Re: icon art etc

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Benjamin Meyer wrote:
> 
> ok, I have already created a theme and I have it up and running.  Doesn't
> look to bad if I do say myself.  Upon further designing of the "theme" I
> relized that the grid icon approch isn't the best one, but a
> pure vertical is a much better design.  The human eye can read vertically
> much faster then it can horizontally and much much faster then a grid.  If
> possible having the smaller vertical listing always on the left.  The only
> way I was able to find to do this is to use frames.  I can include stuff in
> the top of the body and the bottom, but I can't include a cgi page (or can
> I?)  If possible I would like to not have to use frames, can the feature be
> added in the theme for bodycgiinclude for body top and bottom?  This would
> all for much earlier web apps to view my "theme" and cleaner html.

To do stuff like that, you need to override the index.cgi program in your
theme. Have a look at the included caldera theme for an example.. it has
it's own index.cgi which outputs a top-bottom frameset.

> Where are the header and footer functions located?  Will it be easy to
> overload them in my theme?

You can't do that. However, there are somethings you can put in the
theme's config file to include extra stuff in the header and footer.
 
> Because in my "theme" I have a listing on the left I do not use the icons off
> the top, but I would like to have them placed to the left of the module name
> and also I wish to dump the module help data at the bottom of the module (in
> the footer)

You could do that with your index.cgi
 
> I presume that all of the icons currently have a bsd licence with them?

Yeah, all the code and graphics in the main webmin distribution are BSD
licenced. Yours can be whatever you want though ..

 - Jamie
 
> -Benjamin Meyer
> 
> On Sunday 17 June 2001 18:58, you wrote:
> > Benjamin Meyer wrote:
> > > Hi there, I finally downloaded and installed webmin after looking at it
> > > for about a year.  I currently do not know perl (but recently bought a
> > > book) but no fret for I would like to help in a different area anyway.  I
> > > noticed that a number of the icons need some work.  Other then being
> > > 48x48 is are there other rules?  Is there someone I can work with (i.e.
> > > is there someone already asigned to this job) to create a set of rich
> > > high quality icons (and rules) for all of the default install?  Webmin is
> > > a very feature rich application and filled with many good modules, but it
> > > needs a little polish and I would like to help out in that regard.
> >
> > The 48 x 48 size is the only real rule for icons..
> > If you want to create your own set, the best way to do it at first is by
> > creating your own theme, which allows you to override the default icons.
> > Have a look at http://www.webmin.com/webmin/modules.html#theme for the
> > technical details.
> >
> >  - Jamie