From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jan D." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Icon update Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 14:19:33 +0200 Message-ID: <442E6FD5.4090406@swipnet.se> References: <2014.1143413876@olgas.newt.com> <2055.1143413986@olgas.newt.com> <858xqvek7c.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <4428D8BB.8050701@swipnet.se> <442A5D49.1000302@swipnet.se> <442B8350.3050902@swipnet.se> <87odznu3gp.fsf@olgas.newt.com> <442D1EEE.1000705@swipnet.se> <10546.1143826655@olgas.newt.com> 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 1143894019 25480 80.91.229.2 (1 Apr 2006 12:20:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 12:20:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 01 14:20:14 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FPf5G-0001AR-UN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Apr 2006 14:20:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FPf5G-00020N-26 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Apr 2006 07:20:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FPf55-000204-7r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Apr 2006 07:19:51 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FPf52-0001zl-Lb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Apr 2006 07:19:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FPf52-0001zi-G1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Apr 2006 07:19:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.54.107.73] (helo=mxfep02.bredband.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FPf7e-0004yb-64 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Apr 2006 07:22:30 -0500 Original-Received: from coolsville.localdomain ([83.226.180.152] [83.226.180.152]) by mxfep02.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20060401121946.NWFL29994.mxfep02.bredband.com@coolsville.localdomain>; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 14:19:46 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Bill Wohler In-Reply-To: <10546.1143826655@olgas.newt.com> 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:52281 Archived-At: Bill Wohler wrote: >Jan D. wrote: > > > >>Bill Wohler wrote: >> >> >>>"Jan D." writes: >>> >>> >>> >>>>I've attached some screenshots of these situations. I think before we >>>>release this we need to find stock items for everything. In Info mode >>>>there are also icons that don't have any stock definition, so arrows >>>>may look differently. >>>> >>>> >>>Since you're more familiar with GTK, can you please suggest a >>>specific >>>proposal? >>>While updating the icons I was thinking of stock_previous, >>>stock_next, >>>and stock_up (from GNOME) to replace prev_node, next_node, and up_node >>>respectively but wasn't sure how folks would respond to that. >>> >>> >>Can you link to them? >> >> > >I'm not sure I know what you mean by that. > > I meant give an URL where these icons can be seen. >Hmmm, you're right. I see two approaches. > >1. Devise a scheme that provides the following icon priorities: > >a. Personal icons >b. Theme icons >c. Emacs built-in icons > >2. Use the theme as I had proposed. The user personalizes the icon not > by adding their icons to image-load-path, but rather by adding their > icons to the GNOME theme. We document this. > >I suspect that the latter is more germane to a GNOME user. > > Yes. But it would mean having different strategies fro GTK Emacs and Emacs compiled without GTK. Maybe that isn't such a big deal. I suspect users of GTK Emacs would want it to change as the theme changes. If we can agree on Gnome icons, I'm all for it, we can always fall back to builtin icons if those aren't available. Jan D.