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| Summary: | [Graphics] Icon and image editor needed | ||
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| Product: | [Eclipse Project] Platform | Reporter: | Ed Burnette <ed.burnette> |
| Component: | UI | Assignee: | Tod Creasey <Tod_Creasey> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | P5 | CC: | b.muskalla, jeffmcaffer |
| Version: | 3.1 | Keywords: | helpwanted |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Windows XP | ||
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Description
Ed Burnette
Just to be complete here, it actually does have to be sort of fancy because you have to deal with transparency etc. As far as formats goes, the only things that are supported for icons in PDE is bmp, ico, pm, xpm and icns. Most systems already have an editor of about the same level of sophisitcation that we would be able to produce so it is unclear what we gain by doing this. See bug 85349 I've been thinking about this request for a while, for other things besides PDE. For example, when developing any GUI program, whether it's in Swing or SWT or Qt or whatever, in Java or C++ or another language, you're going to need to edit graphical resources. For Java programs, mostly they are going to be in GIF or PNG format (just look at all the images that Eclipse uses). Also you're going to have splash screens, about boxes, window backgrounds, maybe images served up by internal web servers, etc.. It's true that most systems provide an editor for most formats. For example, Windows has MS Paint, which handles BMP, JPG, GIF, TIF, and PNG. But Windows also comes with a couple of text editors, yet Eclipse has a built-in text editor. Why? Because it's convenient to have that integrated, and because it's a universally implemented function of every IDE. Plus, "most" != "all". Using Windows as an example again, it does not have an editor for ICO files. I went on a quest to find a 3rd party one today and there were some commercial and shareware ones but nothing open source that I could find. That was what finally prompted me to request this. Trying to find something that would produce all the cross-platform formats would be even harder. Sounds like a find tools project proposal... What is the status of this bug? Is anyone actively working on this? Are you still seeking help? The MyEclipseIDE has had this functionality for quite a long time. Yes that plugin is inexpensive, but it still can be argued that basic image editing is functionality that should come stock in a quality IDE, like Eclipse. David the helpwanted tag is there as we are soliciting help from the community *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 15323 *** Oops - should be Bug 155323 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 155323 *** |