Linux mint cinnamon for the partialy blind

[DanaRoch]

I am starting a project to create a desktop environment for people with severely limited vision , by adapting Linux mint cinnamon. I have managed to create some useful colour themes with 00max. However there are a few bugs as it is not up to date with Zara. AS I am very new to coding in Linux. Is there a guide to creating a theme with Cinnamon spices?
Also , once I have several themes I need to develop a very simple way for partially sighted people to choose a theme. Once completed it would be a mint os specifically for the almost blind. There is technology out there already and I have tried lots of it. But I can tell you it often falls short of the mark! Also a lot of it is very expensive. Ideally a menu integrated into the system allowing to make basic colour choices for fonts and system menu backgrounds would be best.
Any advice or assistance would be greatly appreciated.

[JosephMcc]

The easiest to learn to create a theme is grab something like the default theme and learn how to build and modify. Then start experimenting. It's really not the complex.

[mtwebster]

Take a look at the README for the theme spices repo:
https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-spices-themes

[cplittlfield]

Bless you for this work. 🙇‍♂️

The current design ethos doesn't work for those of us whose eyes are merely old, let alone for people with severely limited vision. I would strongly suggest more and stronger (but not garish) colors and plenty of contrast.

For example, those fashionable white dialogues with pale grey borders appearing on white backgrounds are practically invisible, as are those popular black dialogues with dark charcoal borders against black backgrounds. For mercy's sake, at least put a contrasting border in there! And if you can do something to make the cursor stand out, that, too, would be helpful. Even with a large, oxy-red cursor, I still keep losing track of the dratted thing. Those of us whose eyes are no longer 23 will bless you.

[billyswong]

In MATE/Compiz, there is a "Show Mouse" plugin. I can toggle a huge red crosshair overlay covering the whole screen. Anyone with less than zero vision can see where the mouse is.

Maybe Cinnamon can add that too.

[DanaRoch]

This is what I have come up with so far using Themix 00Max.
The colour scheme works Very well for me. However, for some people, different colour schemes may be necessary. That is why 00Max works very well to quickly create any number of colour schemes. The only real bug that I’m having trouble with is the size of the header buttons for opening, closing, minimizing, and maximizing Windows. Is there a code that I can use in the terminal to adjust this? If you look at the before and after pictures of what I have done with the OS, I think that you can see it is now well adapted for people with very low vision. A few more tweaks and once it is completed I can create an ISO and have it available to either download or I can put it on a USB key and send it to those who prefer that method.

For my project the desktop has to be per-configured in this fashion. Believe me, it is very difficult for people who are partially sighted to do this on their own from scratch. I should know I currently have less than five percent vision or roughly twenty over four hundred. It took me days to create this. If someone can help with the larger buttons for the header open close tools, that would greatly speed things up. Time is of the essence as my sight continues to deteriorate with age. I sincerely believe that I will be able to help countless people around the world once my project is up and running. To all for taking the time to read these posts.

[DanaRoch]

I should have mentioned that I am using a twenty-seven inch high resolution monitor. The pictures look much better on that than posted here.

[DanaRoch]

I need to know where I can place this snippet of code In this ThemiX file.
I want to try to make the open and closed minimize maximize buttons bigger.
css
headerbar button.titlebutton, headerbar button.titlebutton image {
min-width: 30px;
min-height: 30px;
-gtk-icon-transform: scale(1.5);
}

[DanaRoch]

I have managed to edit the GTK 3.20 to make the buttons bigger.
Everything is working now. However, it would be nice to clean up a little bit the images of the open close max minimize buttons. I would really like to incorporate the gradient dark theme Buttons into my theme. But as yet have not succeeded. Any ideas?

[kanehekili]

See my comment on your issue at my theme