Re: [ANN] Customizing GWorkspace and other apps

Fred Kiefer wrote:
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> Rubens_Septimus wrote:
>> Hello !
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>> I try to understand customizing with GNUstep :
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>> 1=C2=B0) Icons : is a clean way to customize icons in GWorkspace ? I tri=
ed 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.
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>> So I thought the User domain was the good way, but putting icons files i=
n
>> ~/GNUstep/Icons/ gives no result. Any idea how to achieve this ?
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> There is one other way to customize icons, that is by using a mapping to=
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> a different file name in the nsmapping.strings file. You find that file=
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> in the GNUstep/System/Library/Images directory.
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>> Are the 48x48 size and the tiff format the only ones supported ?
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> You may use different sizes or formats.
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>> 3=C2=B0) 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 ?
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> You will need to program that yourself, but it shouldn#T be to hard, if=
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> you know what you want.
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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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