History of IconStyles
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{r2} Bitweaver's Icon Styles are compatible with Gnome and KDE icon themes. Icon Styles can be viewed and chosen on the Admin > Themes > Themes Manager page. Icons Styles are presented for you to select from: About Icon StylesIcon Styles added by the admin appear on the Themes Manager page. See icon research as a starting point for a new Icon Style. It's quite easy to add new Icon Styles thanks to the fact that Bitweaver sticks to the official Icon Naming Specification. Since the Tango Desktop Project is tightly associated with the icon naming specification we chose their theme Tango as bitweaver's default. The available Icon Styles reside in the themes directory:IconStyles Directory
Overriding or adding specific iconsTo use icons that are not part of an Icon Style, or to override icons that are, use the icons directory in your custom style. E.g., to override the "busy" icon in liberty/icons/ place the new "busy" icon in themes/styles/<yourstyle>/icons/liberty/ (must have either gif, png or jpg extension).Getting new icon themesIcon themes that don't adhere to the naming convention will probably not work with Bitweaver. Themes that do adhere to the naming specifications can be found on sites like:Making the icon theme compatible with BitweaverThere are 3 types of icon themes:
1. Full icon set themesThese icon themes are the easiest to convert.Typical icon theme directory structure
We now need to move all the icons of a given size to directories called small and large. Bitweaver uses 16x16 px for small and 32x32 px for large icons. Finally we copy the files into an appropriately named directory in bitweaver icon_themes. In the example below we will create a style called foo. Execute this to move all icons to the appropriate directories
2. SVG icon set themesThese kinds of icon themes contain SVG icon files and also PNG files for small versions of the icons. On Linux you will need rsvg in your path to execute the following script (librsvg is required).Addding style informationThe style_info directory works exactly the same as it does in the theme styles directories.Overriding a couple of iconsThe Tango icon theme is BitweaveR's default Icon Style. Any icon not found in the currently selected Icon Style will be searched for in the Tango theme. If you want to override a couple of icons, you can simply create your custom Icon Style in /themes/icon_styles/ and then place your icons in the small and large subdirectories using the same names as in the Tango theme. Finally select your icon style in the Themes Manager page. To change the default Icon Style (Tango), edit kernel/setup_inc.php:kernel/setup_inc.php
Converting icons to GIFIf you want to avoid using Javascript to make PNG icons work in Microsoft's Internet Explorer, you can use GIF icons instead. On Linux with ImageMagic, you can use this little script to convert all the PNG images to GIFs. (The above script will also create GIF copies of all PNG icons, but if you want to do it manually, here is a code snippet that might help you.)PNG to GIF conversion script
</yourstyle> | Bitweaver's Icon Styles are compatible with Gnome and KDE icon themes. Icon Styles can be viewed and chosen on the Admin > Themes > Themes Manager page. Icons Styles are presented for you to select from: About Icon StylesIcon Styles added by the admin appear on the Themes Manager page. See icon research as a starting point for a new Icon Style. It's quite easy to add new Icon Styles thanks to the fact that Bitweaver sticks to the official Icon Naming Specification. Since the Tango Desktop Project is tightly associated with the icon naming specification we chose their theme Tango as bitweaver's default. The available Icon Styles reside in the themes directory:IconStyles Directory
Overriding or adding specific iconsTo use icons that are not part of an Icon Style, or to override icons that are, use the icons directory in your custom style. E.g., to override the "busy" icon in liberty/icons/ place the new "busy" icon in themes/styles/yourstyle/icons/liberty/ (must have either gif, png or jpg extension).Getting new icon themesIcon themes that don't adhere to the naming convention will probably not work with Bitweaver. Themes that do adhere to the naming specifications can be found on sites like:Making the icon theme compatible with BitweaverThere are 3 types of icon themes:
1. Full icon set themesThese icon themes are the easiest to convert.Typical icon theme directory structure
We now need to move all the icons of a given size to directories called small and large. Bitweaver uses 16x16 px for small and 32x32 px for large icons. Finally we copy the files into an appropriately named directory in bitweaver icon_themes. In the example below we will create a style called foo. Execute this to move all icons to the appropriate directories
2. SVG icon set themesThese kinds of icon themes contain SVG icon files and also PNG files for small versions of the icons. On Linux you will need rsvg in your path to execute the following script (librsvg is required).Addding style informationThe style_info directory works exactly the same as it does in the theme styles directories.Overriding a couple of iconsThe Tango icon theme is BitweaveR's default Icon Style. Any icon not found in the currently selected Icon Style will be searched for in the Tango theme. If you want to override a couple of icons, you can simply create your custom Icon Style in /themes/icon_styles/ and then place your icons in the small and large subdirectories using the same names as in the Tango theme. Finally select your icon style in the Themes Manager page. To change the default Icon Style (Tango), edit kernel/setup_inc.php:kernel/setup_inc.php
Converting icons to GIFIf you want to avoid using Javascript to make PNG icons work in Microsoft's Internet Explorer, you can use GIF icons instead. On Linux with ImageMagic, you can use this little script to convert all the PNG images to GIFs. (The above script will also create GIF copies of all PNG icons, but if you want to do it manually, here is a code snippet that might help you.)PNG to GIF conversion script
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