[ubuntu-art] A call for icons: gnome-accessibility-theme

[Andreas Nilsson]

Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There is a set of four high contrast themes for gnome which seem 
> pretty effective, but the icon sets are incomplete which makes 
> everything rather untidy. To see what I mean install the package 
> gnome-accessibility-themes and select one of the high contrast themes. 
> You will see that some menu entries and applications are fairly 
> complete, while others only partially so. This image shows openoffice, 
> which is the worst offender not using any high contrast icons at all, 
> behind gedit which is complete: 
> http://people.ubuntu.com/~henrik/images/contrast-icons.png
>
> I've filed a bug on openoffice since it seems not to know about the 
> existing high contrast icons:
>
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org2-amd64/+bug/27191 
>
>
> but the icon set itself is limited too. It might actually be that most 
> of the gaps can be filled by setting suitable symlinks to existing 
> icons (like making the firefox icon point at gnome-globe.png)
>
> Does someone want to chart this set against the list at 
> http://daniel.holba.ch/ubuntu/ic/ and see what can be done to make it 
> more complete (or appear more complete)?
>
> - Henrik
>
If some icons are missing in the high-contrast theme, check out the 
kde-icon-mono package. There is quite a collection of icons in there so 
hopefully it will be easier to fill the gaps in the high contrast theme 
for gnome (and hopefully when the icon-naming-spec gets supported by the 
two big desktops they can merge).
- Andreas