bvc Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 I've been asked this a few times so I thought a pinned thread would be nice. Please add to this any tips or links you find useful. To start... general (know the environment) http://www.gnomefiles.org/ http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=114 SmoothEngine http://gnome.org/~thos/Smooth-Docs/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/smooth-engine/ http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=114 Metacity http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/m...ity-themes.html ICONS http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=385 http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.p...hlight=standard http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.p...hlight=standard Help other than here http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=20 Tinkering and hacking others themes is necessary to really get it. Docs are very limited. So get stuff and hack! That's what I did. http://gnome-look.org/ http://art.gnome.org/ GNOME ROCKS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 you need images for pixmap themes? http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=1 the .wba extension is seen as a zip type by file-roller ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 (edited) Errors Whether gtk, metacity, or icon theming, errors may or may not be printed in vt1 (Ctrl+Alt+F1) depending on the distro you use. Mandrake used to, but doesn't seem to anymore. Debian's and Fedora do. You can easily get the errors by running gnome-theme-manager in an X terminal (Gnome Terminal, Aterm, Eterm, Xterm, rxvt etc....). Metacity Metacity has a nice tool. The metacity-theme-viewer Run it from an X terminal; metacity-theme-viewer name_of_metacity_theme [example]metacity-theme-viewer d3a and you can find out how fast it loads and errors pointing to any problems with loading the theme. It opens a gui to show you all the different aspects of the theme. Edited October 19, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 (edited) http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/ http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gtk+/docs/wid...try.txt?rev=1.5 ################## Scalable Vector Graphics This is what I'm currently interested in and researching. Instead of pixmap, you can make svg/gtk and metacity themes, and of course icon themes. http://librsvg.sourceforge.net/ http://www.inkscape.org/ (has a built in tutorial) http://www.sodipodi.com/ http://programmer-art.org/?page=inkscape Inkscape rpms http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idp...k.i586.rpm.html http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idp...k.i586.rpm.html http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idp...c.i586.rpm.html http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idp...k.i586.rpm.html Edited February 11, 2005 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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