Re: Using more and/or better icons in Emacs

[Alan Third]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 02:48:56PM +0100, Alan Third wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 05:56:32AM -0500, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> > But is there anything lacking in Emacs' SVG and/or image support?  For
> > example, it would be very nice to be able to just do something similar
> > to what you would do with CSS in a browser: give `:height "1em" and have
> > it work automatically.  Is it worth filing a feature request about this,
> > or are we happy with the state of things?
> 
> I don't see any reason why we couldn't support CSS style units. At the
> point that we're creating the image we have access to the complete
> face information so it would be fairly simple to convert things like
> '1em' to a number of pixels.
> 
> Although maybe we'd like to make it a bit more lispy and do something
> like ":height '(1 . em)". It's easier to parse in C. ;)

See attached.

I've only put in "em", as I don't know what other units might be of
use, or are easy to get our hands on.
-- 
Alan Third

0001-Allow-use-of-em-in-image-spec-sizes.patch
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