OpenOffice.org gtk2 Theme
This page will describe how you can use some of Gnome's gtk2 icons with OpenOffice.org 1.1 instead of the default Icons. Currently, OpenOffice.org has a few limitations in its themeing capabilities, which should be addressed in it's next release. These include:
- Only uses bitmaps and not png files.
- Masking of complex icons looks ugly, this theme looks ugly when masked.
- (Because masking is sometimes ugly) This theme doesn't "grey out" disabled icons.
- Themes can only use 1 size of icons, so menu icons are huge.
Here is a screenshot of what this theme looks like under Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Workstation.
Basic Instructions
To get this theme to work, make sure you have a directory called soffice.cfg located at ~OOOpath/user/config/soffice.cfg - If you do not have the directory, just create it at that location. Then just download this zip file and extract it into the soffice.cfg directory. By default it will use icons with a grey background, which works when using the standard windows apperance theme with Microsoft Windows. I have included a few other background colors with the file, just rename the file in genBitmaps you want to use to to "userimages.bmp".
Note: make sure you disable the "quickstarter" feature to allow OpenOffice.org to use the new icons.
Advanced Instructions
If you want to edit this theme, create a new theme, or change the background color of this theme, download this file. It contains all of the icons, instructions and a nearly complete slot list to allow you to create your own OpenOffice.org theme.
Notes
This theme is missing a few icons which I cannot find, the "Open form in design mode" icon and all of the new document icons. Once I find these I will update this theme. Also, there is the possibility of using icons for other menu items, I didn't include them in this theme because neither the standard OpenOffice.org version nor the Ximian/Debian OpenOffice.org version had any.
If you do not like the huge icons in the menus, you can disable them by unchecking "Show icons in menus" under the OpenOffice.org View options.
Special Thanks
- OpenOffice.org Team for working on an awesome Office Suite
- Ximian/Novell for the time spent fine tuning OpenOffice.org.
- Jakub 'jimmac' Steiner for creating all of the icons used in this theme. Great Work!
- Rohit Kaul for creating the scripts I used, and for pointing me in the right directions.
