Bug 347081 - Use better icons for clone, add and create repositoies
Summary: Use better icons for clone, add and create repositoies
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: EGit
Classification: Technology
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 1.0   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: 4.9.0   Edit
Assignee: Project Inbox CLA
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Keywords: bugday, helpwanted
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Reported: 2011-05-24 16:20 EDT by Holger Staudacher CLA
Modified: 2017-06-13 15:28 EDT (History)
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2015-01-24 16:44 EST, Michael Keppler CLA 		no flags Details
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Description Holger Staudacher CLA 2011-05-24 16:20:24 EDT 
Everytime I need to clone, create or add a repository I have to hover the icons in the git repository view to read the tooltip. I think more clear icons would be good for these three features.
Comment 1 Matthias Sohn CLA 2011-06-28 12:18:39 EDT 
Any proposal how they should look like ?
Comment 2 Holger Staudacher CLA 2011-06-28 13:23:54 EDT 
Not for entire new icons. But one thing you can do is to remove the small font banners with "git" on it from the icons. These are 16x16 icons. As a result a text on such an icon is very disturbing. The text is also unnecessary because the icons allways appear in a git context e.g. the repository view. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Comment 3 Robin Stocker CLA 2013-09-29 11:06:15 EDT 
For anyone wanting to implement this, the icons are:

etool16/newlocation_wiz.gif
icons/obj16/cloneGit.gif
etool16/createRepository.gif

Maybe it would also help if "Add existing" and "Create new" did not both use a "+". We could change the icon of "Add existing" to use something like "import_prj.gif" as overlay.
Comment 4 Michael Keppler CLA 2015-01-24 16:44:47 EST 
Created attachment 250204 [details]
Screenshot

Since the new "cloud" based icons are available, I thought it might be nice to reuse that idea. See attached screenshot, which uses the folder metaphor for adding an existing local repo and the cloud metaphor for cloning.
Comment 5 Eclipse Genie CLA 2017-06-04 09:27:51 EDT 
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/98598
Comment 6 Eclipse Genie CLA 2017-06-13 15:24:06 EDT 
Gerrit change https://git.eclipse.org/r/98598 was merged to [master].
Commit: http://git.eclipse.org/c/egit/egit.git/commit/?id=290243625ed389c051fbf8163ac847f109d09bfd