[Illume/Debian] How to customize Illume?

Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) raster at rasterman.com
Wed Dec 17 00:24:04 CET 2008


On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:27:56 +0000 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms at 1407.org>
babbled:

> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 09:19:41PM +0200, Yogiz wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:28:03 +0100
> > joakim at verona.se wrote:
> > 
> > > I want to customize Illume like this:
> > > 
> > > - the AUX button will pull down the top-shelf. The top shelf will show
> > >   itself over full-screen applications such as Evince.
> > >   
> > > - The top-shelf will have a screen-lock button, similar in function to
> > >   the current behaviour of AUX.
> > > 
> > > How can this be achieved?  
> > > 
> > 
> > I think you should start messing around with the theme. 
> > 
> > Install the tools required to decompile and recompile E17 theme code:
> > opkg install libevas-saver-png edje-utils cpp cpp-symlinks
> > libembryo-tests
> > 
> > Decompile the theme, and edit the edc file:
> > cd /usr/share/enlightenment/data/themes
> 
> Better yet than the above:
>   mkdir -p ~/.enlightenment/data/themes
>   cd ~/.enlightenment/data/themes
>   cp /usr/share/enlightenment/data/themes/illume.edj .
> 
> Then proceed as written:
> > edje_decc illume.edj
> > cd illume
> > vi freerunner.edc
> > 
> > Not completely sure that's the right place but seems logical to me.
> > Correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> The only mistake, IMHO, is to change the default file needlessly when
> you can change a "local" copy which will override the system one, even if
> the system one is upgraded.
> 
> If you want to revert, it'll be also quite easy, just remove your local
> version from ~/.enlightenment/data/themes

actually ~/.e/e/themes - but yes. right idea :)


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