On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 11:49 +0100, Luca Ferretti wrote: > Here [1] is a page about application specific themable icons (named > icons installed by application outside the system-wide hicolor > directory). > > Feel free to edit (by now it's just a draf), implement suggested changes > in your applications and add new subpages listing icons installed by > your application[2] (useful for theme maker people). > > Thanks to Rodney Dawes for the original idea[3]. > > [1] http://live.gnome.org/ThemableAppIcons > [2] http://live.gnome.org/ThemableAppIcons/EpiphanySpecificIcons > [3] http://wayofthemonkey.com/index.php?date=2006-11-15&month=11&year=2006
I participated a bit in some of the xdg-list discussions about doing this, and I was a big proponent of having the application theme directory contain directories for each theme, rather than just have a single set of fallback icons. For me, the big reason was that applications could provide accessibility versions of all their custom icons. What I also wanted was a standard "fallback" theme for each of our accessibility themes, much like hicolor is a fallback for other themes. That is, our actual high contrast theme would continue to be HighContrast, but it would inherit from some other theme, like hicontrast. That would, in turn, inherit from hicolor. Applications could then install high contrast versions of all their custom icons in hicontrast. Perhaps Rodney knows if there was any further discussion about this. It would certainly be nice for applications to be able to provide for accessibility needs without being tied to one desktop. And the current trend of having our accessibility themes try to provide everything for every application just doesn't scale. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ gnome-themes-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-themes-list
