Re: Another Emacs icon

2005-10-10 Thread Robert J. Chassell
... I do not think of those commands that I do not have a key binding for in my Emacs as "left overs". My wording was poor. I meant `used less frequently' -- remaining after giving out the keybindings. Thus, I use C-t (transpose-chars) and M-t (transpose-words) fairly frequently, but trans

Re: Another Emacs icon

2005-10-10 Thread Lennart Borgman
Robert J. Chassell wrote: The reason why using "M-x" does not appeal to me is that I don't think of that as the central feature of Emacs. ... Indeed, "M-x" is designed for commands that do not have a short key sequence. It is for commands that are `left over' from frequent use. I can

Re: Another Emacs icon

2005-10-10 Thread David Kastrup
"Robert J. Chassell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At least, with the image of a Gnu head, no novice is going to think > that Emacs is a Gnu, although they might wonder about the connection > between GNU Emacs and an operating system with a Linux kernel. Please get your proselytizing module check

Re: Another Emacs icon

2005-10-10 Thread Robert J. Chassell
The reason why using "M-x" does not appeal to me is that I don't think of that as the central feature of Emacs. ... Indeed, "M-x" is designed for commands that do not have a short key sequence. It is for commands that are `left over' from frequent use. I know I use a control command, l

Re: Another Emacs icon

2005-10-10 Thread Mathias Dahl
Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > These are on the web now, on > http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/NewIcons.html, together with the Gimp > sources that David sent me. Look after David on the page. > Personally I would like that kind of finishing on my suggestions with > M-x. The small vers

Re: Another Emacs icon

2005-10-09 Thread Richard M. Stallman
Actually, "M-x" could reasonably be mispronounced as "Emacs"... That is cute. The reason why using "M-x" does not appeal to me is that I don't think of that as the central feature of Emacs. If someone asked me to name the most important Emacs features, M-x wouldn't make it on the list. ___

Re: Another Emacs icon

2005-10-08 Thread Chong Yidong
> I see no sense in an Emacs icon that would say "M-x". Actually, "M-x" could reasonably be mispronounced as "Emacs"... ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: Another Emacs icon

2005-10-08 Thread Lennart Borgman
Richard M. Stallman wrote: I see no sense in an Emacs icon that would say "M-x". If it says anything, it should be "Emacs" or an "E". A picture of a GNU makes no sense as the icon for Emacs in particular. I believe that whether some special symbol in the icon make sense depends on the circum

Re: Another Emacs icon

2005-10-08 Thread Richard M. Stallman
I see no sense in an Emacs icon that would say "M-x". If it says anything, it should be "Emacs" or an "E". A picture of a GNU makes no sense as the icon for Emacs in particular. ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailm

Re: Another Emacs icon

2005-10-07 Thread Richard M. Stallman
I like these icons pretty well, but I sure would like to get advice from someone who knows more about them than I do. ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: Another Emacs icon

2005-10-07 Thread Lennart Borgman
Juri Linkov wrote: IMHO, your M-x is the best icon among other suggestions. It has no ... I have only one question with this icon. The gnu head on the icon is looking to the right, whereas the gnu on the original picture (on the splash screen) is looking to the left. Such difference ca

Re: Another Emacs icon

2005-10-07 Thread Juri Linkov
> Personally I would like that kind of finishing on my suggestions with > M-x. The small version Gian was kind to make for me is very good, but > the 48x48 of my M-x picture does not at all have this nice finishing. IMHO, your M-x is the best icon among other suggestions. It has no drawbacks ment

Re: Another Emacs icon

2005-10-07 Thread Lennart Borgman
David PONCE wrote: Hi All, Attached you will find a new icon for Emacs. This is just an idea, so don't blame me for it, I am not an "artist" ;-) There are two variants: with a transparent background (image names with "-t" suffix), and with a light gray gradient background. Included are 48x48

Re: Another Emacs icon

2005-10-07 Thread Jason Rumney
Michael Cadilhac wrote: Attached you will find a new icon for Emacs. This is just an idea, so Whatever! I really like these icons :-) They look good with 24bit color. I wonder if they would still be readable with 8 bit or lower displays though. I don't see the value in adding the

Re: Another Emacs icon

2005-10-07 Thread Michael Cadilhac
Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Attached you will find a new icon for Emacs. This is just an idea, so > > Not to be picky or anything (ahem), but really how did you end up deciding > to send those icons in the form of a tar.gz attachment rather than just > a few image attachment (wh

Re: Another Emacs icon

2005-10-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Attached you will find a new icon for Emacs. This is just an idea, so Not to be picky or anything (ahem), but really how did you end up deciding to send those icons in the form of a tar.gz attachment rather than just a few image attachment (which could then be readily viewed directly in any nor

Another Emacs icon

2005-10-07 Thread David PONCE
Hi All, Attached you will find a new icon for Emacs. This is just an idea, so don't blame me for it, I am not an "artist" ;-) There are two variants: with a transparent background (image names with "-t" suffix), and with a light gray gradient background. Included are 48x48 and 16x16 pixels image