From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Icon update Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:55:35 +0200 Message-ID: <858xqvek7c.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <2014.1143413876@olgas.newt.com> <2055.1143413986@olgas.newt.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1143504703 15207 80.91.229.2 (28 Mar 2006 00:11:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:11:43 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 28 02:11:39 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 1FO1o9-0005M1-JU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 02:11:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FO1o8-0002EK-Ri for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 19:11:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FNxoT-0002Ao-VH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:55:42 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FNxoT-0002AX-Kl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:55:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FNxoT-0002AN-CF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:55:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FNxq2-0000dM-EI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:57:18 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1FNxoS-00005K-Aj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:55:40 -0500 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 166A81C3DB49; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:55:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <2055.1143413986@olgas.newt.com> (Bill Wohler's message of "Sun, 26 Mar 2006 14:59:46 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:52130 Archived-At: Bill Wohler writes: > Note that the arrows will remain green, the GTK color, rather than blue, > the current GNOME color. The reason is that there is a bug in GNOME > which prevents the current theme from overriding the default GTK icons. > I have been told this has been fixed in GNOME 2.15 (which I assume will > appear to users in GNOME 2.16), but this is probably outside the date > that Emacs will be available. > > By the way, if anyone has GTK experience, the Emacs code should be using > the GTK libraries to render the icons and only using our built-in icons > as a fall-back. That way, Emacs icons will pick up theme changes. > > These things I learned during a short discussion with the GNOME > usability folks. They were also shocked that we were using XPMs instead > of PNGs which offer 8 bits of transparency instead of 1. Can anyone > speak to that? IIRC, XPM support is always compiled in, whereas PNG support depends on the availability of external libraries. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum