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: Changes to emacs/etc/images/icons/README,v Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:31:50 -0800 Message-ID: <200803031931.m23JVpqi022336@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> References: <200803030551.m235pHxn007978@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200803031721.m23HLX79023152@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200803031739.m23Hd8KL002405@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200803031827.m23IRg02026594@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 1204572751 18445 80.91.229.12 (3 Mar 2008 19:32:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 19:32:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Glenn Morris , Emacs developers , Miles Bader To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 03 20:32:57 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 1JWGPA-0004dU-Jp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:32:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JWGOZ-0003YH-MQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:32:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JWGOV-0003XY-O2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:32:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JWGOU-0003XL-Fr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:32:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JWGOU-0003XH-Ag for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:32:14 -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 1JWGOL-0000KC-Qm; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:32:06 -0500 X-ICS-MailScanner-Watermark: 1205177512.72265@12O41hsuQwHCqwri3wfCCQ 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 m23JVpqi022336; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 11:31:51 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Andreas Schwab's message of "Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:19:08 +0100") Original-Lines: 33 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:91211 Archived-At: Andreas Schwab writes: > Dan Nicolaescu writes: > > > And after that the people that like the emacs-19, 20 and 21 icons will > > come out and ask why aren't those icons to be installed by default? > > Why not? Because it is useless for the vast majority of users? The advantage of having a default icon is that it works without any user intervention. The 3 users that prefer old icons and have time to spare dealing with this, can do the work and install any icon they want by themselves. Why should we bother supporting such things? Again, no other application does it, why should emacs do it? > > More, the emacs22 icons are not available for all sizes and formats > > (no .svg). We will get bug reports that a format is missing. > > I don't think so. KDE is smart enough to choose the best fitting one. Except that if the one missing format is what the user requires by default, it will look ugly => bug report. > > It's simply not worth it to have to deal with all these things. Keep it simple. > > There is nothing complex about it. Of course there is.