Re: What icons should be included in HighContrast?

[Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>]

Luca Ferretti wrote:
> Il giorno lun, 04/02/2008 alle 13.22 +0100, Andreas Nilsson ha scritto:
>   
> > Hey all!
> > What is the advised method for 3rd party developers to install High 
> > Contrast application icons?
> > We currently have a lot of bugs against HighContrastSVG (that I tricked 
> > a ghop student to file, kind of :) sorry for that mess)
> >     
>
> Eh eh...
>
> BTW, OK to close as NOTGNOME all KDE related (by now kde provide its own
> HC theme...)?
>   
Not sure really.
> I'm not sure about Firefox, OO.o, Eclipse, Pidgin and other apps not
> included in GNOME Desktop but useful to GNOME users... Technically are
> NOTGNOME too....
>   
We could take the same approach as we do with the regular icon theme. 
Have them install the HC icon themselves.
>   
> > Currently a lot of app icons and stuff are shipped with HighContrastSVG 
> > in apps-extra etc., but perhaps it would be wiser to take a similar 
> > approach to the one gnome-icon-theme is taking and only ship icons 
> > included in the icon-naming-spec.
> >     
>
> Yeah, the <context>-extra directories are places to put available HC svg
> icons not defined in fd.o naming spec, waiting to put them directly in
> the relevant applications.
>
>   
> > Is there any place a application can install those in a safe manner though?
> >     
>
> My point of view is:
>       * provide all fd.o icons in HC-svg
>       * kill current PNG based HC
>       * rename HC-svg to HC
>       * make applications install their own HC icons in
>         $prefix/share/icons/HighContrast/scalable/<context>
>   
Hi Luca!
Sound like a good plan!
Perhaps we could have it inherit kde-icons-mono (the kde HC theme) so 
the desktop would pick up icons for the kde-apps.

- Andreas