From: "Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: High-res Customize icons
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 11:00:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2e3882b5-8184-a485-fdda-4cf6cc861499@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wo666z0t.fsf@gnus.org>
On 23/04/2020 10.46, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
>
>>> Thinking about this a bit more, why did they choose to package the
>>> icons up as ttf fonts instead of just including them as image files?
>>> Is there any benefit to doing it that way?
>>
>> I just realized that his will allow you to change the color of the
>> icons. Duh. So that's a pretty nice idea, I guess.
>
> Fonts are vectors graphics (well, these are), so you can scale them
> without them turning blocky/smudgy. I think that's the most important
> reason for using fonts instead of images.
Instead of bitmap images, but not instead of e.g. SVG images.
(And images are easier to customize for users)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-23 15:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-23 7:14 High-res Customize icons 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 [this message]
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
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-04-21 19:47 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
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
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