Re: New GNOME icons

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

>>>>> 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.

> Is the plan to release Emacs 22, and then merge the Unicode stuff
> into the trunk immediately after that? The Unicode changes would be the
> major change to Emacs 23, right? I'm looking forward to that.

I don't know at all.  Maybe RMS (or possibly Kenichi Handa) has
an answer. :)