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bug#60854: Adjust icons shown with warnings


From: Jim Porter
Subject: bug#60854: Adjust icons shown with warnings
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2023 11:30:10 -0800

On 1/16/2023 1:58 AM, Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors wrote:
Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <paaguti@gmail.com> writes:

Currently, warnings are visually "enhanced" with a ⛔ sign.
However, the warning signs are ⚠️ or its slightly different European
version.

I had the same question as you, but it turns out that the ⛔ icon is not
intended to represent a warning, it is a button that you can click to
*suppress* that warning type.

I think the confusion is that the literal meaning of the ⛔ icon is "No Entry", so it's very easy to read it as, "Stop! Don't go this way because there's a problem ahead."

Perhaps a bit better would be 🚫, whose official name is apparently "No Entry Sign", even though the slashed circle visual usually just means "No ____", e.g. "No Smoking". Hence, some sources call it the Prohibited emoji.

Another way to handle the UI (which I see more often, and personally prefer) is that the button is a toggle, and its icon indicates the current state. This would require adding a bit of code so that clicking the button again *un*suppresses the warning, but then you could use something like ⚠️ to indicate that the warning is currently enabled (and clicking it will suppress it), and maybe ⚪ or ⚬ to indicate that the warning is currently suppressed (and clicking it will reenable it). Or maybe ❗ and ❕, respectively?

We could also add actual images for this icon if none of these are quite right, and use the emoji as a fallback.





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