Including High Contrast icons in AppStream metadata
by Richard Hughes
Hi all,
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746283 details a
high-contrast partially sighted user seeing hi-color application icons
which don't match what he sees in the shell when the application is
installed. The proposal is that we ship the high-contrast application
icons in the distro/bundle icon tarball and reference them in the XML.
We can easily namespace them in the icon tarball but we'd need some
way of tagging them in the XML. Something like <icon
variant="symbolic"/> or something like that. Perhaps we should just
stat the icon name "-symbolic" as well when loading under HC, although
this seems a bit magic.
Is this something we want? Certainly partially sighted users are not
the largest of our users, but I think this would help a lot. Most of
the apps upstream do not ship HC icons (i.e. it's mostly GNOME) and so
it shouldn't blow up the size too much.
Richard
8 years, 1 month
Including High Contrast icons in AppStream metadata
by Richard Hughes
Hi all,
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746283 details a
high-contrast partially sighted user seeing hi-color application icons
which don't match what he sees in the shell when the application is
installed. The proposal is that we ship the high-contrast application
icons in the distro/bundle icon tarball and reference them in the XML.
We can easily namespace them in the icon tarball but we'd need some
way of tagging them in the XML. Something like <icon
variant="symbolic"/> or something like that. Perhaps we should just
stat the icon name "-symbolic" as well when loading under HC, although
this seems a bit magic.
Is this something we want? Certainly partially sighted users are not
the largest of our users, but I think this would help a lot. Most of
the apps upstream do not ship HC icons (i.e. it's mostly GNOME) and so
it shouldn't blow up the size too much.
Richard
8 years, 1 month