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| DedannaRocks! wrote: | | Question: Am I replacing "my_color" with anything, or using it as-is in the script? |
you're using it as is - in the example above we've defined 2 styles - my_color and black_text
when you look at the lines starting "widget..." you'll see they all reference the my_color style except for the widegt_class *MenuItem
whether you should use the style black_text here depends on the background colour of your menus that drop down off the panel
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So, basically, what we're doing here, is allowing the menu text to remain black (which is definitely what I want to do), and making the panel font white (also what I want to do). Correct?
Sorry, didn't get to this today -- am in to a lot of stuff on the computer and can't kill the panel. Will do so probably tomorrow.
Also, need to know how to change the Mandriva star next to the "Applications" menu to a button I have.
Thank you so so much for all of your help on this!
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| DedannaRocks! wrote: | | So, basically, what we're doing here, is allowing the menu text to remain black (which is definitely what I want to do), and making the panel font white (also what I want to do). Correct? |
Exactly
| DedannaRocks! wrote: | | Also, need to know how to change the Mandriva star next to the "Applications" menu to a button I have. |
I know of a couple of ways but will suggest only one at a time:
1. make sure the image you want to use is 128x128 px
2. rename it to start-here.png (or .svg if it is)
3. look in ~/.themes & ~/.icons to see if there is already a file named start-here.png
4. copy your start-here.png into ~/.icons
5. | Code: | | killall gnome-panel |
to restart the panel
6. check if the modification has taken
Thank you so so much for all of your help on this!
Your welcome, but thank me when it works  I'd try the modifications one step at a time, so first the panel text colour, then the Start-here button.
If the panel text colour works, but the Start-here button is not changing then I have as I mentioed, other suggestions
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OK, thanks for the updates - I've seen that on gnome-look.org so I guess it's working for someone at that size
The start-here.png may also be called distributor-logo.png (.svg)
Why not try the steps outlined above, if it looks horrible, crashes the panel etc, then you just rm it from the ~/.icons directory and the system will revert back to taking it's image from /usr/share/icons or /usr/share/themes
I also found this script for changing the start button on gnome-look.org - it'll probably need some modification (I've not yet looked at the contents)
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| JP wrote: | | DedannaRocks! wrote: |
Edit: Dang, the button's 700x300 - there's no way I can get it edited correctly to 128x128. 
Going to have to think on this a while.
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Doesn't Mandriva have a "vectorizing" app available so you can make it smaller without losing the icon's characteristics?
I'm not into graphics, so I'm just wondering
The three Graphics apps that might help, that I can think of. (and I'm not sure about what each can offer) are Gimp, Inkscape, and Xara  |
It would be way out of proportion, JP. Note: 700x300 is not a square by any means.
I'm going to try it later today as-is, and see what happens.
FYI Jester, there are no icons in either one of those folders. In .icons, there's a Default folder that contains index.theme, and there's nothing in the .themes folder at all. That's all there is.
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| jester wrote: | | DedannaRocks! wrote: | | So, basically, what we're doing here, is allowing the menu text to remain black (which is definitely what I want to do), and making the panel font white (also what I want to do). Correct? |
Exactly
| DedannaRocks! wrote: | | Also, need to know how to change the Mandriva star next to the "Applications" menu to a button I have. |
I know of a couple of ways but will suggest only one at a time:
1. make sure the image you want to use is 128x128 px
2. rename it to start-here.png (or .svg if it is)
3. look in ~/.themes & ~/.icons to see if there is already a file named start-here.png
4. copy your start-here.png into ~/.icons
5. | Code: | | killall gnome-panel |
to restart the panel
6. check if the modification has taken
Thank you so so much for all of your help on this!
Your welcome, but thank me when it works I'd try the modifications one step at a time, so first the panel text colour, then the Start-here button.
If the panel text colour works, but the Start-here button is not changing then I have as I mentioed, other suggestions |
Nope didn't work on the button. I'm wondering if I need to move it to my icon theme's folder (/usr/share/whateva)?
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