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diff --git a/doc/themes.howto.txt b/doc/themes.howto.txt index 0d0c5cc05..12054fe21 100644 --- a/doc/themes.howto.txt +++ b/doc/themes.howto.txt @@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ A KVIrc theme is basically: The skeleton for a new theme can be produced by simply saving your current theme. Open the options dialog and go to the Look & Feel / Theme page. Click on "Save current theme", enter the description in the dialog that -appears and select "Ok". The theme skeleton is now saved in your home +appears and select "OK". The theme skeleton is now saved in your home directory.The confirmation dialog should have told you exactly where: it should be a directory like -$HOME/.kvirc/<kvircversion>/theme/<yourthemename>-<yourthemeversion>. +$HOME/.config/KVIrc/theme/<yourthemename>-<yourthemeversion>. Cd to that directory and look around. You should see two configuration *.kvc files and a lot of *.png images. @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ themedata.kvc contains the visual settings. It looks more or less like this: pixmapLabelBackground= msgtypeMotd=30,1,100,1,1 fontIrcView=helvetica,10,5,50 - colorIrcToolBarAppletForegroundLowContrast=180,180,180 + colorIrcToolBarAppletBorder=180,180,180 boolUseGuiEffectFadeMenu=false pixmapGlobalTransparencyBackground=pixmapGlobalTransparencyBackground.png pixmapTreeTaskBarBackground= @@ -39,18 +39,25 @@ themedata.kvc contains the visual settings. It looks more or less like this: You can *carefully* edit it by hand, if you wish. Each option starts with a prefix that defines the "type" of that option. -pixmap defines an image and thus should contain an image path (see below) -color defines an user interface color and is an R,G,B triplet -font defines an user interface font: you usually need to change only the - first two values: font family and size -msgtype defines the icon, text color, background color, log level and - alert level of the messages -uint is an unsigned integer value -bool is a boolean value: true or false -mirccolor defines the colors used by the CTRL+K escape and is an - R,G,B triplet like color. -iccolor defines the default color of an irc context and is again an - R,G,B triplet. +pixmap: defines an image and thus should contain an image path (see below) + +color: defines an user interface color and is an R,G,B triplet + +font: defines an user interface font: you usually need to change only the + first two values: font family and size. + +msgtype: defines the icon, text color, background color, log level and + alert level of the messages + +uint: is an unsigned integer value + +bool: is a boolean value: true or false + +mirccolor: defines the colors used by the CTRL+K escape and is an + R,G,B triplet like color. + +iccolor: defines the default color of an IRC context and is again an + R,G,B triplet. Hints: - When changing the pixmap entries remember to use filenames @@ -92,13 +99,16 @@ Hints: %i++ } while(%name != "") +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Review this block, is this applicable in 4.x/5.x? + - The id's of the icons are just their ZERO_BASED indexes. The kvi_smallicon_<number>.png files are numbered in increasing order and contain 16 images each one. kvi_smallicon_00.png contains images from 0 to 15, kvi_smallicon_01.png contains images 16 to 31 etc... Thus the third icon in kvi_smallicon_02.png has id (2*16)+(3)-1 = 34. - +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |