[Shell Patcher] Tango Icons for Windows

[The Regal Wind]

I have a question.

I have XChat2 for Windows, and I've been wondering how to make it Tangoized as well. I can change the main icon easy in Reshacker, but I'd like to know if I can customize the GTK+ theme to use Tango icons. Anyone have an idea on how to do that?

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

We need a tango theme for the PSP :rofl:

[SooperDoode]

We need a tango theme for the PSP :rofl:

Care to provide everyone with some PSPs so we can customize them? They're only 169.99 US $ each ;)

[DigitalE]

we need something like this:

Vista running WindowBlinds using Guilouche

ooooo... I'm going to have to give WindowBlinds a try!

[ViperAFK]

Care to provide everyone with some PSPs so we can customize them? They're only 169.99 US $ each ;)

Too bad I already sold mine. After GTA it got pretty boring.

[SooperDoode]

Too bad I already sold mine. After GTA it got pretty boring.

But can't it play movies and music? I thought it was also a camera. Or maybe it just stored pics. I'm more of a Sony guy though. Ratchet and Clank FTW ;)

So....anyone know anything about the new GTK+ whereabouts and a good SVN/CVS Viewer software to get the PNGs from them?

[vertigosity]

I know it's in the latest tango-icon-theme-common package from Ubuntu. TortoiseSVN is what you want to use for accessing Subversion (which Gnome uses), and TortoiseCVS is likely the proper tool to use for accessing a CVS server (like freedesktop.org, which Tango is on) - but I haven't tested TortoiseCVS.

Edited May 7, 2007 by vertigosity

[ViperAFK]

But can't it play movies and music? I thought it was also a camera. Or maybe it just stored pics. I'm more of a Sony guy though. Ratchet and Clank FTW ;)

So....anyone know anything about the new GTK+ whereabouts and a good SVN/CVS Viewer software to get the PNGs from them?

Yeah it stores music and movies, but memory sticks were expensive as hell when I had my PSP, now their cheap as dirt now.

I would also like to be able to get the png's from the SVN, for some thing in my opera theme. Havn't figured out how to get the png's.

[progrocker5]

Are there any plans to implement this in 64-bit anytime soon, or a patch/workaround to make it work? It's REALLY driving me crazy because this seems to be the only way of making my icons Tango, except IconPackager, but in order to use that in 64-bit Windows, I have to pay for it (the shareware version won't install on 64-bit Windows)!

Anyone have any suggestions?

EDIT: Just re-searched the thread with a different keywork. Damn.

Is there any way to at least get the core of the packager out there? Not the executable, but just its instructions, so that those of us in 64-bit can use this fine package? I read earlier that the original were batch processes. Could this be used in 64-bit Windows?

Edited May 8, 2007 by progrocker5

[Kraftman]

progrocker5: Everything would work on 64-bit Windows, except Resource Hacker (the actual process of tangofying the icons) doesn't support 64-bit binaries. If someone can find a commandline 64-bit resource editor, then I am sure vertigosity could enable 64-bit patching.

[stefeq]

• If someone can find a commandline 64-bit resource editor, then I am sure vertigosity could enable 64-bit patching.

  Resource Tuner Console is capable of editing 64-bit resources and is "just" 199$ :D
  
• By the way,
  Great Opera theme ViperAFK! Thanks
  

[vertigosity]

I just had my system/music HD die, so I'm working on trying recover/restore what of that I can, so I'm not even going to pretend to look at it... but if there's enough interest in something 64-bit, and their license allows it, maybe I could set up a bounty on it, or something (get a group of y'all together, split the cost, toss it to my paypal account). It's all absurdly hypothetical, though, and there's a snowball's chance in hell that they're going to let someone (me?) just give away free copies (especially at "only" $200), plus I don't have any means of testing 64-bit stuff. And I'm not setting up a "buy me a Core2/AM2" bounty, that would be stupid and abusive... although people have gotten donations of more cash for less return, I have no desire to become a total effing freeloader (plus, I'm not that reliable on the "return" bit these days, either).

[stefeq]

• I just had my system/music HD die, so I'm working on trying recover/restore what of that I can,

  Ouch.. doesn't sound nice. How old was the HD?

  
  

• but if there's enough interest in something 64-bit

  Didn't notice much interest but who knows. One way or another I'm 32-bit and happy

  
  

• As for the resource editing app that's a quote from their site:
  
  We offer a free trial version, so you can try the software, risk free. It is limited to processing only
  two files at a time
  .
  Resource Tuner Console

  
  

[progrocker5]

I actually second the lack of interest thing, but is there any way to do what this patcher does without using the resource hacker? Can it be done with scripts or something simmilar? Or are we stuck with 32-bit ResHacker?

[SHADOW-XIII]

Care to provide everyone with some PSPs so we can customize them? They're only 169.99 US $ each ;)

I have PSP and can test icons. The main problem for me is that the icons HAVE to be 32bit bitmap images (BMP) only (that will make alpha channel & and transparency support) but I have limited access to PC and there are not many tools with that image type support.

Here is the file with original PSP icons: http://www.sendspace.com/file/ymoik3 (PSP Icon exists in 3 types: icon, shadow, glow effect),

and here is the program to extract & import icons in that file above: http://dl.qj.net/dl.php?fid=13601

Hope this helps a little

[Smok]

Hey, could anyone provide a 256x256 (eventually 128x128) png version of ie, firefox, gaim (blue bubble with white emoticon) and an eqvivalent of microsoft word and excel icons? Much appreciated. Thank you!

[stefeq]

Hey, could anyone provide a 256x256 (eventually 128x128) png version of ie, firefox, gaim (blue bubble with white emoticon) and an eqvivalent of microsoft word and excel icons? Much appreciated. Thank you!

There's not much need for that so I wouldn't get my hopes high if I were you. Unless you'd reveal the purpose for all this work

[vertigosity]

I actually second the lack of interest thing, but is there any way to do what this patcher does without using the resource hacker? Can it be done with scripts or something simmilar? Or are we stuck with 32-bit ResHacker?

I haven't seen anything appropriate, with the exception of resource tuner; I would like to eventually move away from reshacker though, as it's not legit for redistribution either (abandonware, but still tagged as do-not-distribute-without-permission). It wouldn't be a simple thing to implement in a scripting language, there's some dissassembly and reassembly involved, and that's not something that easy to do.

[Kraftman]

Stefeq: vertigosity already has Firefox and Internet Explorer icons. Check out the packs on his site (tango.benpbrown.com).

[Sam]

vertigosity: Would it be possible to get all the icons used in the patcher as .ico or png?

Cheers.

[stefeq]

vertigosity: Would it be possible to get all the icons used in the patcher as .ico or png?

Cheers.

http://tango.benpbrown.com/?page=dev&dev=source

[progrocker5]

Is there any way to find out precisely which Icons go where? Basically asing what icons the program changes and which it substitutes. I'm just going to do it all manually, then save it as an older theme (IconPackager 2.5, which actually works).

P.S. "XN Resource Editor" works with x64 DLLs. That's what I'm using to do my editing; I just did some research and it all confirms that it works in 64-bit.

Edited May 9, 2007 by progrocker5

[stefeq]

"XN Resource Editor" works with x64 DLLs. That's what I'm using to do my editing; I just did some research and it all confirms that it works in 64-bit.

does it work via console?

[Smok]

There's not much need for that so I wouldn't get my hopes high if I were you. Unless you'd reveal the purpose for all this work

My only purpose is to get nice dock icons, that don't pixelate when I zoom on them ;) The IE, Firefox and Gaim icons exist, hovewer I don't know where I can find their bigger versions, suitable for the dock. In this topic someone made new icons upon wishes from other users, so I thought that I could make a wish of my own (excel, word). If that is too much to ask, then I'm sorry (I don't intend to be rude in this sentence, it's only my poor english).

[progrocker5]

does it work via console?

Apparently, though, I was wrong, and it doesn't work.

Replacing by default shell32.dll file with one edited by XN not only did the same thing as running this program to replace it does, but get this, it made it WORSE [while after running this utility in 64-bit I was able to access the run dialog, after replacing my shell32.dll file I couldn't even do that!].

Apparently I'm doomed to the craptacular default Windows icons forever :(