From: Deepak Tripathi <deepak@gnumonk.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: gnus-registry-marks support
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:31:33 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wrh4g1iq.fsf@gnumonk.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wrh5vgei.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:18:45 -0500")
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Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
Ted,
Please find enclosed zip for selected icons.
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| Important -> exclamation.png
| Work -> monitor.png
| Personal -> heart.png
| Later -> basket.png
| To-Do -> pencil.png
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> On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:50:48 +0530 Deepak Tripathi
> <deepak@gnumonk.com> wrote:
>
> DT> Yes i am interested, I have seen some of the icons but most of
> them are
> DT> copyrighted, if you have some free one you can choose those one.
>
> Look at the Silk icon set and pick some. It's pretty good. I'll do
> the
> rest :)
>
> DT> Also we can keep something like
> DT> ,----
> DT> | (setq gnus-registry-marks
> DT> | '((Important
> DT> | :char ?✉
> DT> | :image "summary_important")
> DT> `----
> DT> So if the people are on console with utf-8 enabled they can get
> nice
> DT> mail unicode icon.
>
> The problem is that if you don't have UTF-8 enabled it's broken (and
> there are many other console encodings, so we need general Unicode
> capability *and* font support for those characters). So for now it
> has
> to be customized by the user. Is there a way in GNU Emacs and XEmacs
> to
> find out if it's safe to output a specific Unicode character on the
> console? I would assume not, since you can switch the terminal
> encoding
> and the font at any time in gnome-terminal at least.
>
> Maybe we could add a :unicode-char property and let the user enable
> Unicode output as a global option. I don't think it's worthwhile but
> if
> people want it I'll add it.
>
> Specifically for the Important mark, why use the ENVELOPE character?
> For general consumption would use something like the *EXCLAMATION*
> characters (FULLWIDTH EXCLAMATION MARK maybe), but essentially it's a
> matter of taste. As I showed in my setup, I use Greek letters because
> I
> think they look nice in that context, but most people probably won't.
>
> The Silk icon set, OTOH, is pretty popular on the web so using it
> makes
> sense, and it already has some of the image lexicon we're looking for.
>
> Thanks
> Ted
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-02 7:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-21 15:33 Deepak Tripathi
2011-05-25 2:24 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-31 16:44 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-01 10:20 ` Deepak Tripathi
2011-06-01 13:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-01 17:27 ` Deepak Tripathi
2011-06-02 7:01 ` Deepak Tripathi [this message]
2011-06-06 18:06 ` Ted Zlatanov
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