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What do the icons in Eclipse mean?

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This is a fairly comprehensive list from the Eclipse documentation. If anyone knows of another list — maybe with more details, or just the most common icons — feel free to add it.

Latest: JDT Icons

2019-06: JDT Icons

2019-03: JDT Icons

2018-12: JDT Icons

2018-09: JDT Icons

Photon: JDT Icons

Oxygen: JDT Icons

Neon: JDT Icons

Mars: JDT Icons

Luna: JDT Icons

Kepler: JDT Icons

Juno: JDT Icons

Indigo: JDT Icons

Helios: JDT Icons

There are also some CDT icons at the bottom of this help page.

If you're a Subversion user, the icons you're looking for may actually belong to Subclipse; see this excellent answer for more on those.


I can't find a way to create a table with icons in SO, so I am uploading 2 images. Objects Icons

Decorator icons


In eclipse help documentation, we can all icons information as follows. Common path for all eclipse versions except eclipse version:

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https://help.eclipse.org/2019-09/index.jsp?nav=%2F1