bug#68985: 30.0.50; Gnus: Add option to disable display of logo image in mode-line

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

On 02/10/24 22:26 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
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>   > > As Manuel Giraud said in the other subthread, it's "for those that don't
>   > > want too much icons in their Emacs". Personally, I prefer to not see any
>   > > icons or images in my Emacs - unless viewing an image. It distracts me
>   > > from text.
>
> Users who feel that way would probably extend it to other packages,
> not just Gnus.  Perhaps we should establish a customization option
> `fewer-images-flag' which would affect other packages in the same way
> as Gnus.

If we could implement this in a central location, like defusing
find-image somehow, that seems possible. I wouldn't be surprised if
having `find-image' suddenly not find any images would break things,
though. And the other approach -- locating all `find-image' call sites
inside and outside of Emacs and conditionalizing them -- seems like an
impractical amount of work...