Re: "Why is emacs so square?"

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 11:42:44 +0200
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden>, 
>       Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
> Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> By the way, etc/images/README says:
> 
> * The default GTK icons were not overridden by the GNOME theme due to
> a bug which was fixed in GNOME 2.15. Once GNOME 2.16 is in wide
> circulation, the GTK icons should be replaced with the equivalent
> GNOME icons.
> 
> Does that mean there is some action that was planned but never
> performed?  Gnome 2.16 was released in 2006.

Please read this longish old discussion:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-02/msg00258.html

The answer to this question might be buried somewhere in it.