Brian et al. We are not planning on incorporating the tango project icons on JDS because we are in the process of creating a comprehensive set of Sun branded icons to replace what we currently have. However, some of the symbolism will shift to match Tango icons. Now WRT a11y icons, we certainly realize that the current set is totally insufficient. There is no set plan to create new large print icons but we can batch process the new icons for low and high contrast themes. However, in the design process, vector graphics are being generated that will hopefully enable production of large print icons when we get to that.
I wish I could say that the large print icons were forthcoming but it's just me making icons right now so it's one step at a time. Cheers, m. Mike Stern Visual Designer, xDesign 650 / 786-6542 mike.stern at sun.com On Apr 19, 2006, at 1:28 PM, Brian Cameron wrote: > > John: > > Some more ideas of projects that we could do. > > + We know that there are many missing a11y icons, and general work in > the GNOME community migrating to the Tango icons, general usability > and HIG problems. It would be great to get some icon designers to > help flesh out a11y icons. > > + User docs, API docs, and manpages are other areas where the GNOME > community could use more help. There might be tech writers out > there > who would be interested in working on improving these areas. > > + QA Testing. We have a lot of interesting in-house experience doing > things like testing a11y. I'd think there would be people out there > who would get into a mentor relationship where they learned the ins > and outs of a11y QA testing, especially with Section 508 > requirements > becoming more of an issue for many organizations. > > + a11y. I'm sure the a11y team could think of a number of projects > that would be interesting. Dictation software, magnification using > compositing, getting libgail to stop using libgnomecanvas, and > writing ORCA scripts are ideas that come to mind. > > Brian > > >> Jim Grisanzio has kicked this off as a general request for >> participation from all the OpenSolaris projects: >> http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=7878&tstart=0 >> Anyone any desktop related ideas that would be suitable? >> Easy: >> Add Gnome Applet support as sample project in Netbeans - using >> Java Gnome bindings. >> Medium: >> Reduce memory consumption of Gtk+ hello world application. >> Hard: >> Modify Firefox's tabbing behaviour to allow it to run with reduced >> memory requirements, only hold images in memory for currently >> visible tab. Plenty of other optimisations that could be looked at >> to allow Firefox to run better ina memory constrained environment. >> Darren - I'm sure you have loads from the Linux gaps analysis and >> the System Tools project, so just fire ahead. >> Glynn - I assume the best thing here is for you to put up a Google >> Summer of Code page on the OpenSolaris Desktop home page, that Jim >> can point to. >> JR >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-discuss mailing list >> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20060421/a9f8363b/attachment.html>
