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Adjust icons shown with warnings
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Message #14 received at 60854 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
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 <at> 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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