Re: Icons and themes

["Matthias Clasen" <matthiasc poet de>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Havoc Pennington" <hp redhat com>
To: "Bill Haneman" <bill haneman sun com>
Cc: <gtk-devel-list gnome org>; <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 8:28 PM
Subject: Re: Icons and themes


>
> Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com> writes:
> > For accessibility, we need to provide the ability to use larger icons,
> > and to provide icons which have different visual characteristics
> > (high-contrast and low-contrast are the primary examples).  At a minimum
> > we need (to satisfy accessibility requirements) high-and-low-contrast
> > icons in both "standard" and "large" size.  (A single larger size should
> > suffice rather than a range of sizes, as users who need really big icons
> > probably would do better with an onscreen magnifier like the one that
> > the Gnopernicus project is building, or the sample magnifier utility in
> > at-spi).
>
> Have you looked at the syntax for overriding icons in rc files,
> documented here:
>
>   http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-resource-files.html
>
> This of course requires providing all the modified icons in PNG format
> though.

Why is the icon factory restricted to png files ? can't it load any file
format
which is understood by gdk-pixbuf ?



Matthias