Re: Future of HighContrast-SVG

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

Calum Benson wrote:
> 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.)

Isn't this what Ubuntu do already?

gnome-accessibility-themes - accessibility themes for the GNOME 2 desktop

gnome-themes - official themes for the GNOME 2 desktop


-Thomas