Re: Future of HighContrast-SVG [was Re: Gnome-themes releases and HighContrast-SVG]

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 09:22 +0200, Luca Ferretti wrote:

> Proposal: move it out from gnome-themes and create a new
> gnome-themes-accessibility (or gnome-accessibility-themes as in Ubuntu)
> module where we can develop new SVG icon themes (HighContrast and
> LargePrint to start).

You'd have to get the accessibility team to agree to this... they've
been strongly opposed in the past, as they don't want any core GNOME
accessibility features to appear arbitrarily "compartmentalised", either
to users, packagers or developers.  (Specifically, I think they're
worried that some distros may choose just not to ship some a11y
features, if it were made too convenient to do so.)

> BTW: tomorrow will be the Accessibility Summit. Can someone propose and
> discuss a new Preferences->Accessibility->Appearance capplet ? The
> capplet could be like this mochup[1] (yeah, it's inspired to MacOS
> preferences tool).

I won't be there, but FWIW I also suggested that this topic should be
discussed. (Although I didn't have any particular mockup in mind, it's
just a subject that's come up time and again.)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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