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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 11:13:35 -0400
> 
> The specific use cases that all-the-icons aims to cover is not "showing
> arbitrary images".  It's mainly prettifying the modeline, using small
> icons instead of text in the modeline to save space, and adding small
> icons on each line in a list buffer like dired.  In these 3 cases,
> I don't think using fonts is obviously more wrong than using images.

I tried to explain why I disagree.