There's way to many cool png icon themes on the net for us to ignore. =)

I started by 'converting' (well, renaming) and uploading the Lila theme to OS4Depot two days ago, but it takes AGES to replace all your icons by hand. And I do mean AGES! What we need is a simple tool that helps us with the boring installation part.

I'm ready to put quite some work on preparing icon sets if someone is prepared to write a simple(?) tool that installs a new icon set automatically.

What it would do would be to scan all partitions for filenames taken from a dir with icons that the theme author has prepared.

The file structure of a theme could look like this:

SystemIcons/
Drawers/
Apps/

The SystemIcons dir holds all icons for the sys: partition.
The Drawers dir holds a couple of drawer icons that the user can chose from.
The Apps/ dir holds for example;

Ced.info
Art Effect.info
PPaint.info

The icon theme installer would just look in for example, the Apps/ dir for icons, and then search for icons with the same name on all partitions, and then replace the image. (It could show the user the icon it found, and ask if the user really want to replace it.)

Quite a simple theory, but it could work couldn't it?

Feedback please!
Anyone intrested in writing it?

you could either reply here, pm me, or mail me on spotATtriadDOTse.

I am off to look for some supa sweet icon sets now. We need more themes!

Last edited by spotUP on 15-Feb-2006 at 10:20 PM.

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this is how icons should look;

http://www.iconfactory.com/preview.asp?type=ware&kind=original&id=219

=)

www.iconfactory.com is a nice page, and there's more pages like that.

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Sounds like a great idea! I have to agree that copying icons over can be a rather laborious task.

All this needs is an Installer script to take care of the copying, but I'm not sure if a form of search is available within Installer. Anyone?

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just copying the files over wont do, as we would loose all the tooltypes. :/

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just copying the files over wont do, as we would loose all the tooltypes. :/

Gah, too true.

Ok, so the tool would need to copy all relevent tool types as well.

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@amipal

yes, or simply just overwrite the image data, but i guess it would be easier to just copy the tooltypes.
thanx for the input!

hmmm... IIRC NewIcons had an IconInstaller that did something like this hmm..

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oh ####!!!

I JUST TURNED 1 0 0 0 ! ! !

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Congrats mate!

/me shakes hand

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Does not Ken's installer do exactly what you are talking about?

@PEB

hmm.. it has an installer? that's news to me!

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hmm, it does indeed look like it does _exactly_ what i am after. this is really cool news.

off to contact ken it seems.

edit: took a closer look at the kens icon installer. it's based on a script which is a mile long. my proposed solution would make it _much_ more painless to create the icon packs... so I guess I am still on the lookout for a coder that wanna lend a hand.

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The CopyIcon program http://main.aminet.net/util/wb/CopyIcon44.lha (68k) or http://os4depot.net/share/utility/workbench/copyicon.lha (PPC) can copy the image without modifying the tooltypes/position.

All you need then is a script with a list of all the icons to replace, like:
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CopyIcon Icons/Disk SYS:Disk CopyIcon Icons/Devs SYS:Devs CopyIcon Icons/Devs/Datatypes SYS:Devs/Datatypes etc.

or better, generate a correct list on the fly with a script like:
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PushCD SYS: List ALL PAT=#?.info LFORMAT="If EXISTS %p%n*NCopyIcon Icons/%p%m SYS:%p%m*NEndIf" TO T:MyScript PopCD Execute T:MyScript Delete T:MyScript QUIET

It's assumed that wherever the script is located there's also an "Icons" drawer with all the icons in the right subdirectories like:
Icons/Disk.info, Icons/Devs.info, Icons/Devs/Monitors.info, etc.

What the script does is scan SYS: for all the .info files and creates a new script.
The new script then checks if each icon found on SYS: also exists in your Icons/ tree, and if so, it copies it from Icons/ to SYS:

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It could also be nice if the script would retain the user's old configuration and present the option of undoing the system wide change.

Hi @spotUP

You mentioned:
The icon theme installer would just look in for example, the Apps/ dir for
icons, and then search for icons with the same name on all partitions, and
then replace the image. (It could show the user the icon it found, and ask
if the user really want to replace it.)

Quite a simple theory, but it could work couldn't it?

Feedback please!
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http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=17385&forum=15#261357

I'm not sure of structures yet, but let him now!

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hmmm... useful info. I especially like your second idea, with the automatization.
you seem to know quite a bit about scripting, would you like to help me create a template theme, that could later be used to make new themes?

say I put together a set of icons in their correct drawers, with their right names, and send it to you, would you help out with the install script?

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Why stop at just icons?
How about a full theme editer tool?

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AmigaOS 4.0 already has a theme thingie built in, haven't you noticed the themes available? They don't come with icons though.

Hmm... I have contacted some icon authors in the meantime, and downloaded the nicest kde iconsets I could find. I really wanna make lots of icon-themes available with installers for AOS4. I'll do the hard work, if someone wants to help out with the tech solution. (Help!)

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.... in the meantime I am soon done with my first icon theme, no installer yet though, but I have made the drop replacing, so soonish I will have all the icons in place for the crystal_svg_clear icon theme.

bumpeti, no takers on the script/app thingie? bumpeti...

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Quote:

PushCD SYS: List ALL PAT=#?.info LFORMAT="If EXISTS %p%n*NCopyIcon Icons/%p%m SYS:%p%m*NEndIf" TO T:MyScript PopCD Execute T:MyScript Delete T:MyScript QUIET

Don't forget the FILE and DiRS options of list, ie to change all drawer icons...

list all dirs lformat="if exists %p%m.info*Ncopyicon envarc:sys/def_drawer.info %p%m.info*Nendif" to T:script

all you would have to do is replace 1 icon and run the script...

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