Posted by member 258027 on 2005-08-20 16:51:02 link
First, no, I am not telling you off. I appologize that the tone did sound like that. But we can exchange pleasantries on a more private level. By no means am I trying to publicly offend you or argue that you are anything BUT competent (after all, I am also pretty "noobish" here).
However, my advice to him was the correct advice. He wanted icons gone, so I told him where to look to get rid of them. I may not have answered his question directly, however I did tell him where to look for the answer.
But, lets look at his verbage -
"Is there also a way to make the desktop have no icons"
Easy, take it out of the desktop.rc file.
"or how to change the icons image?"
Not so easy. If those images are labels (or boxes), odds are he cannot simply just "remove" them by deleting a few lines. In fact, Ill be the first to say I dont know how to remove them. However, the icons used are imported from the explorer shell for all shortcuts. A simple and less mind-numbing way to do this is to go back to the default explorer shell, change the icons via context menu (properties), and select a new icon. Then, go back to litestep theme, where icons will be displayed.
If he is talking about the shell-swap icon, then I, again, have no idea - I am not experienced enough with LS yet, nor have I done it myself (yet). I simply answered his question because I felt I had the answer - and again, you seemed to be making it too complicated.
Now, I don't know if youre an admin or just a very helpful person - either way, please PLEASE don't assume that people are trying to jump down your throat simply because they give off a little bad mojo. I was giving commentary, not offense.
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Edit::
I actually took a look again - the icons are the default windows Icons for drives. Whoever made the mod simply used the windows shortcut option.
To change these, you would have to know a little about windows skinning - and how to make .ico files. Even using LS, you would probably need a .ico or mod specific format.
That, however, is beyond the scope of the LS forums, I would think.
However, my advice to him was the correct advice. He wanted icons gone, so I told him where to look to get rid of them. I may not have answered his question directly, however I did tell him where to look for the answer.
But, lets look at his verbage -
"Is there also a way to make the desktop have no icons"
Easy, take it out of the desktop.rc file.
"or how to change the icons image?"
Not so easy. If those images are labels (or boxes), odds are he cannot simply just "remove" them by deleting a few lines. In fact, Ill be the first to say I dont know how to remove them. However, the icons used are imported from the explorer shell for all shortcuts. A simple and less mind-numbing way to do this is to go back to the default explorer shell, change the icons via context menu (properties), and select a new icon. Then, go back to litestep theme, where icons will be displayed.
If he is talking about the shell-swap icon, then I, again, have no idea - I am not experienced enough with LS yet, nor have I done it myself (yet). I simply answered his question because I felt I had the answer - and again, you seemed to be making it too complicated.
Now, I don't know if youre an admin or just a very helpful person - either way, please PLEASE don't assume that people are trying to jump down your throat simply because they give off a little bad mojo. I was giving commentary, not offense.
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Edit::
I actually took a look again - the icons are the default windows Icons for drives. Whoever made the mod simply used the windows shortcut option.
To change these, you would have to know a little about windows skinning - and how to make .ico files. Even using LS, you would probably need a .ico or mod specific format.
That, however, is beyond the scope of the LS forums, I would think.