Re: "Why is emacs so square?"

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 02:54:13 +0300
> 
> Just now, I turned on the toolbar and entered bug reporting mode with 
> 'M-x report-emacs-bug'. I am using a GNOME theme specially made for Ubuntu.

I don't think I follow.  Where can I find this "GNOME theme"?  It's
not part of the Emacs release tarball, is it?

> The attached picture shows a toolbar with an assortment of icons where 
> about half obey the current theme and the rest don't. I also tried 
> switching between icons themes to confirm this.
> 
> The icons to the left of "Send Message", as well as the "Kill Message" 
> icon, change together with the themes. The red round thingy with an "x" 
> changes only with some themes, but not with the rest. Perhaps that means 
> that the icon with that name/identifier is themed more rarely. But it's 
> still somewhat standard.
> 
> The rest of the icons ("Send Message", "Attach File" and the rest after 
> it) never follow the theme.

What exactly do you mean by "icons follow the theme"? how does a theme
affect icons?

> Perhaps the solution, at least for the GTK builds, would be to find the 
> standard icons (more concretely, icon names) that can be used for these 
> buttons

AFAIR, last time we made such an effort, we indeed took icons from GTK
or GNOME or from some similar collection.  But that was a long time
ago, and in particular the two rightmost icons you see in Message mode
were not part of that set, they were added by someone later.