On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:10:05 +0100 Tassilo Horn wrote: > Miles Bader writes: > > Hi Miles, > > >> > These new icons look very "OSX"...] > >> > >> Which would be a positive thing, isn't it? > > > > Um. > > > > Icons on OSX are often very pretty and glossy looking, but they > > don't necessarily mesh well with what's on other systems... > > > > [e.g., the trend on OSX seems to be towards hyper-realistic icons, > > whereas on other systems, icons tend to be more abstract.] > > The new icons match KDE4's Qxygen theme quite good. It seems they > adopted the convention that editors use a pen in their icon. For > example the attached png is the new icon for KDE's text editor kate. > The new emacs icon would fit very well in that environment. > It may be worth considering that Emacs is a bit more than just a text editor. I can't think of another editor that has a native browser implementation. Presenting Emacs as an editor is analogous to presenting mathematics as arithmetic. I think Emacs is unique enough that the standard categorizations do not suffice allowing quite a bit of leeway in choosing an icon. What is the standard symbol for a hosted lisp environment ? :)