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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: CrystalSVG
From:       Sashmit Bhaduri <smt () inbox ! lv>
Date:       2003-12-05 0:34:19
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Quoting James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj@acm.org>:
> To the extent that this is a usability issue, the solution is simple.  If a
> user chooses: "KDEClasic" as his icon theme, he shouldn't see any CrystalSVG 
> icons.  It was my understanding that this is how KDE was originally 
> designed.  If recent changes have somehow changed this, then they need to be 
> fixed.

Nope, kiconloader has never worked like that, as long as it has supported icon 
themes. The problem is that that not all icon themes, like hicolor (kdeclassic) 
are complete. If a icon is not found in a particular icon set, it shouldn't 
display a blank or generic icon, so it tries to grab a icon from the parent 
set. I beleive that you can set what a icon set inherits by editing the Icon 
theme to include a "Inherits" field. If no such field exists, it grabs icons 
from crystalsvg, which is the default icon set for kde > 3.1. If it doesn't 
find a icon in the parent icon set, it displays a generic icon AFAIK. 

Of course most users aren't going to be able to manually edit their icon theme, 
so perhaps you should ask the kde-accessibility folks to add an option 
somewhere in the accessibility kcm's to override icon theme settings to a more 
suitable icon theme for people like yourself with visual impairments. 

We have a three fold situation in terms of what kind of people exist:

People who have no visual impairment - All icon sets are readibily usable
People who have mild visual impairment - Use an icon set that is more 
accessibile, or futz around with the Icon Effects in kcmicons. 
People with severe visual impairment or are blind - Unfortunatly, such advanced 
accessibility needs won't be served until KDE 4.0 (relies on Qt 4.0)

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