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PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2024 3:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2024 2:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2024 3:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

YEEEEEEESSS!!

I just did it, and it works!! Very Happy Smile Laughing Cool

Thank you SO SO MUCH!!

(Yes, it's the little things like this in life that are a turn-on!)

I can see!! Yes!! I can seeeee!!



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2024 3:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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

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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 Wink 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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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2024 3:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

oh wow - I was too slow posting back Smile

well it is my Sunday morning and I needed more coffee half-way through...

Great - so now try the Start-button trick



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2024 4:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, sorry about that. I got a wild hair right after my last post, and just up 'n did it lol.

Now, I have to find that button. Give me a bit, and I'll post back.

Thank you! Smile



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2024 4:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I knew I should've posted that doggone thing at photobucket. lol.

Edit: Dang, the button's 700x300 - there's no way I can get it edited correctly to 128x128. Sad

Going to have to think on this a while.

I've posted it. The original is here. I've edited it to this, because of the way my sight is.

It's courtesy gnome-look.org.

There is no start-here.* in either folder, btw.



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2024 4:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2024 5:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

DedannaRocks! wrote:

Edit: Dang, the button's 700x300 - there's no way I can get it edited correctly to 128x128. Sad

Going to have to think on this a while.



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 Wink

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 Cool



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2024 4:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

JP wrote:
DedannaRocks! wrote:

Edit: Dang, the button's 700x300 - there's no way I can get it edited correctly to 128x128. Sad

Going to have to think on this a while.



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 Wink

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 Cool

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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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2024 6:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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 Wink 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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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2024 8:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes it did!

What I had to do was switch from the Menu Bar to Main Menu, then change to it in gconfig editor.

Didn't even have to run killall gnome-panel. Very Happy

Soon as I switched to it in the editor, there it was! Smile

Thank you so much again!



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 2024 11:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

DedannaRocks! wrote:
Yes it did!

What I had to do was switch from the Menu Bar to Main Menu, then change to it in gconfig editor.

Didn't even have to run killall gnome-panel. Very Happy

Soon as I switched to it in the editor, there it was! Smile

Thank you so much again!

Great news - I was holding off on gconf-editor since it was a more involved approach but you figured it out for yourself so I think the thanks are not so much for me Smile

Nice when you figure something out for yourself isn't it?


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PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 2024 1:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

jester wrote:
DedannaRocks! wrote:
Yes it did!

What I had to do was switch from the Menu Bar to Main Menu, then change to it in gconfig editor.

Didn't even have to run killall gnome-panel. Very Happy

Soon as I switched to it in the editor, there it was! Smile

Thank you so much again!

Great news - I was holding off on gconf-editor since it was a more involved approach but you figured it out for yourself so I think the thanks are not so much for me Smile

Nice when you figure something out for yourself isn't it?

It sure is. However, I wasn't on my own completely. It was someone over yonder that told me the menu bar wouldn't work, and I'm gconfig-editor literate (use it quite extensively), so I just put two and two together, and did it. Smile

Thank you!



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