[Tango-artists] Theming OOo

[William Szilveszter]

Thanks Jakub. I am not afraid of hacking it. I mean, does any programmer 
make life easy for skinners and designers? How many hours are wasting 
working with 18x18 sized icons, or archaic xpm's that don't have anti 
aliasing, or my personal favourite: hardcoded icons...the list goes on. 
Honestly I think GNOME itself is rather easy to theme in respect to 
icons, massive chore, but easy enough.

I will attempt OOo and thanks for the work you have put into it. I just 
went you your site and you have quite a comprehensive collection of 
Tango OOo icons. All great work I might add.

Thanks again,

Will

Jakub Steiner wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 13:53 -0700, William Szilveszter wrote:
>   
>> Hey guys,
>>
>>     I am looking at theming OOo now, but I haven't the foggiest how to 
>> apply a theme if I did one. I have looked in 
>> "~/.ooo-2.0/user/config/imagecache" and see bmp files but after changing 
>> a few icons in the industrial set, the changes aren't reflected when I 
>> run OOo.
>>
>> Are these indeed where the icons are drawn from? This is one of the last 
>> programs I need to modify so any help would be greatly appreciated. I 
>> know Jakub is working on a tango theme for v2.0, but don't know the 
>> current state. Has anyone begun this and has a working model I can look at?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>     
>
> Hi William,
> theming OOo is possible these days, but it's not exactly trivial. The
> icon themes live in /usr/lib/openoffice/share/config
> (or /usr/lib/ooo-2.0/share/config/ depending on your distro). They are
> zipped up.
>
> I am working on a tango OOo theme which happens on the nicely named
> cws_src680_jimmactango branch. You can check out the work anonymously
> at :pserver:anoncvs at anoncvs.services.openoffice.org:/cvs
> (ui/ooo_custom_images).
>
> If you want to contribute to the trunk, I'm affraid you need to sign the
> JCA: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/JCA
>
> After changing the icons your safe bet is cleansing your ~/.ooo-2.0/ as
> the icons are cached somehow.
>
> cheers!
>
>