Re: High Contrast Icons

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Hi,

On lun, 2005-11-21 at 22:40 +0000, Thomas Wood wrote:
> There has been a discussion on gnome-themes-list about how we can 
> improve the coverage of the high contrast icon theme. It was generally 
> agreed that it was unrealistic to try and maintain icons for every 
> application within GNOME in the high-contrast-theme itself. The 
> alternative is that individual applications should be responsible for 
> installing a high contrast icon into the high contrast theme.
> 
> If an application calls itself "accessible", having high contrast icons 
> should be one of the requirements. Applications are allowed to install 
> icons into the hicolor theme; if we're really taking accessibility 
> seriously, then high contrast themes should have a similar status to 
> hicolor.
> 
> The work for individual application maintainers is minimal. Most icons 
> can simple be removed from the high contrast theme and added to their 
> respective modules.
> 
> Does anyone have any comments on this idea, and how we can encourage 
> maintainers to include high contrast icons? Accessibility is one of the 
> cornerstones of GNOME, so it would be a shame to let it slip on this issue.

Does it mean that the apps should depend on gnome-themes (or the modules
where the HighContrast theme is) at installation time?

Vincent

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