Re: New Note Types

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Sun, 2010-04-11 at 12:22 +0200, Milo Casagrande wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 2010/3/28 Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I'm thinking about note styles and getting icons in place
> > for all of them. Currently, the following note styles are
> > recommended:
> >
> > * advanced
> > * important
> > * note (default)
> > * tip
> > * warning
> >
> > We don't actually have an icon for "advanced" yet. I'd
> > like to add these two:
> >
> > * accessibility
> > * package
> >
> > We'd use "package" for any note that says "You have to
> > install X to get feature Y."
> >
> > I was also thinking of letting you use some note styles
> > on sections, and Yelp would put the note icon near the
> > section title, maybe float right. I'm thinking of pages
> > like "Move the pieces" in Gnotravex, where there's an
> > entire section "Avoid the click-and-hold" which could
> > be considered to be an extended accessibility note.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> 
> I was thinking about this. I like the idea of having two new style for
> notes, and also the note styles on sections, but something came to my
> mind: how can we handle a11y enabled icons?
> IWhen you use Yelp with an a11y theme, its color scheme adapts to that
> of the system theme, can we have icons that adapts to that too?
> We talked in another thread abount having images that will change
> based on system installed icons, shouldn't we consider that here in
> this case too?

The icons used for the notes are already looked up from the
icon theme. We can override them right now without any extra
code. It's just that nobody's done the icons.

--
Shaun