Re: [cdt-dev] Using third party icons, and FontAwesome in particular

[Alvaro Sanchez <alvsan09@xxxxxxxxx>]

Icons need to follow the Eclipse IP process and will require a CQ to determine if the license is Eclipse compatible, 

I know there have been CQ's filed and accepted from other Eclipse projects to use e.g. fam fam silk icons.

The simplest is to use Eclipse icons but if the new icons are necessary your contribution will need to be dependent of a CQ requesting the use of this icon set in CDT.  The CQ will need to be filed by a CDT committer.

I hope this helps

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 5:55 AM, Vladimir Prus <vladimir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am presently working on an improved UI for launch configurations, based on what I demoed at EclipseCon,
and one issue is finding the icons that match the style. One attractive option is to use icon fonts - fonts
that don't have characters but rather icons, so one can use, say "\uf115" as button text and get a nice pencil
icon. And you can use such icon as part of button, or label, or custom widget - anything that can draw text.

The particular font is called FontAwesome: http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/ - it has a very liberal
license. Can somebody comment whether it will be possible to include it in CDT (provided my debugger UI updates
are completed and accepted)? That will be a single ttf file.

Thanks,

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Vladimir Prus
CodeSourcery / Mentor Graphics
http://www.mentor.com/embedded-software/
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