Re: SVG icons for HighContrast theme

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 17:03 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 13:09 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:

> > >               * dump out LowContrast icon theme: IMHO is better try to
> > >                 reduce the contrast through the theme engine: is it
> > > possible?
> > 
> > I'm pretty sure that is possible, although I don't know which engine the
> > Low Contrast theme is using.
> 
> It just uses the default gtk engine, whatever it's called these days.
> The low contrast icons are just created by tweaking the levels of the
> gnome/hicolor equivalents in GIMP, so presumably this would be easy
> enough to do programatically.

Having thought about what I originally said, I was only thinking of the
stock icons that are displayed through GTK+. It would be possible to
write an engine that displayed these in a different way (i.e. lower the
contrast), but it wouldn't be possible to affect how Nautilus displays
icons.

I think the best thing to do here is to write a script to convert the
current gnome-icon-theme to a low contrast version. I had a look at the
current low contrast icon theme, and it is an amazing mismatch of old
and obscure icons, not to mention the numerous missing icons as well. I
assume that a relatively simple shell script using ImageMagick could
convert most of the gnome-icon-theme to a low contrast version. Does
anyone know what the steps are in creating a low contrast version of an
icon (including precise parameters)?

-Thomas