+1, too :) And yes, I am quite sure we didn't have the facility to switch icon sets in 2002 when implementing high contrast support.
Malte. Mathias Bauer wrote, On 01/25/08 18:28: > Christian Lippka - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote: > >> Hi fellow framework developers, >> >> currently OOo.org stores a high contrast icon for each icon. The high >> high contrast icon is mostly named like the normal icon with an >> attached "_h" to the file name. The high contrast icon should be used >> if the user switched his desktop to a high contrast theme. >> >> In the code there are some major hiccups since the feature to have >> high contrast icons where later added. So for example for most vcl >> controls you must do something like... >> >> aControl.SetHighContrastImage( Image( ResID(...) ); >> >> Nowadays we also support switching between different icon sets. >> For me it sounds like the high contrast icons are just a special >> icon set. So instead of having the high contrast icons beside >> the normal icons in each theme I propose to put all high contrast >> icons into a separate theme. This has two benefits >> >> 1. you do not need to deal with high contrast icons in the code >> that uses controls. Only the controls must be able to switch >> between icon theme, which most of them can do already. >> >> 2. If you create a new icon theme you do not have to add high contrast >> Images, as they are already available in their own theme. >> >> Thats my proposal, what do you think? > > +1 > > I always had problems to understand why "high contrast icons" should be > needed. Treating them as a theme sounds natural. > > I don't know why this was done in the first place - so even if we > obviously agree here we need to find out what basically was the reason > to go for an individual set of icons. So perhaps gsl would be a better > place to start. Maybe it was just because we implemented high contrast > mode before we had been able to switch icon themes?! > > Now the bad part: I don't think that we will have resources to do that > if the necessary effort is more than a few days of work. So what we > would need is a plan and some guestimations for the effort. > > Ciao, > Mathias > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
