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31.0.50; [PATCH] Stop using the "stop" sign for all warning levels

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From: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, juri <at> linkov.net, 77917 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, yantar92 <at> posteo.net, prot <at> protesilaos.com
Subject: bug#77917: 31.0.50; [PATCH] Stop using the "stop" sign for all warning levels
Date: Thu, 08 May 2025 20:53:17 +0200

Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com> writes:

>>>>>> On Tue, 06 May 2025 18:38:44 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> said:
>
>     >> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
>     >> Cc: juri <at> linkov.net,  yantar92 <at> posteo.net,  77917 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
>     >> prot <at> protesilaos.com
>     >> Date: Tue, 06 May 2025 14:53:49 +0200
>     >> 
>     >> >>>>> On Tue, 06 May 2025 14:29:34 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> said:
>     >> 
>     Eli> Really?  So we've just made another full circle back to the beginning?
>     Eli> Where someone said, and I agree, that showing ⚠️ explains itself worse
>     Eli> than the existing symbol, because it could be easily interpreted as
>     Eli> meaning just "Warning".
>     >> 
>     >> But ⛔ means "you have done something wrong", at least to some.
>
>     Eli> Which is why someone suggested to use ✖ or ❌.
>
> OK
>
>     >> How about we just drop the icon completely?
>
>     Eli> And go for another circle?  It was you who suggested to go back to am
>     Eli> icon, based on an example of a similar feature posted by Juri.
>
> OK, in that case we need the right icon, and a text button at the end
> of the warning message.

In case that can help, I think this is more or less what this patch on
bug#61413 does: (with screenshot)

<https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=61413#108>

Direct link to the patch:
<https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?filename=0001-Use-plain-text-for-warning-supression-button.patch;bug=61413;msg=108;att=1>

Screenshot:
<https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?att=2;msg=108;bug=61413;filename=Screenshot_20250223_163540.png>

Similar to Juri's latest patch; in short,

* stop using the "warnings-suppress" icon; keep it for
  backward-compatibility in case there are out-of-tree users,
* insert a new plain "warning" icon (with SVG representation that can
  use the 'warning face),
* add a text button for suppression.

(The main feedback on that patch, IIRC, was that the 'button face looks
too much like a link instead of something like 'custom-button.  Wasn't
sure where to go from there so dropped the ball after that; thank y'all
for picking it back up here)

(There was also a FIXME for a problem that Juri solved in the other
subthread by just inserting "\n" instead of calling 'newline, AFAIU)

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