Re: Nautilus accessibility

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

Dave Bordoley wrote:
> 
> Reading some of the posts about accessibility, i've noticed that there
> is a consensus that all apps must be themable by gtk to meet government
> standards. My question than is, is it an accessibility issue that the
> nautilus icon view, list view and sidebar are only themable through
> nautilus. 

I would say yes, ideally Nautilus would at least have a 'use system
default theme' option that chose appropriate colours, and fonts for all
its elements from the gtk theme (and of course dynamically updated them
when the user changed themes).

> would this apply to the icons as well?

When we have scaleable icons as part of gtk themes, and therefore a
system-wide icon size setting that Nautilus could utilize, then yes, I
would imagine so.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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