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> From: Matthias Clasen <matthias.cla...@gmail.com> > Date: 2 March 2011 15:40:27 GMT > To: desktop-devel-list <desktop-devel-l...@gnome.org>, accessibility mailing > list <gnome-accessibility-de...@gnome.org>, release-t...@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 > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-l...@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland Ltd. mailto:calum.ben...@oracle.com Solaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Oracle Corp. _______________________________________________ gnome-themes-list mailing list gnome-themes-list@gnome.org To unsubscribe (and more): http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-themes-list