Re: New mh-e toolbar icons

[Gerd Moellmann]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>      Maybe
>     it is better to put them in etc/images instead of /images, so there
>     is no need to introduce yet another EMACS...PATH environment
>     variable.
> 
> This would certainly simplify the job of making the change.
> No need to modify installation, or arrange to figure out where
> the directory is, etc.

The image code originally did that: it looked for images under
data-directory, and images were supposed to be referenced with
relative paths, for example "gnus/whatever".

> I just realized that we must continue to search for images through
> load-path, in the directories that contain Lisp code, for the sake of
> Lisp packages installed in places outside of Emacs itself.

...and that was the reason I changed the image code later to look for
images in load-path, after some discussion.

> We could still move the images that are part of the Emacs
> distro into a new etc/images directory.  

I believe I was told that XEmacs puts images in subdirectories of
data-directory.  That looks like a reasonable approach to me, if one
wants to concentrate the images in one place for some reason, and it's
reasonably simple to do, I think.