What’s the reason
for not having icons on the other locations? The Add,
Remove, Up, Down and Edit buttons could also get icons
(that already either already exist in Eclipse or are
known by “everybody” from every day’s life).
Note that I don't have an answer, but I fully agree with
you that icon really improve the "comfort" of the
application as a user.
In Platform and JDT, I usually just repeat the reference
state and don't add icons to buttons, but in other projects
I work on, I usually try to add an icon about everywhere.
And actually rather than building icons or digging existing
icons (which is a pretty expensive task), I usually just add
emojis in here. They just work and are well known:
* ➕ Add
* 🗑️ Remove
* 🖊️ Edit
* ▶️ Run
* ❌ Cancel
* ✔️ OK
* 📂 Browse
* 🔍 Find
* 🔬 Details
* 🔭 Search (pretty good for remote/cloud search)
* ⏳Pending
* ...
If we can collectively agree emojis are fine, then I'd be
glad to contrbute to building a set of reference
label->emoji recommendation and upon approval make those
used everywhere possible.
Wouldn't it be a topic to decide through Architecture
Council?