From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "John S. Yates, Jr." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Display feature request: gud-overlay-arrow Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:15:25 -0500 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1143089815 21413 80.91.229.2 (23 Mar 2006 04:56:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 04:56:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nick Roberts , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 23 05:56:52 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 1FMHsR-0006UB-JP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 05:56:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FMHsR-0006km-9g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:56:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FMHsF-0006kh-1i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:56:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FMHsC-0006kV-W4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:56:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FMHsC-0006kS-S7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:56:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [216.148.227.153] (helo=rwcrmhc13.comcast.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FMHsi-000705-Vo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:57:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.yates-sheets.org ([24.218.47.3]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with SMTP id <20060323045632m13005nj5qe>; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 04:56:33 +0000 Original-Received: from 10.1.1.12 ([10.1.1.12]) by mail.yates-sheets.org (WinRoute Pro 4.2.5) with SMTP; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:15:12 -0500 Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 3.2/32.830 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:51982 Archived-At: 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. =46urther, 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