From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: choice for the new emacs icon Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:42:59 -0800 Message-ID: <200802050643.m156h3Uq015539@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> References: <200802050135.m151ZGDH005052@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <87hcgof9as.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <200802050618.m156IHMi005521@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202194115 16580 80.91.229.12 (5 Feb 2008 06:48:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 06:48:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 05 07:48:56 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JMHc0-0001CC-4C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:48:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JMHbY-0001Zn-0i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:48:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JMHbT-0001We-NE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:48:23 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JMHbS-0001TG-0e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:48:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JMHbR-0001T4-TE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:48:21 -0500 Original-Received: from sallyv1.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.109]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JMHbN-0003IB-LN; Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:48:17 -0500 X-ICS-MailScanner-Watermark: 1202798585.41754@yzb+zUu23Z5+Vjemqzs+rg Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by sallyv1.ics.uci.edu (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id m156h3Uq015539; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 22:43:03 -0800 (PST) Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:27:54 +0900") Original-Lines: 27 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:88240 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > Dan Nicolaescu writes: > > > What's wrong with the "new Emacs icon" that we adopted for Emacs 22? > > > > The icons posted are not new, they are further refinements of > > emacs/etc/images/icons/emacs*.png AFAIR they were discussed before > > being checked in. > > Those icons in the tree say "..._mac.png" -- i.e., they're for the mac, > and thus I suspect off most peoples' radar. There was also some discussion of using the same icons on all platforms. Which is desirable, we want users to recognize the emacs icon on all platforms. > [OSX both has somewhat different conventions (e.g. pen == editor), and > seems to generally use much larger icons that other systems (so the > tradeoffs are different). We'll get a complete set of icons of different sizes. And from what I've seen in a previous iteration they are not just scaled optically, a lot of attention was payed to the details... > These new icons look very "OSX"...] Which would be a positive thing, isn't it?