Theme creation

From what I understand themes to be i.e. a collection of templates to standardise a look and feel, it would be nice to find out how to construct a theme.
Nice as they are - the default themes aren't what I want - need to have a corporate look and feel across all applications developed for out intranet.
Can anyone point me in the direction of theme construction?
I have seen the pdf on how to make templates, but I would now like to pull these all together so when I create a new application, I can pick the organisations theme.
Thanks
Conrad

Scott,
thanks for your swift reply! Is there a 1.5 theme area on HTMLDB Studio?
It's difficult to provide a step-by-step example for
this, as much of creating an attractive UI relies on
talents such as HTML, CSS and graphic design -
something that can't be taught by reading a paper.I believe that many designers would benefit greatly from a step by step example of applying custom CSS, custom graphics, and a custom theme. This would be very valuable, especially to those developers with design skills. What if it were written assuming that users already have these skills? I have keen design skills, but I an hindered by the amount of documentation available to change the user interface.
HTMLDB can be a powerful tool, where you can build a powerful database application in a few minutes. However, the time it takes to research how to change the look and feel of the application feels quite the opposite.
Russ

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What is it?
It's a small bash script for easy creation of new wicd icon themes, because IMHO the original wicd icons are kinda ugly...
All it does, is the whole "give it the right name"-thing.
What is wicd?
Wicd is a nice networkmanager for wired and wireless connections
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/wicd/
http://wicd.sourceforge.net/
Instructions
* Create new folder
* Save the script right there
* Copy the files you want to use to the same directory (read on for a link with samples)
* Edit the DIR variable of the script and run it.
Changes?
* version 01
Initial upload, nothing special so far
* version 02
replaced $CP, $MKDIR, $ECHO with cp, mkdir, echo
wicd_iconset.sh
#!/bin/sh
# easy creation of wicd iconthemes
# version 02
# what it does:
# creates DIR
# copies files to DIR (WARNING: existing files in DIR will be overwritten)
# provides instructions how to use the new theme
DIR="./new/"
echo "Checking required files"
FILES=(no-signal.png signal-25.png signal-50.png signal-75.png signal-100.png wired.png wicd-client.png wired-gui.svg)
FOUND=1
for f in ${FILES[@]}
do
if [ -r $f ]; then
echo " [found] $f"
else
echo " [missing] $f"
FOUND=0
fi
done
if [ $FOUND == 1 ]; then
echo "Everything looks fine"
echo ""
read -sp "Press ENTER to continue"
echo ""
echo ""
echo "Creating directory $DIR"
mkdir -p $DIR
echo "Copying files"
echo -n " no-signal.png "
PNG_SIGNAL_NO=(both-no-signal.png idle-no-signal.png receiving-no-signal.png transmitting-no-signal.png)
for png_no in ${PNG_SIGNAL_NO[@]}
do
cp no-signal.png ${DIR}$png_no
echo -n "."
done
echo " finished"
echo -n " signal-25.png "
PNG_SIGNAL_25=(signal-25.png bad-signal-lock.png bad-signal.png both-bad-signal-lock.png both-bad-signal.png idle-bad-signal-lock.png idle-bad-signal.png receiving-bad-signal-lock.png receiving-bad-signal.png transmitting-bad-signal-lock.png transmitting-bad-signal.png)
for png_bad in ${PNG_SIGNAL_25[@]}
do
cp signal-25.png ${DIR}$png_bad
echo -n "."
done
echo " finished"
echo -n " signal-50.png "
PNG_SIGNAL_50=(signal-50.png low-signal-lock.png low-signal.png both-low-signal-lock.png both-low-signal.png idle-low-signal-lock.png idle-low-signal.png receiving-low-signal-lock.png receiving-low-signal.png transmitting-low-signal-lock.png transmitting-low-signal.png)
for png_low in ${PNG_SIGNAL_50[@]}
do
cp signal-50.png ${DIR}$png_low
echo -n "."
done
echo " finished"
echo -n " signal-75.png "
PNG_SIGNAL_75=(signal-75.png good-signal-lock.png good-signal.png both-good-signal-lock.png both-good-signal.png idle-good-signal-lock.png idle-good-signal.png receiving-good-signal-lock.png receiving-good-signal.png transmitting-good-signal-lock.png transmitting-good-signal.png)
for png_good in ${PNG_SIGNAL_75[@]}
do
cp signal-75.png ${DIR}$png_good
echo -n "."
done
echo " finished"
echo -n " signal-100.png "
PNG_SIGNAL_100=(signal-100.png high-signal-lock.png high-signal.png both-high-signal-lock.png both-high-signal.png idle-high-signal-lock.png idle-high-signal.png receiving-high-signal-lock.png receiving-high-signal.png transmitting-high-signal-lock.png transmitting-high-signal.png)
for png_high in ${PNG_SIGNAL_100[@]}
do
cp signal-100.png ${DIR}$png_high
echo -n "."
done
echo " finished"
echo -n " wired.png "
cp wired.png ${DIR}wired.png
echo ". finished"
echo -n " wicd-client.png "
cp wicd-client.png ${DIR}wicd-client.png
echo ". finished"
echo -n " wired-gui.svg "
cp wired-gui.svg ${DIR}wired-gui.svg
echo ". finished"
echo ""
echo "How to use the new theme?"
echo " * Backup the old theme"
echo " cp -r /usr/share/pixmaps/wicd /usr/share/pixmaps/wicd_old"
echo " * Change owner of the new theme"
echo " chown root:root ./new/*"
echo " * Copy theme"
echo " cp ./new/* /usr/share/pixmaps/wicd/"
echo "Enjoy."
else
echo "Aborting (please copy the missing files to the same directory)"
fi
Sample icons
http://up.nullcat.de/3a81aba5X532dX4041 … ple.tar.gz
Any advices or comments?
When it comes to bash scripting i'm a beginner, so please be gentle.
Last edited by rebugger (2009-07-03 08:23:26)

Handy.
Thanks for icons (or more precisely for the translation script), there are indeed much nicer.
One note: I had in my existing icons a no-signal.png that your script didn't create. Not a problem adding it, just thought I'd let you know.

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Greetings,
I need to apply our corporate design into a theme but noticed that this is a lengthy task.
Did anybody invent some tool to ease such job? Perhaps some xslt generating an apex theme based on some xml input?
Thanks! bob
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Hello,
Actually I think it's because of the recent upgrade the forums went through. I'm trying to track down that posting so I can change the link.
Here is another posting that has some info but you will see there is a link that points to that other posting as well Re: Question to the crowd: Why is no one making/releasing themes?
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