jEdit Icons
comments | Posted in jedit | texteditor on Sunday, August 12 2007 02:48:00 PDT
Ok my 1 huge gripe about jEdit. Its default look and feel and icons completely, utterly, 110% suck. There I said it. But like with all things jEdit related we can change that :).
I have at least 2 icon packs I use with jEdit every now and then. A Tango based theme pack and a KDE based theme pack ... either of these files will work wonders with jEdit. Download the iconset of your choice and the add the following beanshell file to your [jedit Home]/startup/ directory and it will work on your next jEdit restart.
GUIUtilities.setIconPath("jeditresource:/nicons.jar!/icons/");
Note, you can unpack the jEdit jar file and overwrite all the icon files and then not need the custom beanshell script when loading jEdit. But to save yourself a bit of a headache migrating between jEdit versions its easier to use a seperate icons.jar file + startup script. Also, for the Tango iconset I just place the .jar in [JRE Home]/lib/ext/ to be loaded by JVM on boot.
Tango icon theme location1 Tango icon theme location2
Nicons jar file from jedit.org from the Nuvola1.0 icon theme