From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Display feature request: gud-overlay-arrow Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:04:56 +0900 Message-ID: References: <17439.13250.269939.241145@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <17439.31049.393782.938907@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <17439.55042.159116.120699@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <17440.49789.595884.368834@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1143090351 22523 80.91.229.2 (23 Mar 2006 05:05:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 05:05:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nick Roberts , emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 23 06:05:46 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 1FMI12-0003Pw-DS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:05:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FMI11-0007nX-WA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:05:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FMI0o-0007mO-Lz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:05:30 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FMI0k-0007kT-Gr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:05:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FMI0k-0007kQ-BC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:05:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [203.180.232.82] (helo=mgate02.necel.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FMI12-0007Sk-Em; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:05:44 -0500 Original-Received: from relay21.aps.necel.com (relay21 [10.29.19.50]) by mgate02.necel.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k2N4kAKA016152; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:04:56 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay21.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.24] [10.29.19.24]) by relay21.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:04:56 +0900 Original-Received: from dhapc248.dev.necel.com ([10.114.97.235] [10.114.97.235]) by relay21.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:04:56 +0900 Original-Received: by dhapc248.dev.necel.com (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 60A1F3E5; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:04:56 +0900 (JST) Original-To: "John S. Yates, Jr." System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: (John S. Yates, Jr.'s message of "Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:15:25 -0500") Original-Lines: 17 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:51983 Archived-At: "John S. Yates, Jr." writes: > Let us look beyond program debuggers to more universal icons. Just > think of every cassette player, cd player, vcr, etc for the past 2 > decades. A pair of vertical bar is universally recognized as "pause" > and a solid square as "stop". Thus I would have no trouble adapting to > a square signifying the presence of a breakpoint, A square is obviously pretty generic; it has meaning in the above cases because of _context_ (the presence of other more recogizable icons around it), but would be fairly meaningless alone. The commercial graphical debuggers I've used have all used either a red circle or a red octagon (== stop sign). -Miles -- I'd rather be consing.