From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: svn icons in the toolbar Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:40:48 -0400 Message-ID: <87bqcgdewf.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <46D650E5.1030402@swipnet.se> <46DBB2D1.4090101@googlemail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189025000 19518 80.91.229.12 (5 Sep 2007 20:43:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 20:43:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jan.h.d@swipnet.se, bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com, sdl.web@gmail.com, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 05 22:43:19 2007 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 1IT1iY-0002TK-7U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:43:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IT1iW-0000Nh-K0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:43:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IT1hf-0007h6-IZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:42:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IT1hd-0007ew-V0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:42:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IT1hd-0007ee-P1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:42:21 -0400 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IT1ha-0007Mx-Rz; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:42:18 -0400 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 45E5D4E37F; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 16:40:48 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed\, 05 Sep 2007 16\:02\:39 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) 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:77907 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > It makes sense for Emacs to support using icons from a theme when a > theme provides one. I'm in favor of supporting the display of PNG and > SVG icons in the tool bar. > > Is someone proposing that we replace the icons in Emacs? If so, why? > When themes provide their own icons, the icons in Emacs are not used > anyway. Png and svn icons look better than the xpm icons we are currently using. When you use other applications (e.g. Gnome applications) side by side with Emacs, Emacs looks significantly frumpier.