[dali-dev] [Fwd: RE: Persistence Icons]

[Paul Fullbright <paul.fullbright@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Subject:	RE: Persistence Icons
Date:	Wed, 8 Mar 2006 12:10:21 -0500
From:	Karen Moore <karen.moore@xxxxxxxxxx>
To:	'Paul Fullbright' <paul.fullbright@xxxxxxxxxx>, 'Pascal Filion' <pascal.filion@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC:	'Shaun Smith' <shaun.smith@xxxxxxxxxx>, <neil.hauge@xxxxxxxxxx>, 'Trân Lê' <TRAN.LE@xxxxxxxxxx>, 'Brian Vosburgh (E-mail)' <brian.vosburgh@xxxxxxxxxx>, <roger.striffler@xxxxxxxxxx>

A few other icons that we will need:

1. The class being Not Persistent

2. A New Entity icon, just the Entity icon with the little plus sign that accompanies other new wizard icons.  A side note, are we going to support creating new Embeddables and MappedSuperclasses?

3. Persistence Outline View

4. Persistence Properties view – maybe this could embed the regular Properties View icon with the Persistence-y icon that Paul suggests?

 

After looking at the Persistence Perspective icon, I am in agreement with Paul that it should not be so java related.  It looks too much like the java perspective icons.  I will have the dali code updated soon with these icons so you can take a look for yourselves.

 

Karen

 

 

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From: Paul Fullbright [mailto:paul.fullbright@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 10:14 AM
To: Pascal Filion
Cc: Shaun Smith; neil.hauge@xxxxxxxxxx; Trân Lê; Karen Moore; Brian Vosburgh (E-mail); roger.striffler@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Persistence Icons

 

I like the eclipsey cartooney feel!  More comments inline ...

Pascal Filion wrote:

Here the updated icons. What do you all think ?

 

Perspective 

We need a general icon that signifies "persistence", much like the plugin icon signifies "plugin".  We don't really need to show it's java-related, and we could definitely reuse the icon for orm.xml and persistence.xml files, which this icon wouldn't work well for.  I've created a basic persistence-y icon already (persistence_xml_obj.gif in Dali UI), but Pascal could undoubtedly do more with it.

 
Entity

Embeddable 

Possible to "ghost" the big C, so as to focus on the small one?

Id

Basic

Transient

Also possible to ghost it?  Or maybe some other effect that would show the same sort of thing?  Or just a T?

In addition, Version should probably carry on the Id and Basic theme, with perhaps a V where the key is?  Lob should do the same thing, only maybe with a ball object?

That actually brings up a small point.  Should we be using "balls" for data values?  (i.e. data are not object-y things, which we have used balls to represent)  Maybe we could use little pink squares for data-y values?  Then the Lob icon would look like a pink square pointing into a column with an object-y ball in front, signifying the object-y nature of the data value.

One-to-One   

One-to-Many   

Many-to-One  

Many-to-Many  

Embedded

Can we show the same sort of relationship as in the embeddable icon?  Big, back, left  vs. small, front, right?  And possible ghosting of the larger (containing) object?


Nice looking!
- Paul