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kelemen / netbeans-gradle-project

This project is a NetBeans plugin able to open Gradle based Java projects. The implementation is based on Geertjan Wielenga's plugin.
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Gradle plugin Icon #169

Open rajmahendra opened 9 years ago

rajmahendra commented 9 years ago

When i use more Gradle files in the project its too much Green color allover the project. :)

For the Gradle project icon we can use the default java project icon and use gradle small icon on top of it or so like maven java project icon of netbeans. It will reduce some green color in project

JustGregory-zz commented 9 years ago

Personally, I do like the green color; it is natural to Gradle projects, in my mind. Why change something that isn't broken?

WillBDaniels commented 9 years ago

Perhaps it would be possible to add an option under "misc" to upload a custom icon for use? Although I agree with you that the green is nice, I guess I could see it being a little overwhelming (especially if you have many multiple sub-projects, all the identical icon stacking could become cumbersome

JustGregory-zz commented 9 years ago

I ... think I see what you mean, although I still like the project icon representative of Gradle itself. I've got a top-level Gradle project with around ~40 subprojects. Yes, it is a bit of a "sea of green" for the project icon in the Projects window. It's not so confusing on my end, mostly because of the project naming convention I'm using, but I can see a reason that a little variation could be useful.

Maybe it could be like how NetBean Platform projects have a different color for the Platform's Module Suite project and the Module projects, perhaps we could have a slightly different icon color for the outer and inner projects; this could be as simple as a darker green for the parent project, and a lighter colored green for the inner projects. As well as maybe icon-badging for specialization of settings files, build files, and various odds-and-ends miscellaneous gradle files...

Or am I misunderstanding? The actual gradle script files, lowercase 'g', are in my mind more identified with Gradle, capital 'g'; this NetBeans plugin uses the same icon as for the scripts. And as such, perhaps we could adopt an icon that's not the same as, but similar in nature to, the logo for Gradle itself? For me, it's purely an aesthetics choice, and as long as the actual project works as expected....

rajmahendra commented 9 years ago

My suggestions *Top level Maven parent project - Use same logo (Maven project shows as Me )

This will give a easy to identify then green domination and follows NB standard icon

kelemen commented 9 years ago

I agree that there should be some distincion in icons. That is, "buildSrc", the root projects (and there might be some other conditions) should have different icons. However, I'm not very good at designing reasonable icons. If someone would create some, I would glady change the icons (or maybe, even make it configurable).

imartinbe commented 9 years ago

It could be good to have a project icon different depending on the first language plugin applied :