SerenityOS / theming

Theming for SerenityOS

SerenityOS Theming Repo

Folder Structure

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├── color-palettes
├── cursor-themes
├── emoji
├── fonts
├── graphics
├── icon-themes
├── icons
│   └── themes
├── terminal-colors
├── themes
└── wallpapers

Repo structure is similar to SerenityOS's Base/res repo or /res inside a running instance. Folders contain system-wide resources, except icons/themes which is theme-specific

How to use

First, ensure that you have a successfull working SerenityOS instance. As of this writing, the recommended process of trying out the contents of the repo is to manually copy over to your SerenityOS branch. On GNU/Linux home directory, assume that you have both repos

• $HOME/serenity
• $HOME/theming

In this scenario, assume also that you want to try all contents of theming repo:

$ cd $HOME
$ cp -r $HOME/theming/* $HOME/serenity/Base/res/

Then you'll only do the following in order to build SerenityOS:

$ cd $HOME/serenity
$ Meta/serenity.sh run

Inside the running SerenityOS instance, you should have additional fonts, cursor-themes, icon-themes and themes for use.

Safest method: Use Ports/serenity-theming application

$ cd $HOME/serenity/Ports/serenity-theming
$ ./package.sh

This will download contents of https://github.com/serenityos/theming repo (of a certain commit) and install it on your build. Majority of the resources will be available and ready to use inside SerenityOS except icon-themes, since we still need manual process of installing them before doing Meta/serenity.sh run.

How to use Icon Theme

Although theming repo is now a part of your SerenityOS build directory, using Icon Theme requires additional steps. Currently, there are a couple of Icon themes to try, Black-and-White, Chillychilly and Durrque. For safety purposes, create a Default Icon theme.

$ cd $HOME/serenity
# create a backup of Default Icon themes, run this command only once
~:serenity $ cp -r Base/res/icons Base/res/icon-themes/Default
# try out Black-and-White Icon theme, the next command will overwrite default icons
~:serenity $ cp -r Base/res/icon-themes/Black-and-White/* Base/res/icons/
# Build and run
~:serenity $ Meta/serenity.sh run
# Revert back to Default Icons
~:serenity $ cp -r Base/res/icon-themes/Default/* Base/res/icons/
or
~:serenity $ git restore Base/res/icons/
# Build and run
~:serenity $ Meta/serenity.sh run

We look forward to have these steps wrapped around a nice GUI interface soon-ish. Meanwhile, enjoy :^)