1. Named Colous in GTK+

Colours are convenient way to designate special parts of the user interface and provide semantic information. This is a proposal for a default set of named colours so application developers can use theme-defined colours instead of using hardcoded colour values.

1.1. State colous

Designate application/element states (e.g. search field active => state-attention )

state-all-correct
state-normal
state-error
state-warning
state-attention
state-inconsistent

1.2. Priorities

priority-low
priority-normal
priority-high
priority-critical
priority-done

1.3. Hightlights

To be used in lists?

highlight-primary-foreground
hightlight-secondary-foreground
highlight-tertiary-foreground
...
hightlight-primary-background
hightlight-secondary-background
hightlight-tertiary-background
...

1.4. Theme default colours

These may be used to draw charts and the like.

color-first
color-second
color-third
...

1.5. Security

security-valid
security-revoked
security-broken
security-unsecure

1.6. User defined

Let the user color some elements? Nautilus folders and the like?

user-first
user-second
user-third
...