Re: Silk icon set for Gnus and synchronizing it into Emacs

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:42:18 +0100 Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info> wrote: 

JD> On Wed, Mar 23 2011, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>> There's two issues.  One, Gnome themes are meant for system appearance,
>> NOT for applications (although applications can use them).  I think the
>> Silk-only *names* are worth including for their semantic meaning,
>> e.g. "css_valid" which Gnome themes don't have (they go by MIME type but
>> can't combine that with the "valid" meaning).  This is not a shortcoming
>> of the Gnome themes, they just don't cover the same territory that Silk
>> does.

JD> I think this is partially wrong. Nautilus supports combining icons by
JD> adding an "emblem" on top of them. Therefore you can add a "valid
JD> emblem" on top of a "CSS icon". See gvfs-set-attribute.

Sorry, I don't know how that would help inside Emacs or Gnus.  You'd
have to compose the image yourself, right?  Plus you'd lose the visual
consistency that Silk provides by having individually designed icons.

I have almost convinced myself to make iconset-silk.el an ELPA package
now :) I may also provide a general iconset.el library that would make
it easier to interact with iconset-silk.el symbolically.  Would that be
OK?  Is there already a library to do this?

Ted