Re: svn icons in the toolbar

[Chong Yidong]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> 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.