On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 09:05 -0600, Ted Gould wrote: > > > > I don't think anything replacing individual colors is going to work very > > well in general. I was thinking you'd probably have to do something the > > color rotation in the gimp: convert to hls, rotate to map hue in icon to > > hue of theme color, then convert back. That would let you have 'red' as > > alert color in your icon and e.g. purple in the theme, and let you map > > all shades of red in the icon to shades of purple. > > I strongly believe that we shouldn't do any automatic choosing of color, > and just allow the theme to set symbolic color names that are passed > into the SVG as named colors. So a theme could set a "warning_color" > and adjust that based on what colors work. Computers suck at choosing > colors and there becomes a11y issues as well.
I didn't talk about automatic choosing of colors, I was talking about the fact that being restricted to a single shade of red is not optimal, even in a mostly-monochromatic icon. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg