[NETBEANS-2617] Redraw common icons in SVG

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 11.0
• Component/s: platform - Other
• Labels: HiDPI

Environment

Windows, Linux, and MacOS

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Eirik Bakke
• Created: 30/May/19 17:26
• Updated: 29/Jul/24 20:21

Description

Once NETBEANS-2604 is done, we should start replacing commonly seen NetBeans icons with SVG versions, for improved appearance on Retina/HiDPI displays.

UPDATE: Progress is now tracked per these instructions in the netbeans-tools repository

With some practice, it takes on average 30 minutes to create an SVG version of a typical icon in Adobe Illustrator. See the attached illustration and Illustrator template. The Illustrator template includes a few icons which have already been converted.

In NETBEANS-2605, a prioritized list of icons to convert was produced (now migrated to the Google Sheet above). By redrawing the most commonly seen icons first, we can get the greatest "bang for the buck" in terms of improving NetBeans' appearance on HiDPI displays. Once we have a batch of icons ready to integrate into the NetBeans repository, Eirik will redo the duplicate detection and ensure the SVGs end up in all relevant locations, and start creating pull requests.

See also the overview page for HiDPI improvements on https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/HiDPI+%28Retina%29+improvements .

The style guide and process notes has been moved to this confluence page.

Issue Links

• Dependent: NETBEANS-2360 HiDPI scaling (and anti-aliasing on KDE) not applied automatically on Linux
• Dependent: NETBEANS-3468 Make HiDPI (Retina) icons work in MacOS menu bar
• incorporates: NETBEANS-2727 Resolve old images for Profiling in main toolbar
• incorporates: NETBEANS-5658 Add remaining SVG icons in editor toolbar
• incorporates: NETBEANS-4830 Redraw common icons in SVG: First Batch