Re: High-res Customize icons

[Stefan Kangas]

Stefan Kangas <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.

Thinking about this a bit more, why did they choose to package the
icons up as ttf fonts instead of just including them as image files?
Is there any benefit to doing it that way?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas