Re: [ANN] Customizing GWorkspace and other apps

[Rubens_Septimus]

Fred Kiefer wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
Thanks, Fred. I will try the nsmapping.strings. It seems cleaner than my
first attempt.
For the other suggestion, I will wait a little to learn more about
Objective-C and so on...

Patrick
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