Re: Gtk+ stock tool bar icons

["Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>]

Reiner Steib skrev:
> Hi,

Hi.

> What is better:
> 
> (a) A consistent icons style within Emacs (like in Emacs 22.1)
> 
> or
> 
> (b) Consistent icons between the (Gnome) desktop environment and parts
>     of (GTK-) Emacs and inconsistent icons within several tool bars in
>     Emacs.  See the screen shots on [4].
> 

I prefer (b), but then I am often a Gnome user.  An occational icon that isn't 
from the proper theme happens with other Gnome applications as well, depending 
on the theme used.

> Some related questions:
> 
> - Is (setq x-gtk-stock-map nil) the recommended way to disable themed
>   icons?  Shouldn't we provide this as a custom option (also in Emacs
>   trunk) and mention it in NEWS?  (BTW, the custom version should read
>   22.2 if we keep it in EMACS_22_BASE, shouldn't it?)

The custom version should indeed be 22.2, I've fixed that.  If you think we 
need another customize option to disable this, please feel free to add it.

> 
> - Is my patch [3] correct?

No, the files should be "images/mail/...".

> 
> - For Gnus, we have at least two icons where no corresponding
>   Gnome/GTK icon was (is) available.  How can we should we deal with
>   this?  (Probably the same is relevant for prev-node, next-node and
>   up-node?)
> 
>   mail/preview.xpm (combining stock_mail and stock_zoom)
>   mail/save.xpm    (combining stock_mail, stock_save and stock_convert)

There will always be icons that don't correspond to stock or theme icons. 
There are themes out there that don't have a complete set of icons for all 
purposes also.

> 
> - How is possible to try different icon styles for non-Gnome user?

AFAIK, it isn't.

	Jan D.

> 
> Bye, Reiner.
> 
> [1] Maybe I missed some discussion on emacs-devel as I was on vacation.
> 
> [2] Info mode is only partially updated.  Previous, Next and Up node
>     have un-themed icons.
> 
> [3]
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> --- x-win.el	23 Sep 2007 18:33:46 +0200	1.210
> +++ x-win.el	29 Sep 2007 15:18:32 +0200	
> @@ -2587,7 +2587,43 @@
>      ("etc/images/jump-to" . "gtk-jump-to")
>      ("etc/images/index" . "gtk-index")
>      ("etc/images/search" . "gtk-find")
> -    ("etc/images/exit" . "gtk-quit"))
> +    ("etc/images/exit" . "gtk-quit")
> +    ;; Used in MH-E and/or Gnus:
> +    ("etc/images/attach.xpm" . "gtk-attach")
> +    ("etc/images/connect.xpm" . "gtk-connect")
> +    ("etc/images/contact.xpm" . "gtk-contact")
> +    ("etc/images/delete.xpm" . "gtk-delete")
> +    ("etc/images/describe.xpm" . "gtk-properties")
> +    ("etc/images/disconnect.xpm" . "gtk-disconnect")
> +    ;; ("etc/images/exit.xpm" . "gtk-exit")
> +    ("etc/images/lock-broken.xpm" . "gtk-lock_broken")
> +    ("etc/images/lock-ok.xpm" . "gtk-lock_ok")
> +    ("etc/images/lock.xpm" . "gtk-lock")
> +    ("etc/images/next-page.xpm" . "gtk-next-page")
> +    ("etc/images/refresh.xpm" . "gtk-refresh")
> +    ("etc/images/sort-ascending.xpm" . "gtk-sort-ascending")
> +    ("etc/images/sort-column-ascending.xpm" . "gtk-sort-column-ascending")
> +    ("etc/images/sort-criteria.xpm" . "gtk-sort-criteria")
> +    ("etc/images/sort-descending.xpm" . "gtk-sort-descending")
> +    ("etc/images/sort-row-ascending.xpm" . "gtk-sort-row-ascending")
> +    ("etc/images/gnus/toggle-subscription.xpm" . "gtk-task-recurring")
> +    ("etc/images/mail/compose.xpm" . "gtk-mail-compose")
> +    ("etc/images/mail/copy.xpm" . "gtk-mail-copy")
> +    ("etc/images/mail/forward.xpm" . "gtk-mail-forward")
> +    ("etc/images/mail/inbox.xpm" . "gtk-inbox")
> +    ("etc/images/mail/move.xpm" . "gtk-mail-move")
> +    ("etc/images/mail/not-spam.xpm" . "gtk-not-spam")
> +    ("etc/images/mail/outbox.xpm" . "gtk-outbox")
> +    ("etc/images/mail/reply-all.xpm" . "gtk-mail-reply-to-all")
> +    ("etc/images/mail/reply.xpm" . "gtk-mail-reply")
> +    ("etc/images/mail/save-draft.xpm" . "gtk-mail-handling")
> +    ("etc/images/mail/send.xpm" . "gtk-mail-send")
> +    ("etc/images/mail/spam.xpm" . "gtk-spam")
> +    ;; No themed versions available:
> +    ;; mail/preview.xpm (combining stock_mail and stock_zoom)
> +    ;; mail/save.xpm    (combining stock_mail, stock_save and stock_convert)
> +    ;;
> +    )
>    "How icons for tool bars are mapped to Gtk+ stock items.
>  Emacs must be compiled with the Gtk+ toolkit for this to have any effect.
>  A value that begins with n: denotes a named icon instead of a stock icon."
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> [4] Screen shots of Gnus on openSUSE 10.2 using fluxbox: 
> <http://theotp1.physik.uni-ulm.de/~ste/comp/emacs/gnus/tool-bar/gtk-stock-map/>
> 
> $ rpm -qa|grep -Ee '-icon|-theme'|sort
> gnome-icon-theme-2.16.0.1-12
> gnome-themes-2.16.1.1-21
> gtk2-themes-0.1-671
> tango-icon-theme-0.7.2-36