Friday, May 29, 2009

Change SVN overlay icons in Eclipse PDT + Subclipse

I hate Eclipse PDT Team plugin standard overlay icons. I find it hard to see which file was modified, removed or is up to date. Being used with the icons form Tortoise SVN I managed to change them to be similar to Tortoise.

If you would like to do the same, here is how I changed them:
1) go to /path/to/ecplise/plugins/
2) search for org.eclipse.team.ui_[X].[Y].[Z].r[W]x_[DATE].jar (my file is named org.eclipse.team.ui_3.3.2.r33x_20080128.jar)
3) open the jar file with an archive manager (eg: File Roller)
4) inside the archive go to /icons/full/ovr/
5) replace any picture in there with one of your own, but do not change their names and/or extension
6) restart Eclipse & you're done


If you want SVN menu icons to be changed too follow these steps:
1) in Eclipse go to Window -> Preferences
2) go to Team -> SVN -> Menu Icons
3) select TortoiseSVN in there
4) hit apply and restart Eclipse


PS: You cand get Tortoise SVN icons from here: http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-wcstatus.html

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