Re: Using more and/or better icons in Emacs

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 09.04.2021 05:09, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
>
> > It would be nice to have a set of general purpose icons available in
> > ELPA, or ever in the core. For this and other purposes.
>
> Yup.  Have a look at the attached quick mock-up of how things could look
> if we would use Material icons for the tool-bar as an example.

I like it!

My Emacs already shows nice icons in the toolbar, though, thanks to GTK3 
theme integration. And weren't we talking about removing the toolbar?

You have my support for replacing the default set, of course.

> > For now I'm using vscode's ones (under CC BY 4.0), but I'm guessing it
> > won't be good for Emacs's image to migrate to that wholesale.
>
> True.  all-the-icons.el has some links to other freely licensed sets.
> Could one of them be a suitable replacement?

To be clear, I'm using SVG icons there in the video. And I think the 
discussions around emacs-devel showed certain rejection of the ideal of 
using of fonts for icons.

Would be nice otherwise, though. If perhaps a tad limiting.