Re: SVG icons for HighContrast theme

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 21 Oct 2005, at 22:19, Thomas Wood wrote:

> 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.

We'd have to take it freedesktop.org first I'd imagine; it's the sort  
of thing you'd want written into the icon theming spec to ensure KDE  
etc. were using the same theme names.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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