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[MU]

Abiword is based on "Gtk2", the filemanager "Rox" on Gtk1.

Gtk is a toolkit to draw the window-elements like buttons and such.

If you want to change the "look", you need themes, and a theme-chooser.
Puppy already has one in the Configuration, called JWM-Theme.

This one here is an enhanced version.
I programmed it from scratch, as some external, older ones did not work as customized as I wanted.

Screenshots:

http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Desktop-Tools/Gtk-Themechooser/


Features:
Supports Gtk1 and 2 in one window.
Supports "external" themes and Puppys themes.
Font-selection.
"repair" of external themes, that often rely on additional icon-files, that are not in Puppy by default. These missing icons can cause error-messages, that disturb Xdialog (Pupget).
Changes take effect immedeatly when you click on "apply".

There already is an older dotpup with many themes:
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=2137
There also is a description, where to get more.

The new themeselector itself has no themes.
Download (OLD versions, do only use these in very old versions of Puppy!):
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Desktop-Tools/Gtk-Themechooser/getdir.pup
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Desktop-Tools/Gtk-Themechooser/Gtklist04MU.pup (NOT in Puppy 4 !!!)
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Desktop-Tools/Gtk-Themechooser/MU-Gtk-Themechooser.pup

UPDATE:
Newer version 07, for Puppy 3 or 4:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=218890#218890

Install these dotpups, they include the themechooser and the required libraries.
Then run it from the menu.
Mark

[MU]

I uploaded a bugfixed version.
If you have the old one already, you will see no difference, but I recommend to upgrade to avoid conflicts, when you use other programs based on Gtklist04MU.

I'm already working on the next tool.
Mark

[MU]

Setting the font did not work, if you upgraded Xdialog to a version based on Gtk2.
Corrected this now.
Mark

[brad_chuck]

Thanks mark, this is great. I like the QNX theme... It matches open office 2.04 nicely.

I use OO about 2 hrs a day and like the theme. Now all my apps have that theme also.

I like showing my classmates and professors Puppy. I like having a nice look, it is what people see when they look at Puppy for a short time.

Got one professor and 3 classmates using open office on windose and of course they all have puppy CD's I burned...

Small steps..

[Nathan F]

I finally got around to testing this, and so far it seems to be quite nice. I was planning on throwing out the old theme selector anyway, and this is looking like a pretty nice contender.

One thing that would be nice is a a preview button, that maybe pops up a secondary gtk window to test out the new theme before applying. The little 'switch2' program that I currently use does this.

Nathan

[sunburnt]

This is just what I was wondering about, how to make the Puppy dialogs look nicer!

[MU]

I cannot find the thread where I posted newer versions.
So I add it here.

Version 06 is released (update. now 07).

Works in Puppy3/4. I did not test older ones.

I rewrote some parts internally, so it shows you, what theme is currently active.
It has a new button, to set an Icontheme.

These must be located in /usr/share/icons/.
Setting this, will affect ALL Gtk2 based application, not only Rox-Filer.

To use it instead of Rox-Filers internal Icontheme-switcher, you should set this in Rox-Filer:
Right-click an Icon, Options, Types, Iconset: choose here Muppy.
Simply run my Themeswitcher, it then will remind you to set that in Rox.

Special feature:
HotPup now is themable.
To enable this:

/usr/local/MU-Gtk-Themechooser/HotPup-Setup/readme.txt

[MU]

updated from 06 to 07.
Fixed bug: the current font and theme were not displayed correctly in the info-box, it was not updated on a change.

Mark

[ttuuxxx]

Hey Mark
I've been using your gtk-themeselector since your first release, And I consider it a must have, Excellent program !!!
ttuuxxx