Re: SVG icons for HighContrast theme

[Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it>]

Il giorno ven, 21/10/2005 alle 22.19 +0100, Thomas Wood ha scritto: 
> On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 19:52 +0300, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 17:03 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
> > > Vaguely related, I'd personally like the onus of providing high contrast
> > > icons to move to the applications.  They're probably the only themes
> > > where every possible icon on the desktop really needs to be catered for,
> > > and it's ridiculous to try and do that centrally.  Applications are
> > > allowed to install icons into the hicolor theme; if we're really taking
> > > accessibility seriously, I believe the high contrast themes should have
> > > a similar status to hicolor.
> > 
> > Yeah. If an application calls itself "accessible", having high contrast
> > icons could be one of the requirements. Distributing the icons in the
> > apps themselves sounds like a way to avoid lagging the high contrast
> > theme behind the desktop.
> 
> Agreed. If we want to take action on this though, we'll need to disperse
> the icon theme out to all the individual projects and incorporate them
> into their build and install procedures. We would also have to make sure
> all new projects include a high contrast icon. The difficult part would
> be keeping tabs on existing projects to make sure they are always
> installing a high contrast version of their icons. Maybe it would be
> possible to build a script to check the current release modules and make
> sure they include a high contrast icon?

Should we provide some autotools macros (a-la gnome-doc-utils) to make
it easy for developers?