Something that conveys both "drawing in a fun way" and engineering smarts would be ideal. I really like the juxtaposition of the pencil and the protractor in this one, it would be just about perfect:
Unfortunately that's a stock icon that is used all over the web as part of a royalty-free package. But that's the line of thinking.
Notice that while setting the icon of the application at runtime so it appears in the title bar etc. is easy. But it's a cross-platform nightmare to get the icon installed to be seen in file browsers/etc:
For the moment I'm just doing a runtime setting for a free icon to look a bit less generic than the X in X-windows. Not really a blocking issue but would be good to come up with something better before making or giving any demos, if possible.
Something that conveys both "drawing in a fun way" and engineering smarts would be ideal. I really like the juxtaposition of the pencil and the protractor in this one, it would be just about perfect:
http://www.iconexperience.com/_img/v_collection_png/512x512/shadow/drawing_utensils.png
Unfortunately that's a stock icon that is used all over the web as part of a royalty-free package. But that's the line of thinking.
Notice that while setting the icon of the application at runtime so it appears in the title bar etc. is easy. But it's a cross-platform nightmare to get the icon installed to be seen in file browsers/etc:
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/appicon.html
For the moment I'm just doing a runtime setting for a free icon to look a bit less generic than the X in X-windows. Not really a blocking issue but would be good to come up with something better before making or giving any demos, if possible.