Re: Proposal for a new emacs icon

[Po Lu]

Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> writes:

> I'm pretty sure there are a lot of icon sets out there that are more
> appealing, and with compatible license, it's just that nobody made a
> real effort to choose one and present that choice.

Wasn't it only two years ago that the very question of tool bar icons
was raised and debated ferociously on this list?  As it happens, the
feature branch where one potential option was implemented is yet
available:

  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/log/?h=scratch/icons

and at the time, the consensus was that there was inadequate contrast
between different icons in this collection, that they appeared
out-of-place amidst the rest of our user interface, and that there was
really no obstacle to introducing even this new icon set, provided that
it was disabled by default, and could be easily toggled.  (Sound
familiar?  It should, for you and yours truly both participated in the
subsequent thread, and by no stretch of the imagination is a feature
branch with a hefty set of diffs from master a "real effort to choose
one and present that choice.")

I faintly recall that the other candidate was the XDG's Tango icons,
which, though satisfying these criteria, the cohort who simply cannot
abide the existing icons would not settle for either, and the discussion
died a natural death, leaving just the status quo, though I cannot
guarantee it was in the context of Emacs that this discussion took
place, as it might well have related to some other software.

You are, of course, entitled to forget events as they move into the
recent past, but please don't assume that this implies that they never
happened.

> Most macOS users just disable the tool-bar, but that doesn't help the
> initial impression.

At any rate, it should be more than trivial to enable GNUstep or Mac
OS's default icons with code in line with what is already present in the
GTK ports.