Re: Time to install the new icons

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 08:13:01 -0800
> 
>     So should we install the single Windows .ico file sent in the above
>     message as the default Emacs icon on MS-Windows?  I'm not sure we've
>     reached a consensus on this.  Would people who use Emacs on Windows
>     look at that icon and speak up their minds?
> 
> 1. Could we please include different color-scheme versions of the (same)
> icons in the Windows exe?

That's a different issue.  We currently have only 2 types of icons:
for bright background and for dark background; no further color scheme
support is available.  I say let's first decide whether we want to
change the default icon, and if we do, let's after that see if we need
to provide more support for color schemes.

> I'm not a Windows expert, but I believe it is easier for a user to change
> the icon associated with a shortcut (to an app) than the icon associated
> directly with the app itself.

But we _are_ talking about an icon for a shortcut, since neither
emacs.exe nor runemacs.exe are themselves copied to the Desktop or to
the Start Menu.

> In the case of a shortcut, you just right-click it, choose
> Properties, click Change Icon..., and click the icon you want.

Did you actually try doing that with the shortcut to runemacs.exe?
When you click Properties->Change Icon for a shortcut, the list of
available shortcuts shows the ones mentioned in the emacs.rc file, not
the ones in the icons/ directory.  For the latter, you need to click
Browse and navigate to the icons/ directory (or type the directory
name directly).

> If changing the icon associated directly with an app is harder for users to
> do (e.g. change registry settings), then we might want to also provide
> shortcuts to runemacs.exe and emacs.exe (and gnuclientw.exe, if that's
> provided).

We do provide shortcuts to runemacs.exe, in the Start Menu.  That's
what "addpm /q" does in "make install".

> 2. You ask if we should include the single .ico file from Andrew's email.
> The only .ico file in that message is a 48x48 icon.

I think it's a 16x16 icon.  If you place the mouse pointer above it,
doesn't Windows tell you that?

Anyway, these are all technicalities not directly related to the
question I asked.  Do you like Andrew's icon, and would you like it to
be the default icon for Emacs on Windows (assuming that all the other
technicalities are resolved)?