Re: Ant icon for freeform projects in NB dev builds

On 16 Feb 2007, at 00:10, Jesse Glick wrote:

> 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. :-)

:-)

> Anyway "Ant" is just the name of a tool, not really referring to  
> the insect:
>
> http://ant.apache.org/faq.html#ant-name

Interesting. If you scroll the ant page all the way up, you'll see a  
graphics which contains an ant.

> 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?

Maybe. I hope the different icon helps to explain there actually is a  
difference, because it doesn't really work exactly like regular  
project. Think about debugging which doesn't work automatically  
(maybe other things don't work as well), so I think the different  
icon is appropriate.

I agree we should try to make it look less like a bug and more like  
an ant.

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

AFAIK it has been updated, just the symbol hasn't changed.

-Jano