Please see the last three rows, is the style matched?
Thanks
>From Peter (System Architect, Quantr Limited https://www.quantr.hk , Mobile :
>96554595)
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From: Eirik Bakke <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2022 1:17 AM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Cc: Arafat BOUCHAFRA <[email protected]>; Peter Cheung
<[email protected]>; Peter Cheung <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: New theme for netbeans, team member wanted
I think I understand your goal, and this thread now has a good summary of pros
and cons.
Again, this is really up to whoever does the icon drawing work. Myself, I have
just contributed the icons that happened to be used in my NetBeans Platform app.
Would you be interested in participating in the actual icon drawing process, by
the way? Or is the use of Adobe Illustrator a deal-breaker for you? My company
could pay for a license.
Alternatively we could try to work out an Inkscape process, if someone wants to
commit to drawing a significant number of icons in it (separate from the ones
Peter Cheung is working on). Although the lack of an Artboards feature in
Inkscape could be a problem.
-- Eirik
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https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/13026411/13026411_210604+Icons+Overview+Cropped.png
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From: Neil C Smith <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2022 11:18 AM
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Cc: Arafat BOUCHAFRA <[email protected]>; Peter Cheung
<[email protected]>; Peter Cheung <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: New theme for netbeans, team member wanted
On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 at 15:48, Eirik Bakke <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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).
This is where I somewhat disagree, although I think we're talking about
different things.
Take 3 different icons - folder, warning, and lightbulb (not sure we have one,
but ...)
They might all be the same shade of yellow. However, maybe you want the folder
icons to take on the accent colour of a look and feel, while a dark theme might
want to make the shades of the other two a darker yellow, or just the warning
to match other things in the theme.
Maybe we want to edit the icon files later - this could apply there as much as
in icon loading.
The point was that to have the icons encode the context of a fill colour (eg.
CSS class), as well as the colour itself, is potentially useful in multiple
ways. And as far as I'm aware, easier to define upfront in a template for all
icons, than later. At least in Inkscape (I'm a libre graphics person! :-)) I
would set up the common stylesheet / palette first, then apply to each shape.
Best wishes,
Neil
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