artists ahoy
- From: TomPh <tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: emelfm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:27:19 +1000
Recently a user requested that emelfm2 be made 'themable'. In fact, the
application takes its background colours from the active gtk theme,
and its foreground colours and most UI elements from configuration
options.
One aspect that's been un-necessarily clumsy is the obligation to
change the full pathname of any custom icon that a user wishes to
alter. That's fine for single icons, or a few, but bad if you want
to change the lot at once !
For future reference, I added an advanced config option which allows
the user to specify a directory from where custom icons will be loaded.
That means you can create place(s) (say, sub-directories inside your
local configuration settings directory) and drop 'sets' of icons into
them. You can still specify, in the configuration dialog, a full path
for any icon, and in that case, such path will prevail over the
directory.
Maybe, some day, someone who thrives on perl or awk or something
will put together a simple mechanism for adjusting all relevant
settings in an e2 config file, and then we will have a real 'theme'
capability for those of us who aren't into configuration details ...
But for now -
Anyone fond of doing icon-artwork might care to grab, as a starting
point, the archive of icons at http://emelfm2.org/DownLoads.
They are in svg format. Their 'look' is slightly different from
those in recent e2 releases, with a nod in Tango's direction
(http://tango-project.org/Generic_Icon_Theme_Guidelines)
Regards
Tom
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