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lazarus file icons on windows

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Bernd Kreuss

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Hi,

this has probably the lowest priority of all but two things keep bugging me immediately and every single time when I look into one of my project folders with windows explorer. The reason they are bugging me and nobody else is because I am a perfectionist and they disturb the perceived perfection, even without having any influence on any functionality.

These two things are:

* the file icons and the file description registered with windows explorer for .lpr and .lpi files are exactly the same, both have the name "Lazarus Project Information" in their file type.

* the file icons for .pas files look so ugly that it is hard to find any words to appropriately describe their ugliness.

For the upcoming 1.0 release I would propose to change these icons. The .lpr files and the .pas files should look more similar to each other since both contain pascal code and they both should look different from the .lpi file, the .lpi file should somehow visually stand out but all three should somehow share a common theme. I am not an artist but maybe something similar to what Python did with their icon set http://www.doxdesk.com/img/software/py/pyicons.png would look extremely nice.

Bernd

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Bernd Kreuss
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Bernd Kreuss wrote
For the upcoming 1.0 release

If this would further delay the step to version 1.0 then please immediately forget this proposal. IMHO removing this 0.x "Not-Yet-Ready" stigma from Lazarus by moving from 0.x to 1.0 in the very next version should have highest priority, forget the file icons.

Bernd

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