Re: Re: rel-0-8-1; Default options are always used, even when package is loaded

Ralf Angeli <[email protected]> writes:

> * David Kastrup (2005-02-22) writes:
>
>>>> Sigh.  That is no roadworks sign.  That is an error indicator
>>>> (Danger ahead).  Ok, the mnemonic value of this icons suck.  Since
>>>> it is remarkably difficult to get a well-looking symmetric
>>>> exclamation mark and we are currently redesigning icons, anyway,
>>>> what icon do you propose instead for indicating an error?  A car
>>>> falling off into water?  A "STOP" sign?
>>>
>>> A flash of lightning, like a mathematical sign used after a proof by
>>> contradiction? A traffic sign smashed into pieces, flying apart? In
>>> any case I suggest to change the shape of the sign. Although we have
>>> been talking about manikins, I didn't actually look inside...
>>
>> Something like that?
>
> When I saw you proposal I first thought of stuff like
>
> \|/ ____ \|/
> "@'/ ,. \`@"
> /_| \__/ |_\
>    \__U_/

[...]

> Oh well ... GTK uses a stop sign in their stock icons, see
> <URL:http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-Stock-Items.html>.

Good think people post links.  You are probably referring to
#define     GTK_STOCK_DIALOG_ERROR
and this is

a) a _dialog_ error indicator
b) a one-way street sign.

Given the apparent cognitive capabilities of Emacs users, I don't see
how anything except a big blood red sign could even hope to register.
And it would appear that it is pretty irrelevant just what we place on
that sign.  Nobody will recognize it anyhow.

So I guess that I'll make a "one-way" street sign after all.
Distinctive shape, lots of red color.  Never mind the meaning.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


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