From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs icons Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 11:59:58 +0200 Message-ID: <42FF161E.40903@student.lu.se> References: <87zmrl5i6n.fsf@quasar.esben-stien.name> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1124014612 14940 80.91.229.2 (14 Aug 2005 10:16:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 10:16:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 14 12:16:41 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4FXG-0001zl-8i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 12:16:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4FaZ-0001Oe-DQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 06:19:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E4FLe-0005bz-46 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 06:04:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E4FLa-0005aE-2R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 06:04:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4FLW-0005Zv-LW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 06:04:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.8.83] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E4FWj-00057A-7i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 06:15:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.204.240) by pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 42BFBBD20075F79B; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 11:59:58 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Esben Stien In-Reply-To: <87zmrl5i6n.fsf@quasar.esben-stien.name> 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:42025 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:42025 Esben Stien wrote: >"Drew Adams" writes: > > > >>Why not just text? >> >> > >I think this is really bad. No icons or logos' should ever just use >text (or even characters at all); it's too hard to distinguish if more >and more apps do this. An icon should not be read. It's supposed to be >an image which you combine with something very quickly. Also, it >should be a SVG vector file. Gnome is supposedly moving to a vector >graphics only desktop. > > I think you are right, but I believe the intention was perhaps not to have text that should be read. It should be more like a logo. The problem is however to get some good ideas for a logo that can be realized as such small images that icons normally are (16x16 pixels on w32). Suggestions and examples are welcome. I will try to put them all here: http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/NewIcons.html Can vector graphics be scaled to such small images ( is the result good)? What tools are used to create the SVG files?