GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 115981
Screenreader should appear in Applications menu
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Gnopernicus needs to install an appropriate .desktop file so that the screenreader appears on the GNOME Applications menu. Consensus seemed to be that Applications->Accessibility->Screenreader would be an appropriate menu item for this. (The actual application name, Gnopernicus in this case, isn't supposed to be shown in the menus for core GNOME components, according to the HIG).
Oh, I guess the magnifier should too... Applications->Accessibility->Magnifier.
Needs fixing before UI freeze, right?
I would imagine so (July 7th)... not sure whether a .desktop file really constitutes UI or not but no point making trouble for ourselves if we can avoid it :)
Created attachment 17974 [details] Sample icon for gnopernicus (48x48)
Gnopernicus is now installing the .desktop file so that the screenreader appears on the GNOME Applications menu : Applications->Accessibility->Screen Reader and Magnifier (to comply with GNOME HIG 1.0). Indeed the Accessibility submenu is not there yet, so you could check in Others. I've created an icon too (of 48x48 size), but I did add it as a sample, not as "THE ICON" (I feel that it is too crowded for an icon and maybe the penguin makes users belive that gnopernicus works only in linux). I am attaching the icon to this bug, so anybody who has talent/disposition/desire etc. and knows about HIG & icons, please help! Calum, I saw that you did a good job for GOK, maybe you might want to help here ?! ;-)
I think the icon is too Linux-focused. If you use a figure of some sort, I'd make it the four-toed GNOME foot figure. The attached icon also fails to convey magnification. You might take a look at the icons used for outSPOKEN and inLARGE (a magnifying lens and a speech bubble) for inspiration. See: http://www.aagi.com/catalogue/ProductType.asp?Access
Peter - calum has created rather similar icons for the accessibility "At support capplet" already, so these could be leveraged.
Here's a couple of options, the one with the braille character in particular looks a little too much like the Accessibility->AT Support icon to me though :/
Created attachment 18089 [details] Another sample icon for gnopernicus (48x48)
Created attachment 18090 [details] And another...
Created attachment 18091 [details] Version without any transparency on the speech bubble, since it didn't make much sense really :)
Created attachment 18092 [details] A touch more colour in this one...
Created attachment 18093 [details] This one combines the elements a bit differently
Hi Calum, Thanks a lot for the icon-design! My personal favor is 18092, so if nobody disagrees I would like you to commit it into CVS. Peter, do you agree that it is the right one? Maybe I am too pushing (sorry for that), but do you think that you could provide us the same image in a bigger size, so we can use it in the "About" dialog as logo (like gedit does). Should the logo be diffrent from the icon (like it is at gok)? Thanks, Adi
Good point regarding GOK adi, (see new bug 116881).
Of all of them, I think Calum's #18092 is the best. But... if I may make a suggestion (everyone's a critic, eh?): consider making the Braille dots a bit smaller, and placing the magnifying lens over some of those dots to really illustrate them magnified. Also consider modifying the magnifying lens handle some to make it more visible (moving the lens more over the dots should also move the handle to the while application background, which might also serve to make it more vislble.
Can I suggest we try and get #18092 in the build today then, if possible (since it's community UI freeze today), and I'll suggest as part of the upcoming GNOME ui-review that we do "a better icon" along the lines that Peter suggests. By making it a ui-review comment, the post-freeze change will hopefully be allowed. :)
Makes sense to me. Let's put #18092 in today.
I agree, so Calum please make the commit with the currently chosen icon. Thanks.
Done. Will close this bug since it was really about the complete non-existence of a menu item, and open another one for an "improved icon" when we do the community ui review.