Re: New GNOME icons

[Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> wrote:

> >>>>> In <22907.1142318606@olgas.newt.com> Bill Wohler wrote:
> 
> > By the way, Richard had a few comments about our
> > image-load-path-for-library function. He didn't like that "path" was a
> > symbol. He preferred to pass the value. Also, he didn't like it that we
> > weren't always returning a list, such as when "path" was t. I think he's
> > right. Indeed, fixing these things simplified the final cond to just:
> 
> >     (nconc (list image-directory)
> >            (delete image-directory (copy-sequence (or path load-path))))))
> 
> > Note that we now document that the directory is first, so the "path ==
> > t" feature can be achieved with (car (image-load-path-for-library ...)).
> 
> > I've made the changes that Richard suggested, but I'd like to get
> > confirmation from you folks that they are OK with you too before
> > committing them. At that time, you can copy the changes from
> > image-load-path-for-library into gmm-image-load-path-for-library and
> > remove your changes to gmm-defun-compat.
> 
> Well, I have currently no idea about that since I didn't follow
> the whole story.  But I have an unsophisticated doubt.
> 
> When Emacs didn't have new image files, I programmed my shell
> script which builds and installs Gnus so that it installs image
> files to the "/usr/local/share/emacs/etc/images/" directory, and
> I added it to `image-load-path' as the first element.  The
> reason I did so is I don't want to modify image files that Emacs
> provides though I want Gnus to display new icon images.
> 
> (The default directory in which Emacs' image files are
> installed is "/usr/local/share/emacs/VERSION/etc/images/".
> Normally Emacs doesn't care "/usr/local/share/emacs/etc/images/"
> which I made.)
> 
> My doubt is that there seems to be no way to tell the
> `(gmm-)image-load-path-for-library' function that my image files
> are in "/usr/local/share/emacs/etc/images/".  Of course, it is
> not a matter since Emacs provides new image files now, though.

Just add your directory to image-load-path (or load-path if
image-load-path isn't bound) before calling the function and it will be
found, assuming that the image passed to image-load-path-for-library is
in your directory. This is what the Debian MH-E package does in its
site-init.

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