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Re: [g-i] fonts: a few thoughts



On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 09:47:01PM +0100, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
>> But if I am more visually impaired than the target of this theme, and
>> need bigger fonts?  Users should always have a chance to modify these
>> settings.
> 
> of course, you can change the font's size whenever you want, the GTK 
> frontend reparses the gtkrc file every time a question is displayed.

Please understand that if you are in front of a screen you cannot read,
there is not much you can do.  The boot prompt is much more accessible,
and boot parameters can be documented there.

>> BTW I am interested in implementing a theme similar to
>> HighContrastLargePrintInverse (found in gnome-accessibility-themes)
>> for the g-i, can you please roughly explain how to proceed?
> 
> It would look like the the attached PNG (simply don't mind the 
> background of the question's description and ext. desc: i will 
> un-hadrcode it from the GTK frontend as soon as we have a default theme).

Great work, it looks nice.  I made some experiments with this theme too,
and it seems that pixmaps are not used by the g-i, one only needs
/usr/share/themes/HighContrastLargePrintInverse/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
which is quite small.  This theme looks pretty usable to me with font
size set to 24.  There are some problems though:
 * As you mentioned, the background of questions is too bright.
 * Idem for scrollbars.  (Maybe the swirl color could be used here?)
 * With very large fonts, one has to scroll a lot with lists.  It would
   help if the selected item was viewable when choices are displayed
   first.

> To put a GTK theme inside the g-i ISO, simply copy the 
> /usr/share/themes/<my favourite theme> into the same place in the g-i 
> ISO and set the /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc file accordindly, like this
> 
> gtk-theme-name = "<my favourite theme>"
> 
> and of coyurse use the latest cdebconf from SVN.
> Is HighContrastLargePrintInverse GPL'ed?

It is, according to /usr/share/doc/gnome-accessibility-themes/copyright

> in this case we could package it into its own udeb (or maybe in the
> sabe udeb where also the default theme will be  placed too) after
> having stripped all the unused PNGs (actually
> HighContrastLargePrintInverse it's 576 kb big).
> By the way, how can we get someone to draw a default GTK theme for the 
> installer?
> I tried to contact James Olson <james.d_AT_earthlink.net> , author of 
> H20-gtk2-Ruby [1] but that email address no longer exists and i couldn't 
> fine another one.
> I also looked at debian-desktop but that's a really low-traffic where 
> spammers only usually post :(

This theme has been written by Sun folks, see
/usr/share/doc/gnome-accessibility-themes/AUTHORS
No idea whether they are interested in helping us.  You can also ask on
debian-accessibility@l.d.o.

Denis



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