From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?SmFuIERqw6Rydg==?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: choice for the new emacs icon Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:12:51 +0100 Message-ID: <47A81A83.4010104@swipnet.se> References: <200802050135.m151ZGDH005052@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <47A80C5F.7000404@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202199566 30026 80.91.229.12 (5 Feb 2008 08:19:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 08:19:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 05 09:19:48 2008 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 4.50) id 1JMJ1v-0004Fi-0j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:19:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JMJ1R-0008Bh-VZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:19:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JMIvm-0006FH-5P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:13:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JMIvk-0006Ei-Bp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:13:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JMIvk-0006Ed-7Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:13:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JMIvj-0007og-CP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:13:23 -0500 Original-Received: from av10-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net ([81.228.8.181]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JMIvg-00051r-3e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:13:20 -0500 Original-Received: by av10-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 4321238359; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 09:13:18 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp4-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp4-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.93]) by av10-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 297EE37F35; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 09:13:18 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from husetbladh.homeip.net (90-231-102-24-no59.tbcn.telia.com [90.231.102.24]) by smtp4-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0447E37E46; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 09:13:17 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071031) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:88250 Archived-At: Miles Bader skrev: > Jan Dj=C3=A4rv writes: >> I'd go for emacs_128.png. But as others have pointed out, the current >> Emacs icon is not that old. And I don't think these new ones are that >> much different to warrant a change. >=20 > AFAICS, the main difference is that they follow some sort of OSX > convention for editors -- the fountain pen in the corner. >=20 > So that may be the right thing on OSX, but seems a bit questionable on > other systems. It's not just that conventions differ on other systems, > but the apparent main point -- the pen -- is missing in the smaller > versions that will often be used on non-OSX systems (OSX uses huge icon= s > compared to most systems). Once that pen is gone, you're left with som= e > horns or an Ein a blue circle... not exactly an improvement, it seems t= o > me... [it will look even _more_ like the debian iceweasel icon...] Is there a 16x16-version somewhere one can look at? Big icons ususally l= ook=20 good, but will the pen be visible in 16x16? Jan D.