[Usability] Re: Black and white notification icons/ Popups

[Daniel Brodie <daniel brodienet com>]

On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 19:01 +0100, Manu Cornet wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> > > I would suggest adding some remarks to the HIG to use black and white
> > > most of the time and using color signals first before popping up a
> > > dialog. What are your ideas about it?
> > 
> > We were discussing about it a couple of days ago, but I don't think a
> > conclusion was reached. I would agree totally, although not
> > necessarily B&W but two-colors, those being determined by the
> > theme....
> 
> I am volunteer to make the icons design, if needed. I have been working
> a bit on the panel recently, but I am still a little unfamiliar with
> "standard" procedures for doing this : should I be
> telling/asking/warning anyone else before I start trying to work on
> those ?
> 
> Many icons won't require a lot of work, but some of them might a little
> mindwork to make them two-tone. I think I'll just choose a color (for
> example, the default Clearlooks blue), make them blue+white, and let
> this blue easy to change into something else.

How about making the design with only two colors, so they can be changed
automatically (programatically) by the theme. This should be managable
with both SVG and png icons.

So say in the gtkrc the fore and back color are set, and the icons are
automatically updated with no user intervention.

Daniel