RE: [ajdt-dev] A is for Aspect... or Annotation?

["Mik Kersten" <beatmik@xxxxxxx>]

I thought about that too, and it could work.  But I tried to squeeze both of
the letters into the small circle that we have to work with, and the result
looked considerably worse than the @ that they're already complaining about.
It's doable, but will look much worse than the A we have.   

Matt: when you continue this discussion, consider telling the JDT guys that
they can do a much better job on making the @ look good.  I tried it and if
you shorten the tail and do some better anti-aliasing the result is pretty
good.  

Mik

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ajdt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ajdt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Wes Isberg
> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 10:36 AM
> To: ajdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ajdt-dev] A is for Aspect... or Annotation?
> 
> AJ for aspect?
> 
> > ------------Original Message------------
> > From: Matt Chapman <MCHAPMAN@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: ajdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Tue, Feb-8-2005 10:10 AM
> > Subject: [ajdt-dev] A is for Aspect... or Annotation?
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > As you may have noticed, in Eclipse 3.1M4 the JDT team have added an
> > icon
> > for annotations. It's no great surprise that they chose an "A" in a
> > circle
> > for this, similar to the "C" in a circle for classes. This means it is
> > very similar to our icon for aspects -- it's blue instead of orange,
> > but
> > this similarity is potentially confusing to users, as they can appear
> > in
> > the same context.
> >
> > Please see this bug for more details:
> > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=84431
> >
> > Basically either they will change their icon, or we will have to change
> >
> > ours. One factor in this decision is the suitability of alternatives in
> >
> > each case. They have an '@' icon as an alternative, but they don't like
> >
> > the appearance of this in such a small icon. I'm not sure what we could
> >
> > use as an alternative, so my questions for you are:
> >
> > 1. Can you suggest a way of making the '@' annotation icon clearer, or
> > suggest an alternative icon for annotations?
> >
> > 2. Can you suggest an alternative icon for aspects? If not a letter,
> > then
> > what sort of symbol? What does an aspect look like???
> >
> > Any design has to be simple enough to fit in a 16x16 icon (including
> > the
> > containing circle).
> >
> > --
> > Matt Chapman, mchapman@xxxxxxxxxx
> > AJDT Development, http://www.eclipse.org/ajdt
> >
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