Re: Gnus no longer finds images

[Henrik Enberg]

Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 14 2005, Henrik Enberg wrote:
>
>> Due to the 2005-02-13 change in gnus.el, mm-util.el and smiley.el, Gnus
>> no longer finds its images.  Was the images supposed to be moved to
>> etc/images/gnus, or is the change bogus?
>
> Before that change, Gnus didn't find the (smiley) images in the
> default settings (unless you happen to have installed them e.g. from a
> stand-alone Gnus installation).
>
> Which kinds of Gnus images are missing?  Smileys, tool bar, mode line?
> The Gnus and smiley images should be installed in
> $PREFIX/share/emacs/22.0.50/etc/images/{gnus,smilies}.  Are the files
> installed there?

nope, but I don't have them in my CVS tree either.  There are no sticky
tags set and `cvs update won't fetch them for me.

> For the mode line and smileys, I get:
>
> ELISP> (let ((load-path (mm-image-load-path)))
>        (find-image '((:type xpm :file "gnus-pointer.xpm"
>                             :ascent center)
>                      (:type xbm :file "gnus-pointer.xbm"
>                             :ascent center))))
> (image :type xpm :file
>  "[prefix]/share/emacs/22.0.50/etc/images/gnus/gnus-pointer.xpm"
>  :ascent center) 

I get nil

> ELISP> smiley-data-directory
> "[prefix]/share/emacs/22.0.50/etc/images/smilies/"

likewise here