Fwd: A11y themes in GNOME3

[Calum Benson <calum benson oracle com>]

FYI.

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> From: Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>
> Date: 2 March 2011 15:40:27 GMT
> To: desktop-devel-list <desktop-devel-list gnome org>, accessibility mailing list <gnome-accessibility-devel gnome org>, release-team gnome org
> Subject: A11y themes in GNOME3
> 
> Hey,
> 
> I've spent some time yesterday working on the HighContrast.
> LowContrast and Inverse themes. I thought I should post a quick note
> about a11y themes in GNOME 3, so people know what things currently
> work, what things don't, and where things live.
> 
> The Contrast control in the universal access panel sets both the gtk
> theme and the icon theme to the same value, the options being
> HighContrast, LowContrast and HighContrastInverse. The high contrast
> switch in the universal access menu of the shell does the same (just
> for HighContrast, obviously), as does the toggle-contrast keybinding
> that is implemented in g-s-d. The meta-theme information in the
> /usr/share/themes/<theme>/index.theme files _is ignored_. When
> metacity/mutter move to gsettings, we might consider adding the
> metacity theme to the set of components that are set for Contrast. And
> maybe it makes sense to tie the cursor and icon size to the text size
> control, not sure. But for now, these theme components are not
> affected at all, so if you want to need a different cursor theme or
> size, you have to go directly to gsettings.
> 
> The a11y themes for gtk2 used to live in gnome-themes. They did not
> really have matching icon themes and instead relied on setting stock
> icons in rc files. Carlos has added a11y themes for gtk3 to
> gnome-theme-standards last week. Yesterday, I have added gtk2 rc files
> there too, and also created matching icon themes reusing icons found
> in gnome-themes, mostly. This means that the three a11y themes that
> are available from the universal access panel should work reasonably
> for both gtk2 and gtk3. The icon themes are far from complete; help in
> improving their coverage would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> For distributors, this means that it should be safe to consider
> gnome-themes obsolete for GNOME 3. Keep in mind that you will have to
> make gnome-themes-standard depend on gtk2-engines, in order for the
> gtk2 themes to work.
> 
> 
> Matthias
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