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Please include a high-contrast theme by default

Bug #30107 reported by Mantas Kriaučiūnas
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Bug Description

Default Ubuntu desktop shoud be accessible - should have high-contrast themes and big mouse cursors.
All polular operating systems, like MS Windows or Solaris has high-contrast accesibility themes and big mouse cursors as default - I think Ubuntu also shoud not discriminate people with disabilities.
I think ubuntu-desktop (or at least ubuntu-live) metapackage shoud depend on accesibility themes (gnome-accessibility-themes) and big mouse cursor themes (xcursor themes contains some big cursor but they are transparent, so not very accessible. It would be better to include not trasparent (high-contrast) big mouse cursor theme.

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote :

I think the reporter is asking that the themes be *installed* by default, not necessarily that they be active by default (since that is not the case on Windows.)

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

The cursor issue is already covered by bug #32365, and we need to deal with these separately, so consider this bug report to be about the theme issue only

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

Desktop team, any comment on gnome-accessibility-themes?

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Nickybatts (nickybatts) wrote :

This is not a bug, it is a suggestions for changing defaults disguised as a bug report. Please kindly reroute this discussion to an appropriate mailing list or a discussion forum.

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Nickybatts (nickybatts) wrote :

This is not a bug but a a suggestion for changing defaults.

Changed in ubuntu-meta:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote :

It's not a suggestion for changing the defaults -- the original text was a bit unclear. The suggestion is to change the default installation to support accessibility. As far as I know that's on topic for the bug tracker.

If you're speaking for the desktop team and would rather have some discussion elsewhere that's ok with me.

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status: Rejected → Confirmed
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

If we can afford the space on the CDs, I'm happy to get it done.

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AlanF (siminone) wrote :

thanks, this would be great if it is possible

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=161016

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Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik) wrote :

The the high contrast themes are now in dapper by default, though we will be making another change so that only one such theme will be installed by default and the others will be installable. See: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-art/2006-April/001181.html

Changed in ubuntu-meta:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote :

Are you splitting the package for reasons of size?

I have encountered in the past some people who can only comfortably read black-on-white and others who need white-on-black, so there is an accessibility cost to including only one. Both OS X and Windows, from memory, have both options available.

However, if it just won't fit I suppose one is better than none.

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

I believe the art team has a specification in progress for this

Changed in ubuntu-meta:
assignee: nobody → ubuntu-art
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the mean time:

daniel@bert:~$ apt-cache rdepends gnome-accessibility-themes
gnome-accessibility-themes
Reverse Depends:
  gnome-desktop-environment
  xubuntu-desktop
  ubuntu-desktop
  edubuntu-desktop
daniel@bert:~$

Changed in ubuntu-artwork:
assignee: ubuntu-art → nobody
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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