Re: [ANN] Customizing GWorkspace and other apps

[Rubens_Septimus]

Fred Kiefer wrote:
> 
> Rubens_Septimus wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Rubens_Septimus wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>> Well, searching nsmappings.strings on Ubuntu only reports
>> /usr/share/pixmaps/GNUstep/nsmapping.strings, but that file don't deal
>> with
>> dir or app icons...
>> There is a /usr/lib/GNUstep/Images (apparently path with System are
>> deprecated) but no nsmapping.strings inside. So the only way seems to
>> make a
>> backup of the old icons and copying in the shared folders the new icons.
>> Did'nt find how to use mapping files.
>> 
> 
> No idea what version of GNUstep you have installed and how you installed 
> it.
>  Anyway there should be a nsmapping.strings file in the directory 
> where your images are stored. And this file should have a similar 
> structure to this:
> 
> NSSwitch = common_SwitchOff;
> NSHighlightedSwitch = common_SwitchOn;
> NSRadioButton = common_RadioOff;
> 
> 
> This is the mapping from a logical image name to a physical. This 
> mechanism was intended to provide a mapping from Next image names to 
> GNUstep image files, but it could be misused for theming as well, by 
> redefining one physical name into another. This wont allow you to just 
> change the path to the image directory (this can only be done via 
> changes to NSBundle), but enables you the redefine the used images on a 
> one by one basis.
> 
Well, my GNUstep is now a regular installation from Ubuntu Hardy.
I seems /etc/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf now replaces the source mechanism
previously used from Makefiles/GNUstep.sh.
In that conf file they say : 
"# These GNUSTEP_*_ROOT variables are obsolete, and will be removed.
GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT=/usr/System
GNUSTEP_LOCAL_ROOT=/usr/Local
GNUSTEP_NETWORK_ROOT=/usr/Network"

Well about nsmapping.strings, there is only one and it is where I said and
it complies with your description. Maybe I misunderstood it's usage : I
thought it could handle things like common icon files path like Home_Folder.
But, if I understand well your explanation, only the icons for theming the
appearance  in the UI. So you tell me about NSBundle. Where can I find more
about it ? (I'm a very newbie !)

Thanks for your attention.
Patrick


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