AW: NetBeans GUI icons, who drew them?

2019-04-11 Thread Christian Lenz
, 10. April 2019 23:05 An: dev@netbeans.incubator.apache.org Betreff: Re: NetBeans GUI icons, who drew them? == Precompiling > > As Tim points out we don't want to waste CPU/GPU time rendering > gradients for icons at runtime. > > We could define some "standard" sizes for

Re: NetBeans GUI icons, who drew them?

2019-04-10 Thread Tim Boudreau
== Precompiling > > As Tim points out we don't want to waste CPU/GPU time rendering > gradients for icons at runtime. > > We could define some "standard" sizes for icons and precompile them to > these sizes. Very much like native mobile apps do for Android an iOS. In > iOS, for example, they have

Re: AW: NetBeans GUI icons, who drew them?

2019-04-08 Thread Wade Chandler
Top posting... Indeed, sounds like some good info! Thanks Wade On Mon, Apr 8, 2019, 11:28 Andreas Sewe 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: >

Re: AW: NetBeans GUI icons, who drew them?

2019-04-08 Thread Andreas Sewe
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

Re: NetBeans GUI icons, who drew them?

2019-04-08 Thread Wade Chandler
On Mon, Apr 8, 2019, 01:58 Antonio wrote: > > > El 07/04/2019 a las 23:32, Wade Chandler escribió: > > > > I discourage such a merge where icons from various modules wind up > inside a single module. The module code itself still has to reference these > things, and as such now must touch more

Re: NetBeans GUI icons, who drew them?

2019-04-08 Thread Neil C Smith
On Mon, 8 Apr 2019 at 06:58, Antonio wrote: > We could define an "IconProvider" service interface API, responsible for > finding icons by name. Exactly! Been saying this for a long time. And also linked this before, and in conversations with Emi and others on Twitter, but it's worth a look at

AW: NetBeans GUI icons, who drew them?

2019-04-08 Thread Christian Lenz
in the ass to find and figure out duplicated Icons. IMHO. Cheers Chris Von: Antonio Gesendet: Montag, 8. April 2019 07:58 An: dev@netbeans.incubator.apache.org Betreff: Re: NetBeans GUI icons, who drew them? El 07/04/2019 a las 23:32, Wade Chandler escribió: > > I discourage such a

Re: NetBeans GUI icons, who drew them?

2019-04-07 Thread Antonio
El 07/04/2019 a las 23:32, Wade Chandler escribió: I discourage such a merge where icons from various modules wind up inside a single module. The module code itself still has to reference these things, and as such now must touch more than one module just to add an image. Why would I want

Re: NetBeans GUI icons, who drew them?

2019-04-07 Thread Wade Chandler
> On Apr 7, 2019, at 5:25 AM, Christian Lenz wrote: > > Hey guys, > > 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

AW: NetBeans GUI icons, who drew them?

2019-04-07 Thread Christian Lenz
: Re: NetBeans GUI icons, who drew them? Great pieces of advice here (and in another threads). A summary with some more ideas: == Color Scheme: If we're to redesign icons we may want to define a color scheme first. As Glenn points out the color scheme should play nice with color blind users

Re: NetBeans GUI icons, who drew them?

2019-04-07 Thread Antonio
Great pieces of advice here (and in another threads). A summary with some more ideas: == Color Scheme: If we're to redesign icons we may want to define a color scheme first. As Glenn points out the color scheme should play nice with color blind users and also play nice with the different

Re: NetBeans GUI icons, who drew them?

2019-04-07 Thread Tim Boudreau
Actually, Leos did the "NetBeans for babies" revision of that earlier work. It was someone else in California who did the rev that got us to the current set of shapes. Had to be circa 2003-4 since I was still living in Prague at the time. But Leos was easily the most artistically talented graphic

Re: NetBeans GUI icons, who drew them?

2019-04-06 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 7:50 PM Tim Boudreau 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

Re: NetBeans GUI icons, who drew them?

2019-04-06 Thread Tim Boudreau
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

Re: NetBeans GUI icons, who drew them?

2019-04-06 Thread Glenn Holmer
On 4/5/19 6:02 PM, Eirik Bakke wrote: > There are over 3000 bitmap icon images in the NetBeans codebase. > htps://people.csail.mit.edu/ebakke/misc/icons.html > > THE QUESTION: Does anyone know who actually designed and drew these icons? I remember a mailing list discussion back in "the old

AW: NetBeans GUI icons, who drew them?

2019-04-06 Thread Christian Lenz
Chris Von: Wade Chandler Gesendet: Samstag, 6. April 2019 03:20 An: dev@netbeans.incubator.apache.org Betreff: Re: NetBeans GUI icons, who drew them? You're looking at nearly a couple decades of work. I doubt anyone could track down all names etc or even every single source. The best info would come

Re: NetBeans GUI icons, who drew them?

2019-04-05 Thread Wade Chandler
You're looking at nearly a couple decades of work. I doubt anyone could track down all names etc or even every single source. The best info would come from the hg logs is my guess. Wade On Fri, Apr 5, 2019, 19:09 Eirik Bakke wrote: > There are over 3000 bitmap icon images in the NetBeans

NetBeans GUI icons, who drew them?

2019-04-05 Thread Eirik Bakke
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: