Re: application specific themeable icons

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Rodney Dawes wrote On 01/16/07 14:14,:

> On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 13:21 +0000, Bill Haneman wrote:
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> > I have to disagree here.  While it's a nice idea with some utility, and 
> > Andy is to be thanked for doing the work, it simply cannot deliver the 
> > goal of readily differentiable monochrome icons across the desktop - the 
> > stock graphics are just too 'busy'.  There's really no substitute for 
> > purpose-built bold, monochrome icons.
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> This is just not true. The way the automation works, is that it doesn't
> use all of the detail of the original icon. It does add a little more
> work to creating the icons, but not as much as actually creating an
> entirely separate theme. What you do is use certain names for elements
> in the icon, and the automation code ignores other elements and only
> shows the appropriate paths, for the type of a11y icon needed.
>
> You really should look into what he's doing and how he's doing it,
> before you just write it off completely.
>  

There's a difference between this approach of successive detail, and the 
approach of purpose-built icons.  I stand by my previous statement.

Bill

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