Hey,

Custom icons based on the packaging property. It's difficult to determine the actual archetype, and besides it's
impossible to make icons for all of them, and we even have custom archetypes for our projects. 

So if you had to take the <packaging> tag in the project model, and give icons to them it would help a great deal.

One of netbeans' strong points is the icons it has on the projects. You can give your project list a quick glance and
immediately see your EARs, EJBs, WARs, NBMs, etc. With maven projects it's a lost. And there are so many of them extra
(parent projects, sub modules, etc.), and they all look the same with extra long names. It's a bit more frustrating
locating the projects, and it doesn't looks very neat.

I think it would work brilliant if you had to combine the standard netbeans project type icons with the maven icon, so
as to still allow one to distinguish between maven and nb-ant projects. 

The maven icons basically have the "M" and "a" for maven and artifact, respectively. Change the "artifact" part to a
small NB project type icon and presto.