Re: Emacs icons

[Lennart Borgman]

Frank Schmitt wrote:

> If you want to create images in a vector format, you have to use a vector
> based drawing tool, that means you have to leave Gimp behind and use
> tools like Inkscape (this is the only mature free vector drawing program
> I know but I'm no expert in this area).
>  
And Incscape seems to be GNU too ;-)

> Generally I still think we should give other groups a chance to offer
> their ideas about the new icon. I mean, emacs-devel is read by coders
> and not by artists. Of course many of the icons presented look really
> nice, so there are people here who are both but still if you look at
> the development of Gnome and KDE programs you will find out that there
> are many people with exceptional artistic talents but with no talent for
> (or no joy in) coding who like to contribute to free software
> development.
>  
A very good suggestion. But can you tell us where to send such an 
inquiry? Or perhaps you can do that yourself? As you know I have 
currently put up a web page with the ideas we have had so far. I guess 
that could be a useful starting point.