Ant icon for freeform projects in NB dev builds

Is anyone else bothered by the new freeform project icon in recent NB 
dev builds? It is an ant - that is, a large insect. This is not the most 
positive image for programmers looking at their source code, though it 
may be the most accurate. :-)

Also, it violates the basic rule of icon design that an icon should not 
rely on a rebus, or visual pun on a word, which does not translate into 
other languages:

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/icons-design.html#icon_problems

Anyway "Ant" is just the name of a tool, not really referring to the insect:

http://ant.apache.org/faq.html#ant-name

Further, I am not sure that focusing on Ant for freeform projects is 
that useful anyway. It is first and foremost a project. Yes, its build 
is (probably) done using Ant, but so are the builds of most projects in 
NetBeans; the only difference is who wrote the script. Perhaps we should 
use the same icon as for j2seproject's in case there is no web/EJB 
component, and the same icon as for web/EJB projects in case there is? I 
have already put a patch into trunk that uses a very generic "project" 
icon in case there is nothing Ant-related in the project at all; this 
would not arise normally using the standard IDE, but downloadable 
extensions can let you make freeform projects with no Ant script.

Another nit: the icon for Ant scripts has not been updated.

-J.

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