We should try not to find what happens last years, we should unifiy them all in all. And do it by our own. No need to ask what was the reason for that. Just use modern, flat Icons that are free, SVG will be best, convert them into PNG if SVG is not possible in Swing and use them.
Cheers Chris Von: Wade Chandler Gesendet: Samstag, 6. April 2019 03:20 An: dev@netbeans.incubator.apache.org Betreff: Re: NetBeans GUI icons, who drew them? You're looking at nearly a couple decades of work. I doubt anyone could track down all names etc or even every single source. The best info would come from the hg logs is my guess. Wade On Fri, Apr 5, 2019, 19:09 Eirik Bakke <eba...@ultorg.com> wrote: > There are over 3000 bitmap icon images in the NetBeans codebase. Probably > at least several hundred of these are frequently seen by everyday NetBeans > users. The page below shows all the unique "gif" or "png" files that > existed in the NetBeans mercurial repo prior to the Apache transition: > > htps://people.csail.mit.edu/ebakke/misc/icons.html > > THE QUESTION: Does anyone know who actually designed and drew these icons? > > I assume some were cobbled together from various sources, but on the other > hand, many of the frequently visible ones (e.g. the ones in the toolbars) > seem to follow a quite consistent visual style. > > (This question relates to the effort of making NetBeans look better on > HiDPI/Retina screens; see separate email thread.) > > -- Eirik > >
