Editing themes for superkaramba???

[stratman4300]

Looking at this theme to use on my laptop for System monitoring.

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show...?content=58036

I don't quite understand how i go about editing this theme to suit my tastes.
I'm probably just being dense :-/

Has anyone done this before

[Delphi]

Re: Editing themes for superkaramba

I have, though, I have never created my own, so I don't know all the commands. Basically superkaramba uses plain text files stuffed full of shell commands, which is then displayed graphically. Superkaramba also has some commands of its own, to insert graphics and such.

What I did, was to download a theme that I liked, open it in a text editor and tried to understand what was written there. Then I looked around to fint other themes and then copy the parts that I wanted, until I ended up with just the theme I wanted. I did all this with no programming experience at all, and just 1/2 year after switching to linux on my laptop, so you should be fine, if you start out with an open mind an are willing to do some trial and error

- Delphi

[Rog131]

Re: Editing themes for superkaramba

As Delphi said:

Basically superkaramba uses plain text files stuffed full of shell commands, which is then displayed graphically. Superkaramba also has some commands of its own, to insert graphics and such.

and 58036-crimped.skz is packed file.

about .skz filetype:
http://netdragon.sourceforge.net/rel...otes_0_37.html

You may be asking yourself, "What are .skz files?". They are self contained themes that have meta data information and are compressed.

You can unpack/open .skz with ark (you need to tell ark that this is zip-package).

58036-crimped.skz:
crimped.theme maindata.xml
and img - folder (74 picture files)


Links:

Superkaramba
http://netdragon.sourceforge.net/shelp.html

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