From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/77989 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus-group-icon-list considered funky Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:18:07 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87bp18pids.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87pqpo6fgs.fsf@member.fsf.org> <8762rg62fn.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87ipvgqz2c.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87wrjwpjda.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87oc58pium.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300461538 16330 80.91.229.12 (18 Mar 2011 15:18:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:18:58 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26303@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Mar 18 16:18:50 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0bRu-0006Ra-FI for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:18:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0bRl-0002PU-5m; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:18:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0bRj-0002PD-RC for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:18:35 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0bRZ-0005kO-QI for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:18:35 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0bRZ-0007qx-3D for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:18:25 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0bRU-0006BG-Ka for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:18:20 +0100 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:18:20 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:18:20 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110014 (No Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:aF2DdI+0CmJwDJTrM5P2fUx/n0o= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:77989 Archived-At: On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:11:22 +0100 Julien Danjou wrote: JD> On Fri, Mar 18 2011, Ted Zlatanov wrote: >> Oh, I see. But we can't rely on a theme to provide all the icons Gnus >> needs, either. JD> In that case you just fall back on the default theme. What about systems that don't have any themes? >> So maybe it should be user-specified, defaulting to "try the current >> Gnome theme first, then use Silk/custom fallbacks". But the user could >> specify priorities as a list of: a specific Gnome theme, the default >> Gnome theme, or just use Silk. Is that close to what you're thinking? JD> Yes, if Silk is a desktop theme, i.e. I don't think we should provide JD> any theme ourself. Why not? We do now. Gnome themes don't provide all the icons Gnus needs according to http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html (although they have a nice selection of MIME types and emoticons). Gnus has a set that partly overlaps with the freedesktop.org stuff in etc/images. Ted