Re: bad tool-bar icons in Emacs 22.1 release

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Sat, Jun 09 2007, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>> Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 10:11:26 -0700
>> Cc: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
>> 
>> This is one reason that I support the idea of an Emacs installer for
>> Windows, such as the one Lennart Borgman supplies. Windows users are used to
>> simply pushing a button to get something installed, perhaps answering yes or
>> no a few times to simple customization questions, and perhaps changing a
>> location or two - that's it.

I agree that most Windows users expect this and it would be nice to
have such an installer for Emacs as well.  OTOH, experienced
users/admins might prefer ZIPs because this makes sure that the
installed files are located in a given directory and not spread across
the system.  Another advantage is the ability to run the application
"without installation" directly from an USB stick.  (I remember such
considerations for Mozilla products, "portable Firefox", "portable
Tunderbird").  So it might be good to offer ZIP _and_ installer
versions.

> Having the image support DLLs in the same zip file as the Emacs
> binaries would solve the particular problem that is the subject of
> this thread as well as an installer.

If there's no problem WRT license issues, I think it would make much
sense to include the image support DLLs in the official Emacs
distribution for windows.  Without these DLLs, Emacs' tool bar really
looks antiquated.  

Bye, Reiner.
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