From: Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
To: juri@linkov.net
Cc: casouri@gmail.com, yuri.v.khan@gmail.com, cpitclaudel@gmail.com,
yandros@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: High-res Customize icons
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 06:11:01 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200423.061101.167407195680152265.wl@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k127fd03.fsf@mail.linkov.net>
>> I wonder if it’s even worthwhile having a bitmap for
>> this. These days, it could as well be any of ▶/▼, ▷/▽, ▸/▾, or
>> ▹/▿. It would even work on some text terminals.
>
> I see no alternative to current icons because ASCII art characters
> have own problems explained by Eli in
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-09/msg00268.html
>
> This is why the tab-bar moved from Unicode characters to images, but
> another attempt to use SVG failed as was demonstrated in
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-09/msg00414.html
Why not creating a specialized outline font family with the needed
glyphs? Emacs could then always use it (and be distributed with these
fonts).
It should be straightforward to take a free font family, strip all
other glyphs, and modify the remaining symbols to make them fit.
Werner
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-23 4:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-21 19:47 High-res Customize icons Yuan Fu
2020-04-22 2:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-22 2:37 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-04-22 5:47 ` chad
2020-04-22 12:24 ` Yuan Fu
2020-04-22 12:41 ` Yuri Khan
2020-04-22 13:54 ` Yuan Fu
2020-04-22 21:12 ` Juri Linkov
2020-04-22 22:20 ` Yuan Fu
2020-04-23 4:11 ` Werner LEMBERG [this message]
2020-04-23 14:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-23 15:07 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-04-23 17:49 ` Werner LEMBERG
2020-04-23 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-23 19:35 ` Yuan Fu
2020-04-23 19:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-23 19:59 ` Yuan Fu
2020-04-23 23:02 ` chad
2020-04-24 6:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-24 11:00 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-23 23:23 ` chad
2020-04-24 7:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-25 3:30 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-25 7:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-25 12:37 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-04-25 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-22 13:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-22 17:09 ` chad
2020-04-22 17:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-22 18:28 ` chad
2020-04-22 18:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-22 19:19 ` Yuan Fu
2020-04-22 19:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-22 20:38 ` Yuan Fu
2020-05-01 13:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-22 15:33 ` Yuan Fu
2020-10-23 16:39 ` Yuan Fu
2020-10-23 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-27 19:17 ` Yuan Fu
2020-10-27 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-27 22:26 ` Alan Third
2020-10-27 23:09 ` Yuan Fu
2020-10-28 0:05 ` Alan Third
2020-10-28 1:22 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2020-10-29 5:31 ` Yuan Fu
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-04-23 7:14 ndame
2020-04-23 7:25 ` ndame
2020-04-23 10:06 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-04-23 14:07 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-04-23 14:11 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-04-23 14:39 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-04-23 14:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-04-23 15:00 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-04-23 15:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-23 19:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-23 20:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-24 6:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-24 13:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-24 13:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-24 15:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-24 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-23 15:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-23 15:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-04-23 16:40 ` Yuan Fu
2020-04-23 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-23 16:19 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-04-23 16:35 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-04-23 15:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-23 15:49 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-04-23 16:34 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-04-23 19:56 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-04-23 19:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-25 2:55 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-04-25 7:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-25 13:12 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-04-25 13:18 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-04-24 12:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-24 15:11 ` ndame
2020-04-24 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-24 16:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-24 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-25 3:38 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-28 13:55 ` Robert Pluim
2020-04-28 14:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-29 12:30 ` Robert Pluim
2020-04-29 14:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-25 3:34 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-25 6:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
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