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  • What do the icons in the Eclipse debugger mean?
  • What do the icon decorators in Eclipse mean?
  • What do the icons in Eclipse's Package Explorer mean?
  • What do the little letters on top of Eclipse icons mean?
  • What's the difference between the two error icons in Eclipse (the x in the red circle and the one with the light bulb)?

I just came to SO looking for this, didn't find it, and found it on my own elsewhere. But I thought it would be good for SO to have the answer for future reference; I wondered about them all the time when I was new to Eclipse (this was before I discovered SO).

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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.

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  • @ Mario Marinato -br- Me too! Apparently Google doesn't good enough of a job for this one because all I could find for the Outline View was [this](http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.cdt.doc.user/reference/cdt_u_outline_view.htm) which doesn't really cover all icon combinations such as the green dot with the tiny arrow. – ateiob Feb 27 '12 at 18:12
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    Wouldn't it be a crazy idea to have a text rollover or some clickable thing come up with a human readable version of the meaning. There's cases where icons are nearly useless, and then there's eclipse icons. – stu Aug 09 '12 at 19:48
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    That's amazing. They have a web page with all of the text you'd need to display, but they don't do it in the application. Considering you can refactor whole projects that does tons of complex code changing, it's amazing they don't have the icon's meaning inline somewhere. – stu Aug 09 '12 at 20:02
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    I asked for exactly this (hovers inside Eclipse) a long while back and it was declined. Sigh. – Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen Aug 02 '13 at 01:11
  • In Eclipse Luna, I am also seeing an undocumented brown 'D' adornment for "default methods". https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=405704 – Douglas Held Nov 09 '15 at 17:39
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    I was looking for versioning icons too: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1978553/what-does-the-brown-asterisk-icon-on-a-file-mean-in-eclipse – Jaroslav Štreit Jun 28 '16 at 13:41
  • More versioning-related Icons: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3920248/8067821 – Jacob C. Dec 01 '17 at 22:27
  • This list is not comprehensive. Content assist icons are all missing from this list. – IqbalHamid May 30 '18 at 15:43
  • Where can we get licensing information of all these icons? Can we simply modify them and use them under EPL? – Anand Sep 17 '20 at 07:59
  • Extra credit if you memorize them all. – Mike Lowery Nov 03 '22 at 23:46
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I can't find a way to create a table with icons in SO, so I am uploading 2 images. Objects Icons

Decorator icons

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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

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