Re: Some developement questions

[hw]

Yuri Khan <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 7:08 PM hw <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Beginners may never have seen a floppy and only remote files.  A 3.5
>> vs. a 5.25" disk might mean nothing to them even when the disks are
>> clearly depicted.
>
> Yes. This is why some GTK icon themes no longer use the floppy disk
> for the Save icon.

Maybe some icons from those could be used for the toolbar to make it
look more modern?

> I don’t have a generic solution for character encodings and
> end-of-line conventions. Might just keep displaying them as text, but
> possibly spelled out in full (cp437, windows-1252, utf-8, instead of
> D, *, U) and moved to a less prominent position.
>
>> What do you use for remote files?
>
> Nothing yet, as remote editing is not a thing I do in Emacs often.
> U+1F5A7 THREE NETWORKED COMPUTERS 🖧 seems fitting, though.

I'd like that.