Ill vertical alignment

[memeplex]

When using all-the-icons with company-box and doom-modeline I'm seeing lots of alignment problems, some of which are really bad:

• company-box: see my report here Ill vertical alignment with all-the-icons sebastiencs/company-box#179
• doom-modeline: see my report here [Bug] Ill-alignment of file type and saved/unsaved icons seagle0128/doom-modeline#474

The icons in company-box-icons-all-the-icons come annotated with (raise -0.24), which is probably related to the issue, but this is not something company-box is doing AFAICS, but the way they are returned, already instrumented that way, by all-the-icons.

[memeplex]

I can fix the company-box issue by setting all-the-icons-default-adjust to 0 (default was -0.2). That's fine but it's still a global setting and I'm not sure I'm not breaking anything else, so what's the rationale to set it at -0.2 by default? Is it in order to compensate the default scale factor of 1.2? If that's the case it's not working properly.

OTOH the issue with doom modeline wasn't fixed by changing the default adjust. I have a couple of doubts then: is that first file icon coming from all-the-icons? If it is, then is it unaffected by all-the-icons-default-adjust because doom-modeline is doing its own thing on top of this?

[seagle0128]

In fact, both in all-the-icons and doom-modeline, there are many hardcoded values for :v-adjust. It's hard to align all icons. all-the-icons-default-adjust only impacts some icons, since the most of icons have set :v-adjust.

[memeplex]

Yes, I known it's a PITA. I hope with svg enabled by default in emacs different projects in the community may agree on at least one consistent svg icon set that can be included as part of all-the-icons. I suggested elsewhere using the vscode ones available in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-icons.