On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 7:50 PM Tim Boudreau <niftin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I did most of the icons in 1999 (a few of them still exist in core as tree > icons for nodes that are not typically shown anymore); in 2000 they were > taken over by Sun's Human Interface Engineering team, and everything was > converted to the (awful) "flush 3d" metal look and feel look. Circa 2004 we > got out from under the tyrrany of metal look and feel, and they were > redesigned again by a guy whose name I can't remember, Leos Tronicek. Gj > but could probably > dig up - that redesign established the shapes still in use for things like > classes, fields and methods. Since then there was one reworking of the > icons that made them more cartoonish (I remember Wade calling it "NetBeans > for babies"). > > I think in the long run, switching to vector icons is smart. That said, I > would not run with SVG without precompiling it into code that drives a > Graphics2D and either renders and caches images, or deals with performance > and memory allocation issues around GradientPaint and friends in the JDK > (both allocate large rasters on every paint, and vertical and horizontal > and radial gradients can be cached and reused instead - AND the pixel > pushing approach of those has a serious impedance mismatch with modern > graphics pipelines - it happens that just this week I benchmarked cached > gradient BufferedImages vs GradientPaint and RadialGradientPaint with as > much raster caching as you could do there - the result was blitting > BufferedImages was 10x faster, and 40x faster if you ran a full GC between > benchmark loops, meaning that performance with Paint objects is also much > less predictable). One of the rationales for JavaFX's creation was to have > a graphics toolkit that operated with the grain of how modern graphics > cards work, rather than 1990s xterms did things. > > -Tim > > On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 7:09 PM 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 > > > > -- > http://timboudreau.com >
