I'm in favor of new icons, and am willing to help.
and have been working on some icons for myself
for a while now, though understanding glyphs is taking me a while to
accomplish, and the time it takes to make icons
all from scratch. From scratch, because I see millions of icons in the
internet with unknown licenses, and am cautious of stepping on
somebody's toes by giving them out with XEmacs.
I find I have never used some of the icons that are on the iconbar now,
and wish there were icons for additional (different) tasks from the
current set.
2 questions, 2 comments:
1. What do people want to do with icons?
personally I use the one-button-click save as I save
pretty frequently. What do other people actually
want to use their iconbar for?
2. what icons should be included in a "complete set"
of icons that we are talking about making here?
3. Also, I wonder if we did do some new icons if that would be
enough. Wouldn't we also want to do some other components
on the screen, like the iconbar background, and then make
the menubar background to match it, then there are the gutters with the
scroll bars, surely they should match the menubar too. Where do you
stop? Do you implement full
theming? All the sudden this looks like it would grow into a full
facelift and take a large amount of all of our time.
4. If we do make a set (or several) of icons and update the screen's
looks, it would be nice to make a lisp file to automatically change all
the icons to a new set, and a lisp file to change all the icons back to
the defaults, in case they get messed up by user modifications along the
way.
Steve Mitchell
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