Re: Emacs icons

[Lennart Borgman]

Esben Stien wrote:

> "Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:
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> > Why not just text? 
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> I think this is really bad. No icons or logos' should ever just use
> text (or even characters at all); it's too hard to distinguish if more
> and more apps do this. An icon should not be read. It's supposed to be
> an image which you combine with something very quickly. Also, it
> should be a SVG vector file. Gnome is supposedly moving to a vector
> graphics only desktop.
>  
I think you are right, but I believe the intention was perhaps not to 
have text that should be read. It should be more like a logo. The 
problem is however to get some good ideas for a logo that can be 
realized as such small images that icons normally are (16x16 pixels on 
w32). Suggestions and examples are welcome. I will try to put them all 
here: http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/NewIcons.html

Can vector graphics be scaled to such small images ( is the result 
good)? What tools are used to create the SVG files?