From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christoph Conrad Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Silk icon set for Gnus and synchronizing it into Emacs Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:17:26 +0100 Message-ID: <87bp0zvhtl.fsf@ID-24456.user.uni-berlin.de> References: <87sjugi4rc.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87aaglsvjk.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87lj05ohcf.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87fwqdk7j7.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87ipv8pcc8.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: Christoph Conrad NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301034276 12186 80.91.229.12 (25 Mar 2011 06:24:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 06:24:36 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 25 07:24:32 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q30Rk-0003ja-BI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:24:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60127 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q30Rj-0007M4-Fb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 02:24:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51955 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q30Rb-0007Lu-Cd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 02:24:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q30RZ-0002Xv-In for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 02:24:23 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:47086) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q30RZ-0002Xc-DU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 02:24:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q30RW-0003fX-7y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:24:18 +0100 Original-Received: from ip-109-90-219-147.unitymediagroup.de ([109.90.219.147]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:24:18 +0100 Original-Received: from christoph.conrad by ip-109-90-219-147.unitymediagroup.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:24:18 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-109-90-219-147.unitymediagroup.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/23.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:OInSoLo+Celzzp146QQ8QprYlrI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:137662 Archived-At: Hi Chong, * Chong Yidong schrieb: > While I agree that Emacs programmers might be happy with the easy > availability of such icons, adding hundreds of files to the Emacs > tarfile, not directly used by Emacs, strikes me as wasteful. Programmers are able to customize emacs to their needs by adding any external icon set they need. The everyday user (yes, they exist) is not. > Or is the idea to make Silk an optional dependency, so that the > package will display icons only if Silk is installed? That would be a good opportunity. Regards, Christoph