Re: Emacs icon file

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Kentaro Ohkouchi <nanasess@fsm.ne.jp> writes:

  > Hi Dan,
  > 
  > > Mr. Ohkouchi, if you want to help Emacs even further, we have many icons
  > > in emacs/etc/images that can probably be improved.
  > 
  > It was difficult for me to improve these icons alone.
  > but, customer's designers consented the improvement of the icons.
  > 
  > they will help Emacs in the future.
  > If the icons with good quality is completed, they will contact emacs-devel.
  > 
  > Do need newer icons?

Thank you for your offer!

I think that the first step would be to talk to Stefan Monnier and Chong
Yidong, the current Emacs maintainers, and ask them what exactly needs
improvements and how to proceed.

Thanks

        --dan


  > --
  > Kentaro Ohkouchi <nanasess@fsm.ne.jp>
  > 
  > 2008/1/5 Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>:
  > 
  > >  > Hi,
  > >  >
  > >  > In response, the author Mr. Ohkouchi has revised the icon.
  > >  > The below tarball contains various graphics formats (incl. *.ico,
  > >  > *.svg).
  > >  > http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.jp/macemacsjp/28781/
  > >  > EmacsIconCollections-3.0.tar.gz
  > >  > For convenience, a png file is attached to this email.
  > >
  > > Thank you very much for doing this!
  > >
  > > Richard, for your convenience I attach here the emacs icon from the tar
  > > file mentioned above that was redesigned after your comments.
  > >
  > > Please take a look and say if you would like this icon to be the default
  > > icon for emacs.
  > >
  > >
  > > And also here is a "document icon". A "document icon" is used for
  > > example by a file manager to denote files associated with emacs.
  > >
  > >
  > > Mr. Ohkouchi, if you want to help Emacs even further, we have many icons
  > > in emacs/etc/images that can probably be improved. Some of the icons
  > > there are copied from taken from Gtk+ and GNOME, and they are old
  > > versions. We will update them at some point with newer versions that
  > > look much better. But some other icons like for example
  > > emacs/etc/images/gud could use some improvement. Each directory in
  > > emacs/etc/images has a README file that explains where the icons came
  > > from.
  > >
  > > Thanks
  > >
  > >        --dan