High Contrast Icons

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

There has been a discussion on gnome-themes-list about how we can 
improve the coverage of the high contrast icon theme. It was generally 
agreed that it was unrealistic to try and maintain icons for every 
application within GNOME in the high-contrast-theme itself. The 
alternative is that individual applications should be responsible for 
installing a high contrast icon into the high contrast theme.

If an application calls itself "accessible", having high contrast icons 
should be one of the requirements. Applications are allowed to install 
icons into the hicolor theme; if we're really taking accessibility 
seriously, then high contrast themes should have a similar status to 
hicolor.

The work for individual application maintainers is minimal. Most icons 
can simple be removed from the high contrast theme and added to their 
respective modules.

Does anyone have any comments on this idea, and how we can encourage 
maintainers to include high contrast icons? Accessibility is one of the 
cornerstones of GNOME, so it would be a shame to let it slip on this issue.


-Thomas