Re: High-res Customize icons

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

On 23/04/2020 11.08, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Stefan Kangas <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:07:30 +0200
>> Cc: Emacs developers <address@hidden>
>>
>> Thinking about this a bit more, why did they choose to package the
>> icons up as ttf fonts instead of just including them as image files?
> 
> An excellent question, IMO.

I agree, but we need to solve two concrete issues with SVG scalable images 
before they are usable:

* Automatic scaling (changing the font size automatically resizes icon fonts, 
but not images)
* Adjusting the background color (currently the SVG renderer uses the 
background color of the default face, while icon fonts use the right background 
color)

Juri mentioned these issues in 
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-09/msg00414.html, and until 
we have a fix SVG isn't really usable as a replacement for icon fonts.

Clément.