Re: "Why is emacs so square?"

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 23.04.2020 18:04, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 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.

I've made an attempt, but the discussion is about copyright and 
providence of files, whereas the note seems to be about some functional 
problem.

I don't really understand it what it recommends we do now. It would seem 
as if GNOME icons can override GTK ones now (in some case where it 
couldn't before (?)), we could distribute GTK icons now and rely on 
GNOME to override them as appropriate?