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An icon is a small pictogram used in graphical user interfaces to supplement the presentation of textual information to the user.

Icons may represent a file, folder, application or device on a computer operating system. In modern usage today, the icon can represent anything that the users want it to: any macro command or process, mood-signaling, or any other indicator.

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SVG icons vs. PNG icons in modern web sites

I'm wondering why so few modern web sites still use only PNGs for icons (but this assumption is just based my observation). So far I know, main reasons for using PNGs over SVGs are IE8 and that SVG uses more CPU power (but I don't believe this is…
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How to change Toolbar home icon color

I am using a android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar and learned from this post how to change the color of the hamburger icon to white, but the up/back arrow remains a dark color when I call setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true); How can I make the arrow white…
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Round button with text and icon in flutter

how to have a button with text and icon for the flutter? I wanted to have a button which looks like icon with a text that is able to put at the bottom of the screen For example, the icon is like at here: android-button-with-icon-and-text
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Where can I find Android's default icons?

Possible Duplicate: Standard Android menu icons, for example refresh Where can I find the name of the default Android menu icons (like refresh or compose)? The code below has an error stating that the resource is not public
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What do the arrow icons in Subclipse mean?

What do the icons in the following screen capture mean? The icons are from Subclipse, an SVN plugin for Eclipse. I'm not asking about the base file icons, I know those (HTML file and Java source file). I'm asking about the right-pointing dark gray…
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Rebuild or regenerate 'ic_launcher.png' from images in Android Studio

When one first creates a new project, that dialog lets you point to some external .PNG file, and then when that dialog completes, it generates 4 different pixel-sizes of images for use as a launcher-icon. My question is: So, if one already has an…
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How do I add an icon to a mingw-gcc compiled executable?

In Windows, using mingw's gcc, is there anyway to specify that the output exe file is to take an icon file, so that the exe file shows with that icon in explorer?
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Android icon vs logo

The tag for the Android Manifest contains a logo attribute which I have never seen before. What is the difference between your application's icon and its logo? Is it used purely for market?
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Icon Fonts: How do they get rendered by web pages?

I understand that icon fonts are just fonts and that you can get the icons by just calling their classname, but how do icon fonts work? I've tried checking the related icon font resources loaded in Chrome to see how icon fonts display icons (in…
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Is it possible to change icons in Visual Studio 2012?

Is there any way to replace VS2012 solution explorer's icons with VS2010 ones? At least 'folder' icon :(
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Unicode via CSS :before

I am using Font Awesome on my webpage and I want to display an icon inside the :before pseudo element. According to the documentation/cheatsheet, I have to type  to get this font, but it isn't working. I believe that is normal because HTML…
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How can I set the icon for a Mac Application in Xcode?

I have been learning a lot about writing Objective-C code and designing in Interface Builder and I wanted to set icons for my simple programs. I added the same JPG to all the size fields in Icon Composer and got an ICNS, but I couldn't figure out…
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Where are the Icons included with Visual Studio?

I heard that Visual Studio came with an Image Library, but I can't find it anywhere. Does anyone know where it is?
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How to hide the Dock icon

I want to make a preference for hiding the Dock icon and showing an NSStatusItem. I can create the StatusItem but I don't know how to remove the icon from Dock. :-/ Any ideas?
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What are best practices for using SVG icons on Android?

I am about to create my first Android native (so not browser based) app and looking for some good practices regarding icon creating/provisioning. Since it should support multiple devices/resolutions I thought it is best to use SVG to create them.…
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