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Create Docky Themes

Asked by Naftuli Kay

How can we create Docky themes? What do they consist of and where do we dump the files? I'd love to start building themes. Thanks!

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fiction (moradin-web) said : 		#1

The dock backgrounds for the standard themes are located at /usr/share/docky/themes. The themes "Air" and "HUD" also contain the menu background files. The files are in SVG vector graphics format, for example editable by Inkscape. Alas, I don't know which specifications have to be fulfilled in order to create a new theme.

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Robert Dyer (psybers) said : 		#2

Themes are just another sub-directory in Docky's theme folder. It then looks for these files:

background.svg
menu.svg
tooltip.svg

If any exists, it uses them otherwise it uses the default for each part. Here are the requirements for each file:

background.svg - 1000 wide by 150 tall
the middle part is repeated if necessary

menu.svg - 100 wide by 120 tall
there are 3 rows, 24px/52px/44px
rows 1 and 2 are split into 3 columns: 24px/52px/24px
row 3 is split into 5 columns: 24px/11px/30px/11px/24px

tooltip.svg - 39 wide by 26 tall
split into 3, 13px wide columns, the middle part is repeated

Its a bit confusing, so please draw a square and cut it up and label each size to get a feel for it. Hope that helps! :-)

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Robert Dyer (psybers) said : 		#3

Oops, just noticed. The background pulls the left and right 50px and repeats the middle part.

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