OSD symbols

[Nuno Pinheiro]

On Thursday, 10 de December de 2009 20:46:23 Rodney Dawes wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 21:07 +0100, Kenneth Wimer wrote:
> > On Tuesday 08 December 2009 03:38:15 pm Rodney Dawes wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 16:43 +0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
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> > > > Jakub Steiner wrote on 02/12/09 22:55:
> > > > >...
> > > > > What the important part here is that the color isn't defined in the
> > > > > icon itself, it's up to the widget theme to define in all sorts of
> > > > > different contexts like we have it for text. Eg. panel, menu,
> > > > > toolbar, when it's hovered over, disabled, that sort of thing.
> > > >
> > > > Maybe, but then someone would have to maintain a color naming
> > > > specification (however simple) alongside the icon naming
> > > > specification. I know of only one attempt to do something similar:
> > > > CSS system colors, which was a failure.
> > > > <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/ui.html#system-colors> We'd need to
> > > > identify what went wrong there and how not to repeat it.
> > >
> > > I don't think so. I think this should be handled as part of the
> > > symbolic addendum to the theme/naming specs. It should specify how to
> > > name, and how to design those icons so that we get the appropriate
> > > behavior with being able to alter the colors in the widget themes.
> > >
> > > This is important, because Qt or other widget sets may want to use the
> > > same icons in the same way, and we need to allow for the fact that they
> > > may not have the same states or color structure as GTK+. That said, I
> > > don't think we need to really care about things like warning and error
> > > colors. We just need to define that the paths that need to be drawn
> > > with the same colors as text, have the appropriate metadata tagging on
> > > them.
> >
> > I think that being able to add some colour is important. I suggest
> > allowing as many colour values as needed and including a fall-back
> > mechanism if any of those variables are not defined (to use just one
> > color as suggested).
> 
> Write the addendum, and we can discuss it better, since we'll have
> something tangible to alter. :)
> 
this may be a very silly idea but i thought i should share, couldn't it make 
sense to simply make a font with all the symbols you need, 

as i told you guys KDE is probably going to implement this type of icons 
inside plasma specific theming, and use this as fall back... still a font 
would do the job pretty well, i think :D I can be very wrong :D  


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