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bug#56896: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Make the bookmark fringe icon look like a bo
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Eli Zaretskii |
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bug#56896: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Make the bookmark fringe icon look like a bookmark |
Date: |
Tue, 02 Aug 2022 22:18:24 +0300 |
> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2022 12:13:44 -0700
>
> Currently, the bookmark fringe icon is a circle. However, Emacs already
> uses a circle to represent breakpoints (as do a lot of other IDEs).
> These are usually a different color, but I think it would be nice if the
> bookmark fringe icon were a different shape too. This would help
> colorblind users, since (depending on their Emacs theme and what kind of
> colorblindness they have), it might be hard to distinguish the bookmark
> icon from the breakpoint icon.
>
> It would help make the purpose of the indicator more obvious to users
> who don't directly use bookmarks. Some packages (including the built-in
> org-capture package) set bookmarks automatically, and a user might not
> realize that the dot indicates a bookmark, as opposed to some other thing.
>
> Attached are some screenshots showing before/after, plus a patch for
> this. I converted the string definition of the bitmap to a vector of
> (binary) numbers, since then a reader can see the shape of the icon if
> they look carefully.
Why not make the icon customizable, and offer several possible bitmaps
to chose from? Hardcoding a single icon will always annoy someone.
Thanks.
- bug#56896: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Make the bookmark fringe icon look like a bookmark, Jim Porter, 2022/08/02
- bug#56896: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Make the bookmark fringe icon look like a bookmark,
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- bug#56896: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Make the bookmark fringe icon look like a bookmark, Jim Porter, 2022/08/02
- bug#56896: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Make the bookmark fringe icon look like a bookmark, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/08/02
- bug#56896: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Make the bookmark fringe icon look like a bookmark, Jim Porter, 2022/08/03
- bug#56896: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Make the bookmark fringe icon look like a bookmark, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/08/04
- bug#56896: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Make the bookmark fringe icon look like a bookmark, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/08/04
- bug#56896: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Make the bookmark fringe icon look like a bookmark, Jim Porter, 2022/08/05
- bug#56896: 29.0.50; [PATCHv3] Make the bookmark fringe icon look like a bookmark, Jim Porter, 2022/08/13
- bug#56896: 29.0.50; [PATCHv3] Make the bookmark fringe icon look like a bookmark, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/08/15
- bug#56896: 29.0.50; [PATCHv3] Make the bookmark fringe icon look like a bookmark, Jim Porter, 2022/08/16
- bug#56896: 29.0.50; [PATCHv3] Make the bookmark fringe icon look like a bookmark, Juri Linkov, 2022/08/21