From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Silk icon set for Gnus and synchronizing it into Emacs Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:51:44 -0400 Message-ID: <87lj05ohcf.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87sjugi4rc.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87aaglsvjk.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300902821 1221 80.91.229.12 (23 Mar 2011 17:53:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:53:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 23 18:53:34 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2SFS-0005G2-GS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:53:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40679 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q2SFR-0008IO-Tn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:53:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55641 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q2SDi-0007OU-15 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:51:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2SDg-00063K-QH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:51:45 -0400 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-05.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.146]:38733) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2SDg-00063D-N5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:51:44 -0400 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp128036014167.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.167]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-05.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p2NHpht4021182 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:51:43 -0400 Original-Received: by furball (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4E3FC16028B; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:51:44 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87aaglsvjk.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:31:27 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.146 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.132.50.146 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:137590 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:43:19 -0500 Ted Zlatanov wrote: > > TZ> For Gnus I'd like to bring in the Silk icon set... This is to > TZ> serve together with Gnome icon sets... The goal is to use the best > TZ> available icon, subject to the user's preferences, especially on > TZ> platforms where Gnome icon themes are not available. Do you have any specific icons in mind, that are not present in the Gnome icon set? License aside (see below), I am leery of this move: 1. The Silk icon set is 700 files. Adding 700 files to the Emacs distribution, just because some of these might be used by Emacs libraries at some point, is unreasonable.. 2. The right approach is to use system icons whenever possible. Rather than adding icon files in support where the x-gtk-stock-map functionality doesn't exist, it's better to improve those platforms by implementing facilities analogous to x-gtk-stock-map. > OK, can anyone at least tell me if adding something with the Creative > Commons 3.0 license to Emacs is acceptable? Let's discuss this off-list.