On 01 Dec 2000 02:56:52 +1030, Alex Wallis wrote:
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> It seems I've had an avid interest in this project since before it
> began, and I obviously have more time than Mikhael or Olivier, so I'm
> willing to volunteer myself as the fvwm.themes.org Project
> Leader(whatever that means), unless anyone objects.
Good. I suggest you to start to recruit peoples to help you with this.
You don't need to do everything yourself. In fact, teoretically, a leader
only needs to handle organizational questions and manage others. :)
> At this stage I'm merely preparing some of the excellent documentation
> we have for installation etc, to make it suitable for the website.
> The graphics will be done mostly by artwiz I believe, but we can decide
> the layout. It might be nice to decide on some sort of logo or general
> icon relating to fvwm. I would suggest a tiger which should appeal to
> cat lovers everywhere! ;-)
Tiger is ok, but probably any striped cat (calico, tabi? my english is bad)
would probably be better by me.
Get ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/demos/oneko-1.1b.tar.gz
And then: xv bitmaps/tora/*right2_tora.xbm
Seems nice as a prototype. :)
> If anyone has any comments or input, or is willing to help in any way,
> please let me know asap.
I suggest you not to hurry. Just think what will be on the site?
Documentation only, or some themes too? Seems we don't have any theme
except for the 12 ones included with fvwm-themes.
There are old fvwm.t.o themes at http://kfc.themes.org/old/fvwm_themes/
They are almost all the same and not so good IMHO, but there are 2-3,
which may be reimplemented (like @cheese, just replace background, @blues,
@mars, maybe @stone).
It is preferable to ask more artistic peoples (than me or you, Alex),
say Jos, or others mentioned in the HP Links section, to create themes.
Creating "look" themes in fvwm-themes format is simple.
windowlook@ and buttons@ components are not hard if you know which fvwm
command go to each one. colors@ is easy, but may be time consuming.
Optional menustyle@ and background@ are copy-and-replace ones.
All 3 or 5 files are placed into a theme directory, say stone/, and packed
to stone.tar.gz or stone.tar.bz2. Others may apply the distributed theme:
fvwm-themes-config --install stone.tar.gz metal.tar.bz2
I may ocationally help with fvwm.themes.org, but not on a regular basis.
Regards,
Mikhael.
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