Alternative icon for Eclipse IDE
Each year we have the pleasure of switching to a new version of Eclipse. And by pleasure I mean both shades of the word. Cool new features and boring migration. I usually fight my laziness for quite some time and migrate my projects gradually. Thanks folks for keeping Eclipse isolated so that I can run both versions simultaneously. I’m getting to my point now: I needed a new icon that would distinct the new version from the old one.
After a proper googling I came to a conclusion that there simply isn’t one I could just download and use (ico for Windows). So I searched through the Galileo directory and found a nice gif icon:
C:\Program Files\Eclipse 3.5 PDT\configuration\org.eclipse.osgi\bundles\162\1\.cp\feature.gif
Then I googled for an online ico creator and found iConvert that can not only create Windows icons but also Mac and Linux icons.
Click, click and I was finally able to link my shortcut to a new icon. Perfect!