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From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, aaaa <livi@cock.li>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposal for a new emacs icon
Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 12:57:56 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <da99c4fb-5e20-49e3-b656-acdd38f2a613@gutov.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86v83wn1gb.fsf@gnu.org>

On 02/05/2024 09:59, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: aaaa <livi@cock.li>
>> Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 04:26:31 +0800
>>
>> I agree that the toolbar icon set is a bigger issue than the application
>> icon, and it can be off-putting to new users. I would love to see Emacs
>> adopt a more modern, cohesive, and unified look that is on par with some
>> of the newer editors out there.
> 
> If someone submits nice icons for our tool bar, or points to existing
> nice icons, which have no licensing issues, I'm sure they will be
> added to Emacs.  AFAIR, all the attempts to do that couldn't find free
> icons that are also visually appealing, or at least more appealing
> than what we already have.

I'm pretty sure there are a lot of icon sets out there that are more 
appealing, and with compatible license, it's just that nobody made a 
real effort to choose one and present that choice.

Most macOS users just disable the tool-bar, but that doesn't help the 
initial impression.



  reply	other threads:[~2024-05-02  9:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-30 23:07 Proposal for a new emacs icon Elijah G
2024-05-01  1:02 ` Po Lu
2024-05-01  7:03 ` Michael Albinus
2024-05-01 12:16   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-01 14:40     ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-05-01 23:21       ` Jose E. Marchesi
2024-05-02 16:54         ` David Koppelman
2024-05-01 13:14   ` Visuwesh
2024-05-01 23:21   ` Elijah G
2024-05-01 23:55     ` Arsen Arsenović
2024-05-02  2:50       ` Werner LEMBERG
2024-05-02  0:52     ` Po Lu
2024-05-02  1:52       ` Elijah G
2024-05-02  3:02         ` Po Lu
2024-05-02  6:53         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-02  7:26       ` Arash Esbati
2024-05-02  7:49         ` Po Lu
2024-05-02  8:02           ` Arash Esbati
2024-05-02  9:45             ` Po Lu
2024-05-02 10:00               ` Arash Esbati
2024-05-02  7:24     ` Ulrich Mueller
2024-05-02 19:26       ` Elijah G
2024-05-01 14:53 ` aaaa
2024-05-01 15:58 ` Ulrich Mueller
2024-05-01 18:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-05-01 20:26   ` aaaa
2024-05-02  6:59     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-02  9:57       ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2024-05-02 12:03         ` Po Lu
2024-05-02 12:08           ` Po Lu
2024-05-03 10:47           ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-05-03 11:03             ` Po Lu
2024-05-05  3:44               ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-05-02  8:05 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-05-02  9:52   ` Po Lu
2024-05-02 17:01     ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-05-02  8:54 ` Tino Calancha

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