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detroitinpa

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Wednesday, May 5th 2004, 8:11pm

Creating Themes

I'm a Newbe to Linux (Mandrake), I would like to create my own Icon theme, I was wondering how to go about doing that, if you can use a program or you just create a folder and place the icons you want in the folder, and if you dont have a icon for some program how does it know where to get a icon from

As you can see i have a lot of ?, and really dont know where to began, if someone can point me into the right direction, that would be cool

zero

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Sunday, May 23rd 2004, 8:47pm

in my distro, the icons are installed in my home dir with name, .icons. if you wanna know how it works, i suggest you look at that dir. if it's not there try to DL an icon theme and install as regular user. for now i can't remember where to look for the default dir where the icons are contained in /usr. i thinks it's /usr/share/pixmaps or /usr/share/icons/. just search for it. i'm too lazy to look for it now, and a bit mad for losing my theme/styles.

if an icon for an app is not found in your current theme, the WM is smart enought to look for an icon associated for such an app. it looks for it at the default dirs.

BTW, you could use GIMP or some other very good image tool if you really wanna make your own icon theme. you only need PNGs for these icons. it's an open format, not like the .ico files on some other system, which you can't readily modify without a required tool other than an image tool.

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Sunday, July 4th 2004, 11:08pm

one method i tried war by giving the same name to icons as in other themes...

like the icon replace mozilla icon be given the same name as in privious theme...

and just copy the newly created theme to theme folder.
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Sunday, July 4th 2004, 11:11pm

but DOES any oe know

how to build theme after creating icons..

like iconpackager can be used to build *.IP theme files
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