Michael Bangas
Michael Bangas
# Proposal: Opening/Closing Mechanism for Zip Files ## Background The Eclipse IDE has no built in functionality to open Zip Files and read or manipulate their content. Because of this,...
# Proposal: Opening/Closing Mechanism for Zip Files ## Background The Eclipse IDE has no built in functionality to open Zip Files and read or manipulate their content. Because of this,...
Eclipse currently relies on PNG files for displaying icons, requiring two different sizes to handle various zoom levels. For zoom factors between 100% and 174%, the original-size icon is used,...
This draft outlines the follow-up functionality for the [PR](https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.swt/pull/1638) (Feature Proposal: Rasterization of SVGs at Runtime for Eclipse Icons). The commit 4e6abc7c21d10d293a68288170ef91e086d6fef1 contains the new functionality that extends the base...
The SVG rasterization for icons introduced in this [PR](https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.swt/pull/1638) enables the use of arbitrary Java libraries to rasterize SVGs at runtime. Currently, the library **JSVG** has been selected for this...
Please see this [Draft](https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.swt/pull/1647) for a detailed description. The new functionality of this draft can be found in the commit 05e7d58e54589408278712f47c4b1711689c4164. The other commit is the functionality from the [PR](https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.ui/pull/2593)...
As a side product of my analysis of software libraries for rasterizing vector graphics at runtime I found that around one quarter of all eclipse icons are duplicates. The exact...