Ok, so I have tried a couple tutorials. The ones on ls wiki, shellfront, and another linked to shellfront from here. Now when I start these themese when they say ok you have a theme, and I switch to it, nothing works. No popup, no desk area (that I can tell) none of the taskbars or anything show up.
So what I would like if it all possible is a ots2 compliant, uber generic working theme with like jdesk and a couple other things like these tutorials so i can start adding my own stuff.
Any idea where I could get a basic theme like that?
-Wolfen
You can try my theme "RockSolid" ;)
Nothing really special and not a real tutorial theme, but simple and easy to understand (my opinion).
http://www.ls-universe.info/plugins/Theme_Gallery/show.php?9.
At our site is also an outdated (now) tutorial you might not have seen yet.
LOL, I like your name theme on there "k" hehe.
Interesting theme. This is totally along the lines of what I was thinking. Though I am surprised at how you did your modules, even though it is a fantastic method of handling them imo.
Im pretty sure i tried the ls theme tutorial at lsuniverse as well. =)
Thanks!
FYI. I did do the lsuniverse tut. And it didnt work.
==
OTSMajorVersion "2"
OTSMinorVersion "0"
ThemeName "xxxx"
ThemeAuthor "xxxxx"
*NetLoadModule lscolor-1.6.1
*NetLoadModule jdesk-0.73
*NetLoadModule dynamp-0.50
*NetLoadModule popup2-2.1.7
*NetLoadModule vtray-1.06
*NetLoadModule taskbar3-0.303
*NetLoadModule xlabel-2.9 load xlabel-2.9.dll
===
Does nothing for me. Im just wondering if there is something some where I am doing wrong, becuase every theme tut that is basic like this, or even more simple, does NOTHING heh.
Could there possibly be something Im doing wrong some where?
Are you using litestep?
Did you use Omars installer?
Are you configuring the modules (at all) ?
whats up with this: "*NetLoadModule xlabel-2.9 load xlabel-2.9.dll"
there are newer versions where you dont need to specify "load"
"Could there possibly be something Im doing wrong some where?"
There could be about a hundred things you are doing wrong :)
lol. Ok so we figured it out. Kind of. What ever folder it was in was not liked. I used the same theme there, into a new folder, worked fine. Dir was in the theme list, and correct.
As for the wierd load, that was just from the tutorial. Maybe some one should update all these old tutorials out there. ; )
"Maybe some one should update all these old tutorials out there."
Are you volunteering? ;)
Id be the last guy to be informed enough to make a tut on this stuff hehe. I just got into litestep a couple months ago.
Well, I was just kidding anyway. The thing is, modules are updated often and tutorials tend to get obsolete pretty quick. It would be a very ungratifying task updating the tutorials for every module release, so that's probably why the tutes *remain* obsolete. The best you can do is use the same module versions as the tute and then upgrade to newer versions once you're done.
Also, there's the whole not being able to update site X's content--a problem that a Wiki solves, though I seem to be the only one working on that section (and not having a lot of time for it, ATM).
Yeah the ls wiki is one of the ones that I had a problem with haha. Like I said though, it was that folder i was using for the theme. Still find that wierd.
what was the folder called?
A few different names actually dark_wolfen Dark Wolfen uhh Dark_Wolfen Dark-Wolfen. I changed themename accordingly in theme.rc as well.
So like I said, soon as I moved it over to something new, changed the themename accoridingly, worked fine.
Now its just wolfen heh.
maybe you had some permission-settings on the folder that LS couldn't handle?
Highly doubt it, but its possible. I do not remember messing with the permissions or properties of the folder its self. Interesting idea though. Its no biggy though, i can live with out the name hehe.
" i can live with out the name hehe."
So it *was* the name causing prolems?
Are you using a new name?
I r cunftussled :/
Yup, instead of dark wolfen or its varients, i put it in wolfen (was also tested under other names and worked fine). Just dark wolfen and its varients didnt work (dark_wolfen, dark-wolfen, so on)
maybe it was because of the special characters (_, -, etc)?
Naw cause I also tried with just space and no space Dark Wolfen and DarkWolfen and non caps. Once I noticed it worked perfect under 2 other folders with completely different names I went on a rampage of name changing to test heh.
Thats the only conclusion I can come to right now. Just didnt like the name. (Maybe it was a bad drive sector?)
Too many characters perhaps?
that's defninitely not it, I have a couple themes in my list named "Shades of Grey 1.x", which has more characters.