From: "John S. Yates, Jr." <john@yates-sheets.org>
Cc: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Display feature request: gud-overlay-arrow
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:15:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tma422p1eem963ghk72j9uj9isn7guo6ea@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3k6am8b2n.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk>
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 21:43:28 +0100, you wrote:
>I like a round breakpoint icon -- I think that's what people are used to.
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, especially if it remained visually prominent when overlaid by an arrow. And I suspect that I would not be alone.
Further, in my experience, many of the open/free software "round" breakpoint icons I have seen have been ugly blotches, leaving me with the impression
of a rather amateurish effort. I suspect that it might be easier to create an attractive, polished, professional-looking square than a circle/bullet.
/john
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-23 5:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-20 22:59 Display feature request: gud-overlay-arrow Nick Roberts
2006-03-20 23:42 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-03-21 3:55 ` Nick Roberts
2006-03-21 9:27 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-03-21 10:35 ` Nick Roberts
2006-03-21 13:43 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-03-22 3:20 ` Nick Roberts
2006-03-22 20:43 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-03-23 5:15 ` John S. Yates, Jr. [this message]
2006-03-23 5:04 ` Miles Bader
2006-03-23 5:51 ` Nick Roberts
2006-03-23 6:26 ` Miles Bader
2006-03-23 21:28 ` Nick Roberts
2006-03-23 8:59 ` Nick Roberts
2006-03-23 10:23 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-03-23 21:59 ` Nick Roberts
2006-03-21 19:26 ` Richard Stallman
2006-03-21 19:40 ` Masatake YAMATO
2006-03-21 22:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-03-21 21:58 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-03-22 13:44 ` Richard Stallman
2006-03-22 17:50 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-03-23 19:47 ` Richard Stallman
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