From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changes to emacs/etc/images/icons/README,v Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:43:03 +0000 Message-ID: References: <200803030551.m235pHxn007978@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200803031721.m23HLX79023152@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200803031739.m23Hd8KL002405@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200803031827.m23IRg02026594@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204577024 3240 80.91.229.12 (3 Mar 2008 20:43:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 20:43:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Miles Bader , Glenn Morris , Dan Nicolaescu , Emacs developers To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 03 21:44:09 2008 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 1JWHVy-0006qN-Si for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:44:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JWHVR-0006L0-QW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:43:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JWHVL-0006KS-Vn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:43:24 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JWHVJ-0006Im-7h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:43:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JWHVJ-0006Ij-4q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:43:21 -0500 Original-Received: from ppsw-1.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.131]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JWHVB-0007rI-I6; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:43:13 -0500 X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ Original-Received: from sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.223.202]:34885) by ppsw-1.csi.cam.ac.uk (smtp.hermes.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.151]:587) with esmtpsa (LOGIN:sl392) (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) id 1JWHV9-0006HU-3R (Exim 4.67) (return-path ); Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:43:11 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Andreas Schwab's message of "Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:19:08 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 Emacs/23.0.60 (20080222) Fedora/8 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:91218 Archived-At: On 2008-03-03 19:19 +0000, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Dan Nicolaescu writes: > >> And after that the people that like the emacs-19, 20 and 21 icons will >> come out and ask why aren't those icons to be installed by default? > > Why not? > >> More, the emacs22 icons are not available for all sizes and formats >> (no .svg). We will get bug reports that a format is missing. > > I don't think so. KDE is smart enough to choose the best fitting one. > >> It's simply not worth it to have to deal with all these things. Keep it simple. > > There is nothing complex about it. > > Andreas. Keep the old icons in the data dir, that is simple and clean. It's so funny to see in the past, that so many arguments went into a tiny aspect of Emacs and then a even stupider solution was reached. -- .: Leo :. [ sdl.web AT gmail.com ] .: [ GPG Key: 9283AA3F ] :. Use the best OS -- http://www.fedoraproject.org/