High contrast icons blocking Fedora releases - do we really want to?

[Elad Alfassa]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org>
wrote:

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>
> On 11/25/2014 09:37 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
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>> I would argue that if it's not visible to a partially sighted person
>> during install how are they to actually get the release installed.
>>
>
> Anaconda has a high-contrast icon (it was always there, for some reason it
> wasn't displaying at first) that works now. So accessibility in terms of
> launching the installer itself isn't an issue.
>
> The remaining problem is the welcome app doesn't have one. This is because
> the icon it uses is the Fedora logo and for various reasons we cannot
> produce a high contrast version of the Fedora logo. I don't think you can
> actually launch the welcome app anyway so it's an issue of it not having an
> icon in the dash / taskbar.
>
> ~m
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Oh, I understand.

Well,  in that case I think it shouldn't be a blocker at all. The launcher
policy was written about user-visible launchers. The welcome app is not one
of these, so the policy should not apply.

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-Elad Alfassa.
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