Does nobody others have opinion on this subject?
With all the new images I missed these. It indeed looks like variations
of an inbox, I don't see a relation to a project. Otoh, a project is a
bunch of files which can be filed an such box.
Anyway, looking at other places in Lazarus, there is the project source
icon and there is pkg_project.xpm
I think the red/yellow/blue figure are used on more places to indicate
something of a project.
My opinion is to think of what a project is - and then think of how to
represent it. Basically a project is a number of related files that form
parts of the same bigger concept.
One way to represent it would be a file-folder, only this idea has been
used before for directories (a similar concept in fact). Another would
be a file-cabinet -but that is typically associated with archives so
rule that out. A clipboard can hold related files together - but it will
be mistaken for the copy/paste clipboard.
An inbox/paper-tray does represent it, but is more commonly associated
with e-mail.
So it looks like all the obvious choices are already taken. In that
case, let's look at it from a different angle.
A project is what all the files are meant to produce, but the files are
not the project. The project is an end in itself and it's purpose is to
produce the executable results. So an executable icon could work - but
it doesn't quite fit - the project PRODUCES an executable (or becomes
one) but it ISN'T one itself.
What is that something that it is. If we think abstractly enough to
describe the concept of a project - then it is a series of related tasks
that produce a result.
Well for THAT idea we do have a commonly recognized symbol - the
checkbox tree.
Something like this
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Now shrink that into a good size, scale it a bit and turn it into pixels
instead of ascii and I think you got the right kind of concept conveyed
(with a bit or work anyway)) :p
Any thougths ?
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