For icons: why not reuse some of the Eclipse icons. As far as I know they are free to use and some developers might be familiar with them [1].
The problem discussed in this thread is kind of independent of the set of icons we use. Even with perfect icons the problem Lukas mentioned exists. The idea of the preference settings for icons is more to enable/disable the denotation of certain kind of facts (super send, sub-impl., whatever) by icons, not what concrete icon to use for what fact. This should really be fixed I think, otherwise it gets too complex. Or if people really want to use their own icons, they can always go and change those we provide.
anyway, I don't particularly like the Eclipse icon set. It's nice for Eclipse, but it doesn't fit well to Squeak/Pharo IMO. I think that we should just have a very small amount of meaningful icons that are well done so that developers get used to them quickly. Most icons of Eclipse I really can't interpret, we don't want that to happen in Pharo. I will meet a designer tomorrow who might draw some cool icons for those facts we already have icons integrated, and that should do it. I think.
Would also be good to work with small overlays/decorators as Eclipse does [2].
In general yes. But in the columns of OB we don't have enough space to also add meaningful decorations to icons.
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