Matthias,
No I didn't know about the image repo. That's cool. Especially having
SVGs is even more cool. Thanks for sharing!
Yes, I know that PNGs with alpha are much better than the older formats.
But with several large code bases to maintain and support, it's very
hard to migrate existing images to PNGs without graphic design
expertise/help so it's hard to keep up with progress such as double
resolution PNGs for high DPI displays like what the platform is doing so
well. So more often than not, something quick and dirty with a big
selection of EPL images just has to suffice. :-(
Cheers,
Ed
On 25.09.2019 14:33, Becker, Matthias wrote:
Regarding the „image mining“:
Do you know
https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/q/project:platform/eclipse.platform.imagesThis
repo contains all the icons of platform in high resolution.
I have that cloned and just browse that with my file manager when
searching for icons.
Today we should not copy GIFs or JPGs anymore but only use PNGs (that
are available also in high resolution PNG and SVG).
I know this only captures platform icons but at least for these we
have a common place where the SVGs and the rendered PNGs are stored.
*From: *<cross-project-issues-dev-boun...@eclipse.org> on behalf of Ed
Merks <ed.me...@gmail.com>
*Reply to: *Cross project issues <cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org>
*Date: *Wednesday, 25. September 2019 at 12:36
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<cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org>
*Subject: *Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Text and / or Icons on
Buttons / Toolbar Items
Like Mickael, we've tried to more consistently have icons in the
Oomph's menus and buttons. It just seems prettier. :-P
But if you'll excuse my ignorance, what are "emojis"? Unicode
characters? Sorry to say that they don't look so nice and if they are
unicode characters you never know how they will be rendered on each OS...
As for "image mining", I shouldn't admit this out loud, but I wrote a
small utility that scans all bundles with names starting with
org.eclipse.* that are in my very old and very big bundle pool and
finds all the gifs, jpegs, and pngs, hashes them for image uniqueness,
and then organizes them into folder based on size, preserving the file
name so I can search for images based on those names. It's a pretty
convenient image shop. :-P
On 25.09.2019 12:14, Mickael Istria wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 11:46 AM Becker, Matthias
<ma.bec...@sap.com <mailto:ma.bec...@sap.com>> wrote:
What’s the reason for not having icons on the other locations?
The Add, Remove, Up, Down and Edit buttons could also get
icons (that already either already exist in Eclipse or are
known by “everybody” from every day’s life).
Note that I don't have an answer, but I fully agree with you that
icon really improve the "comfort" of the application as a user.
In Platform and JDT, I usually just repeat the reference state and
don't add icons to buttons, but in other projects I work on, I
usually try to add an icon about everywhere. And actually rather
than building icons or digging existing icons (which is a pretty
expensive task), I usually just add emojis in here. They just work
and are well known:
* ➕ Add
* 🗑️ Remove
* 🖊️ Edit
* ▶️ Run
* ❌ Cancel
* ✔️ OK
* 📂 Browse
* 🔍 Find
* 🔬 Details
* 🔭 Search (pretty good for remote/cloud search)
* ⏳Pending
* ...
If we can collectively agree emojis are fine, then I'd be glad to
contrbute to building a set of reference label->emoji
recommendation and upon approval make those used everywhere possible.
Wouldn't it be a topic to decide through Architecture Council?
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