Re: new toolbar icons are problematic

[Dave Love]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     Also the PBM versions are now partly (mostly?) unrecognizable, whether
>     as a function of starting from colour ones with certain properties, or
>     of how the conversion was done.
>
> I am not sure what that means--"now partly unrecognizable".

If you view them all, e.g. with auto-image-file-mode, I think it's
obvious.

> Why are they less recognizable now than they were before?
> What changed in these PBM icons?

They're completely different.

Incidentally, I didn't know it when we did the toolbar, but the
non-portable XPM format images may not be necessary.  A variation on
the PBM format supports colour and is available in all Emacs ports.
It doesn't support transparency (as far as I know), or remapping the
colours in the image, but I don't think those are necessary for the
toolbar.