On Sun, 2 Jan 2022, 14:22 Eirik Bakke, <[email protected]> wrote:

> > What I mean is I assume you want a limited consistent set of colours
> (pallette) across all icons?
>
> The existing bitmap icons already have a good color scheme that does this
> (designed by Leos Tronicek [1]). But it doesn't lend itself well to the
> concept of a single "accent" color that can be changed arbitrarily, since
> the icons are colorful rather than monotone or duetone. Personally, I think
> that's fine, and a good contrast to the IntelliJ style.
>

I think you're missing my point. This has nothing to do with single accent
colours, changing the default palette or platform applications.

I'm asking to try and have semantic classes for all colourings in the SVGs.
Relying on colour filtering of the rasterized icons for eg. dark themes
makes no sense when we can style the SVG data before rasterization with
semantic information intact. After rasterization nothing tells you why a
particular part of the icon is red or yellow. We can then style icons far
more easily from a central point.

I always wanted to switch to logical icons managed in a central way, along
the lines of the xdg spec, but at least having one place to alter the
palette is an improvement.

Best wishes,

Neil

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