Calum Benson wrote:
(Snipping Suzanna, who no longer works at Sun, and adding Bill who I
don't think is on the XDG list.)
On 26 Nov 2005, at 14:42, Thomas Wood wrote:
High contrast icons should be designed such that they are visible
on a black backgrounds, as well as white. The icons should also
designed such that they can be easily inverted to create a High
Contrast Invert themes. I am also CC'ing the maintainers of the GNOME
High Contrast theme to get their comments on how to go about creating
good high contrast icons.
The HIG already includes design guidelines for high contrast icons:
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig_new/icons-
design-accessible.html
This is much better than my one paragraph attempt. Should we link to the
page, or create an extra section in the spec for this?
Some other thoughts:
- There's also the question of low contrast icons, but I think it was
previously suggested that they'd be better rendered on the fly (by
adjusting the colour values of the 'regular') by a low contrast theme
engine. Does this still sound plausible/sensible to everyone?
Creating the low contrast icons can be done automatically as you
suggest, so I don't think it would be a good idea to burden developers
with having to do more work to get their application "accessible" than
is strictly necessary.
- The high and low contrast icon themes still have separate large print
versions, but since they're identical to the regular versions, they're
now hidden in the UI (rather than not installed at all, because of
potential upgrade problems described in http://
bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168977). Should we mention that the
large print versions of the high and low contrast icon themes are
deprecated? (Or does anyone have any thoughts on how we can gracefully
get rid of them altogether?)
I noticed that the "HighContrast" icon theme in GNOME is actually blank,
and it is the icons in HighContrastLargePrint that are actually used. I
would suggest we swap this and depreciate the LargePrint versions. I
think we will have to bite the bullet on the 'upgrade path' problem and
just remove them. The worst case is someone will just have to re-select
the high contrast icon theme from the theme capplet.
However, this is a GNOME issue that needs to be addressed separately.
For the purposes of the icon theme spec, I think we should stick to just
HighContrast and not mention the others.
-Thomas
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