Top posting... Indeed, sounds like some good info!
Thanks Wade On Mon, Apr 8, 2019, 11:28 Andreas Sewe <s...@cqse.eu> wrote: > Hi, > > > I want to mention here the repo of IntelliJ the community edition. They > do it as a package inside of the platform called Icons: > https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/tree/master/platform/icons > as you can see, everything (I don’t know whether it is 100% or less but > most of the Icons are inside of this package in subpackages. This is > somehow centralized and not packed with each module and we don’t need find > any Icon out. And as far as I can see, they use SVG Icons. > > some more input: > > The Eclipse platform (aka core) project has a single Git repository [1] > but group the icons therein by plugin. Also, each plugin ships its own > icons, aside from a few very generic icons like "Close", "Expand", etc, > which are present in the org.eclipse.ui and org.eclipse.jface plugins. > > They then use a Maven plug-in [2] (internally using Batik, I believe) to > render the SVGs as PNGs in both low and high DPI versions. The plug-in > also has the option to apply different CSS stylesheets to the SVGs, to > switch between dark and light mode icons, but I haven't used that > feature yet. > > While the naming conventions used for generated files (e.g., "@2x" > suffix) currently are probably Eclipse specific, the plug-in might be a > good basis for NetBeans icon pipeline as well. > > Hope this helps, > > Andreas > > [1] > < > https://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.images.git/tree/org.eclipse.images/eclipse-svg > > > [2] > < > https://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.images.git/tree/org.eclipse.images.renderer/README.md > > > > -- > Dr. Andreas Sewe | s...@cqse.eu | +49 152 56342856 > CQSE GmbH | Centa-Hafenbraedl-Strasse 59 | 81249 Muenchen | www.cqse.eu > Amtsgericht Muenchen | HRB 177678 | GF: F. Deissenboeck, M. Feilkas > >
