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Making Themes
Contents
Introduction
In Short
Tools
Button States
General Styles
Main Controls
Secondary Controls
Playlist Controls
Toolbar
Icon List
Releasing
Credits
Licenses

Chapter 2. In Short

This is a slightly abbreviated guide. Read the whole thing for more, but start here anyway, so you know what making an icon set will entail.

1. Get Tools
I recommend SodiPodi for vector drawing and The GIMP for some possible touch ups. Both are free. I recommend using ImageMagick once later.

2. The Icons
Make icons for everything. I list of every icon needed is in the section icon list.

3. Final Bits
Run the sample.sh script in the icon theme's directory to create a sample of the icons. The script requires ImageMagick. Then add a 'credits.txt' page which says who made it (your name and email) and any copyright information (date and how much people can copy it).

4. Testing
Open eMotion with your icon set. You can change the icons by putting your icons in '/usr/local/share/emotion/icons'. If you back-up the icons there, leave 'blank.png' and 'logo.png'. Then, compare your list of icons to the proper list by running 'ls | diff - ../listing.txt' from the icon theme directory while listing.txt is in the directory one level higher.

5. Packaging
Put the directory into a tarball, possibly by running 'tar -cvvf "themename.tar" "themedirectory"' from one directory higher.

6. Releasing
Email me a copy at jamethknorth@hotmail.com so I can post it on the eMotion website.

7. R&R
Because, on the seventh step he rested.


 
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