From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: High-res Customize icons Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:36:31 +0300 Message-ID: <83o8rh9fa8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wo666z0t.fsf@gnus.org> <2e3882b5-8184-a485-fdda-4cf6cc861499@gmail.com> <837dy6c8v1.fsf@gnu.org> <83r1wdbcmg.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="85865"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 24 15:37:44 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jRyWW-000MFl-5F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 15:37:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37398 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRyWV-0007AR-56 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 09:37:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36918) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRyVa-0005QQ-QQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 09:36:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54773) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRyVa-0001DK-8M; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 09:36:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1298 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jRyVZ-0006Eo-1u; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 09:36:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 24 Apr 2020 09:06:35 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:247701 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 09:06:35 -0400 > > > It's simply wrong to use fonts for these matters. I very much hope > > that we don't go down this road. FWIW. > > Using fonts for those things has problems, yes. Using images has > problems as well. > > I'm not sure which is more wrong, and I think it very much depends on > the specific use cases. We are talking about specific use cases, not in general. > And I think the boundary between the two is likely to move over > time, seeing how Unicode is integrating ever more icons under the > name "emoji". I think showing arbitrary images by displaying a special codepoint will always be worse than just displaying images. Especially so when PU codepoints are used for those purposes.