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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
Cc: 56896@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56896: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Make the bookmark fringe icon look like a bookmark
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2022 22:18:24 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83tu6u5u9r.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39a51230-2a0f-4eb7-a811-e4509a826f5d@gmail.com> (message from Jim Porter on Tue, 2 Aug 2022 12:13:44 -0700)

> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2022 12:13:44 -0700
> 
> Currently, the bookmark fringe icon is a circle. However, Emacs already 
> uses a circle to represent breakpoints (as do a lot of other IDEs). 
> These are usually a different color, but I think it would be nice if the 
> bookmark fringe icon were a different shape too. This would help 
> colorblind users, since (depending on their Emacs theme and what kind of 
> colorblindness they have), it might be hard to distinguish the bookmark 
> icon from the breakpoint icon.
> 
> It would help make the purpose of the indicator more obvious to users 
> who don't directly use bookmarks. Some packages (including the built-in 
> org-capture package) set bookmarks automatically, and a user might not 
> realize that the dot indicates a bookmark, as opposed to some other thing.
> 
> Attached are some screenshots showing before/after, plus a patch for 
> this. I converted the string definition of the bitmap to a vector of 
> (binary) numbers, since then a reader can see the shape of the icon if 
> they look carefully.

Why not make the icon customizable, and offer several possible bitmaps
to chose from?  Hardcoding a single icon will always annoy someone.

Thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-02 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-02 19:13 bug#56896: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Make the bookmark fringe icon look like a bookmark Jim Porter
2022-08-02 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-08-02 20:05   ` Jim Porter
2022-08-03  2:28     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-04  3:24       ` Jim Porter
2022-08-04  6:53         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-04  6:57           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-05  4:41           ` Jim Porter
2022-08-13 21:59             ` bug#56896: 29.0.50; [PATCHv3] " Jim Porter
2022-08-15  6:44               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-16  4:17                 ` Jim Porter
2022-08-21 16:23                 ` Juri Linkov
2022-08-02 20:10   ` bug#56896: 29.0.50; [PATCH] " Drew Adams
2022-08-03  2:23 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-03  2:42   ` Jim Porter
2022-08-03  4:31     ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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