Re: Add Tango and Adwaita icons for the toolbar

[Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>]

On 04/05/2024 12:20, Yuan Fu wrote:

> I followed the original tool-bar icon thread in 2022. At the time I didn’t have much time and I personally prefer colorful icons for the tool bar [1] (IMO mono-colored symbolic icons are more suitable for inline, small icons), so I didn’t do anything except for observing the discussion.
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> [1] I especially adore the life ring icon for help! Whatever icon set we use for the tool-bar, the help icon should always be a cute life ring :-)
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> The recent Emacs app icon thread reminded me of that thread, and I do have time now. So, I went ahead and searched for the Tango and Adwaita icons (basically the high-res version of the existing tool-bar icon that we use), then converted them to be suitable for Emacs tool-bar.
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> About 1/3 of the icons can be directly taken from Tango or Adwaita, the rest I have to modify or kind of take apart and re-assemble. Anyway, in the end I managed to get most of the basic icons covered. For details see etc/images/scalable/README.

This is exciting!

> You can see the attached screenshots for the current built-in icons and the new icons. I also attached the patch for it. You want to rebuild or byte-compile tool-bar.el for the new icons to take effect.
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> I hope these new icons won’t be controversial. As you can see, they are basically straight high-res upgrades for the existing icons. There are many imperfections that’ll be atrocious in the eyes of a graphic designer—I did the conversion work in an afternoon and I’m no where near a graphic designer; but it’s definitely an upgrade and we can always incrementally improve after.
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> If no one objects, I’ll happily push this to master.

The icons look good - definitely better than what we had before. And 
it's the same set, so...