Re: [ANN] Customizing GWorkspace and other apps

[Fred Kiefer]

Rubens_Septimus wrote:
> Hello !
>
> I try to understand customizing with GNUstep :
>
> 1°) Icons : is a clean way to customize icons in GWorkspace ? I tried to do
> so on a draft system (virtual box) before installing GNUstep on my real
> computer. But it was dirty, because copying file icons in the system domain
> results in many disadvantages :
> 1) Other people can't chose their icons or can't revert to the classic ones
> ;
> 2) When upgrading, the customized icons will be lost.
>
> So I thought the User domain was the good way, but putting icons files in
> ~/GNUstep/Icons/ gives no result. Any idea how to achieve this ?
There is one other way to customize icons, that is by using a mapping to 
a different file name in the nsmapping.strings file. You find that file 
in the GNUstep/System/Library/Images directory.

> Are the 48x48 size and the tiff format the only ones supported ?
You may use different sizes or formats.

> 3°) How I can get windows bar to look different, for example, with pretty
> color buttons like on Mac OS X ? Is a way to do this from "defaults"
> directive ?

You will need to program that yourself, but it shouldn#T be to hard, if 
you know what you want.