Re: Sharing mail icons between MH-E and Gnus

[Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>]

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Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> wrote:

> Some hours ago, I have committed the icons to Gnus trunk.

Thanks! You might consider floating the list, maybe my annotated version
for context, to emacs-devel. There's at least a couple of folks there
who might have some comments ;-). It's a history with this which is why
I wrote the following:

> On Tue, Feb 21 2006, Bill Wohler wrote:
> 
> > Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> wrote:
> >
> >> Those names make sense for Gnome, but not necessarily for Gnus.
> >
> > Whenever we're creating names outside of the etc/images/gnus namespace,
> > we should be creating names that make sense for all of Emacs.

> I'd suggest to add all 5 Gnome sort icons (in etc/images/).  In case
> we need other icons for Gnus, we can add them (later) in
> gnus/sort-whatever.  WDYT?

I'm cool with that. Folks (like MH-E) would use the icons directly. It
sounds like you (Gnus) folks would rename and retarget the icons for
slightly different uses. You'll, of course, have a
etc/images/gnus/README which describes that ;-).

> > If possible, it sounds like what would work well for Gnus is to use the
> > sort-ascending icon that doubles as a pull-down menu. A click would run
> > the default sort, while a drag would display a menu from which the user
> > can select one the various sort types.
> 
> I'm not sure about "drag", but a menu on mouse-3 click would be fine
> (like a context menu).

That would be kind of obscure, I think. I was thinking of those icons in
OutBreak (LookOut) for "Get Mail" that had little triangles. If you
click you get the default behavior (get all mail); if you press Mouse-1
and *hold* (or drag, as I said before), you get a menu to choose the one
mail source. However, check this out:


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If you Mouse-1 on the v icon next to the New button, you get a menu of
things to create. That should be doable in both Emacs 21 and 22 I think.
I think that would be a fine solution until Emacs supports menuable
icons. Oddly enough, i couldn't find the v icon in $g. Can you?

p.s. I found $g/stock_draw-line-with-arrows.png that we could use in
place of our own widen.xpm if the other MH-E developers don't think we
should go with the un-zoom icon.

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