Re: High Contrast Icons

[Eric Larson <elarson novell com>]

Hi, 

On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 20:47 -0500, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 13:42 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 22:40 +0000, Thomas Wood wrote:
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > How do we keep applications from overwriting each other's icons?
> 
> Don't name your application the same as another application, and
> namespace your icons appropriately? :) There is not really any good
> answer to this I guess. ...

It seems odd to me that we depend on a file name or specific URI to use
an icon. It seems that there is no reason for an icon to get a unique
key that the applications uses. Databases have done this for ages so I
don't see why there wouldn't be a file dispatcher or interface for
applications to register icons with in order to get a unique key.

Has this been discussed before? It seems that adding abstraction allows
for more flexibility and for better integration across desktops. 

Eric