Re: [PATCHES] Implement monitor labeling in the RANDR code

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 13:51 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Le jeudi 14 août 2008, à 19:54 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero a écrit :
> > On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 21:47 +0100, James Westby wrote:
> > > Am I correct that the capplet still doesn't follow theme colours?
> > 
> > Correct.  Feel free to tweak make_palette() in
> > gnome-desktop/libgnome-desktop/gnome-rr-labeler.c :)
> 
> Also wondering if this could be an issue for accessibility -- I'd say
> yes, but it's a wild guess :-)

Every single time someone introduces a color-coded element of the GUI,
someone complains that it could be an accesibility issue.

I think it's time for the a11y people to solve this problem for good.

In GTK+ 2.10 we got the wonderfully obscure and underused
gtk_style_lookup_color() and color expressions in gtkrc files (e.g. so
you can do gtk_style_lookup_color (style, "spellcheck_squiggle")), but
so far these have been useless for color-coding arbitrary elements of
the GUI.  Maybe one could build a little API on top of these
(interpolate across several well-known symbolic color names?) to get
palettes suitable for color-coding.

  Federico