OpenOffice Skins

BladeMcKain · Newbie Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 1

It's possible to modify the interface of Oo (menu and toolbar) for being similar to MS Office ??

exist a sort of skins ?

Angel Blue01 · Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 4:23 pm Post subject:

Toolbar button skin sets exist (Crystal, Industrial, Default, high contrast and Tango ) but no skinning in the Mozilla way.

You can change the items that are on menus and toolbars to get them were they are in MS Office or any other way you like.
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mjponso · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 11:24 am Post subject:

Hagar de l'Est · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 11:39 am Post subject:

mjponso · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 12:04 pm Post subject:

Is there any plans for other toolbar skins to be developed? Again, I could start working on an Office XP-based skin if there is a calling for it.

I'm not entirely sure, however, if those are the files that OOo references to build the toolbar skins. If so, it would be a simple changing of files inside the ZIP to change the skin. And if not...I don't know.

Hagar de l'Est · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 12:17 pm Post subject:

There is an enhancement request here : Issue 18829 - Support for skins. You can subscribe, vote (up to 2 votes per issue) and add a comment, especially if you want to provide something (like a modified style package), you can upload it there so that users can test it.
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mjponso · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:48 pm Post subject:

I'm starting work on the toolbar, but I have literally thousands of images to comb through to find the right ones to replace. Can anyone give me some help on finding the right images? I'm first trying to skin the toolbars used by Writer, because that's what I use the most often.

noranthon · Super User Joined: 07 Jul 2005 Posts: 3323

There is a size limitation on the icons you can use. At least, there was and probably still is. It's a strange size 26 * 26 IIRC) and it's mentioned in one of the dialogues you get to from Tools >Customise.
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mjponso · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 9:25 am Post subject:

Right now, I'm just working on the sc_ images (16x16) because that's what appears in my toolbars. I don't know if I'm permitted to include images in posts, but I have a screenshot of the work I've done on the toolbar so far. Of course it's far from complete, but this is the sort of thing I was working at.

As I said before, I can't seem to find all the corresponding sc_ images for the options in the toolbar you see above. If anyone can give me a list of the images used in the above setting, I'd definitely appreciate it. (That Styles and Formatting image is extremely elusive.)

wilkat1 · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 3:52 pm Post subject:

That's a screenshot of OOo in action? That looks nice! Lots of people here didn't like gradient toolbars and don't like the idea of OOo looking like MSO, but it looks like you're doing a great job.

mjponso · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 4:24 pm Post subject:

wilkat1 · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:48 am Post subject:

Any way you go about it, I would like to have your "skin" available when you get it finished.

mjponso · Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 6:00 pm Post subject:

(Sorry if I'm grave-digging this post. I just want to make this known.)

I have been able to dig up, from an old email archive, the work I had been able to do so far towards the Office XP skin. I am sorry to say that I cannot spare the time to continue work on the skin, but anyone may take this skin and use it as is, or continue work on it themselves and publish it like I have.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y1L242XP

atulai · Newbie Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Posts: 1

I've been looking for something like this for a while. I'm going to continue mjponso's skin in my spare time. I'll put it up here when I've got something good going.