Re: Feature proposal: combined system status menu

[meg ford <meg387 gmail com>]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Allan Day <allanpday gmail com> wrote:

> But on non-touch screens, some people like my mom (whose eyesight is not
> so great these days) could also benefit from bigger icons, or at least
> *more contrasty* icons.

Dude, they couldn't have any more contrast.

Well, they could. It sounds like your mom might benefit from High Contrast, Federico, although afaik it doesn't affect the icons in the shell. The magnifier's contrast settings do; maybe try that?

> The other day she called me as she couldn't
> figure out how to increase the volume.  It turns out that audio was
> muted, and what gnome-shell shows in that case is a dark gray audio icon
> with a tiny little "X" on its corner.
>
> The dark gray icon (around 25% gray) has very little contrast with
> respect to its surrounding black bar (0% gray).  The apparent contrast
> is even less since often what you have directy below the icon is the
> very-lightly-colored titlebar of a window (... with a white content
> area), so the dark gray audio icon is hard to see.

Seems like an obvious bug with the volume icon - did you file a report?

This isn't a bug. He's talking about the fact that the titlebars of the windows are light-colored, and therefore the icon colors seem less distinct in comparison.

Meg Ford