Re: High-res Customize icons

[Stefan Kangas]

ndame <address@hidden> writes:

> Actually, there is an emacs package already which collects fonts
> with free license to provide icons:
>
> https://github.com/domtronn/all-the-icons.el
>
> Check out the screenshot, e.g. the mode line at the bottom which looks quite 
> nice:
>
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/domtronn/all-the-icons.el/master/logo.png
>
> It would be nice if emacs shipped with these fonts and actually used the 
> icons at various
> places like on the screenshot.

This would be very nice indeed.  Is the idea technically sound?  If
so, it would open up a lot of doors for creating a much more beautiful
default Emacs experience, at least on graphical displays.

It seems to me that we should be able to work around the copyright
issues here.  There are 41 contributors to the all-the-icons package
according to GitHub.  Ideally, we would be able to procure assignments
from anyone with more than 15 lines of code contributed.  But the
Emacs Lisp library itself doesn't seem to be a lot of code, and could
possibly be rewritten by us if we fail to sort the assignments.

The main thing would be the fonts, which seem to have free licenses:
https://github.com/domtronn/all-the-icons.el#resource-fonts

AFAIU the fonts wouldn't need copyright assignments if they're only
"shipped with" (and not "part of") Emacs.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas