Making Themes

The desktop's theme system is based on CSS. Making your own theme is just a matter of making the artwork, splitting the images up, and changing the CSS values around.

Start by copying a core theme. Then, replace the images in the /images/ dir with your images. Change the values in the CSS files until each image is sized and spaced correctly.

Next thing you want to do is find a set of icons that fit your theme. If the icons use the Tango Standard Icon Naming Specification, using it is just a matter of copying and pasting it into the icons dir. If not, you must modify icons.css so that each class has a corresponding icon.

Lastly, take the whole dir with the images, css, and icons, and put it in your /desktop/themes/ folder. rename it to your theme's name, and you're theme should be ready to use.