Yikes, I guess I haven't read xdg-list in a while... On 10 Feb 2008, at 03:50, Shaun McCance wrote:
> I don't know if any other desktops provide similar themes > for accessibility KDE does... > , but it would be nice to have a set of > freedesktop-specified fallback icon themes that specific > accessibility themes can inherit from. So, for example, > we would define the hicontrast theme. Applications would > install high contrast versions of their icons into that > theme, and Gnome's HighContrast theme would inherit from > hicontrast. > > Like hicolor, the accessibility fallback themes wouldn't > be "real" themes, in that there wouldn't be any actual > package that provides icons for them. They would simply > be a place for application-specific icons that should be > used whenever an actual accessibility theme is used. > > This would allow us to encourage developers to provide > icons for accessibility themes without asking them to > tie themselves to Gnome. > > Thoughts? As maintainer of some of the GNOME high contrast themes, I would very much like to see this happen. It's been proposed a couple of times before, although with a different implementation (yours sounds better, on the face of it): <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2005-November/005946.html> Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
