I believe the title gives away the question, but for clarification, how the heck do I get my custom themes onto the new platform?
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This feature does not yet exist in the 2.0 reboot within Pre-Release 1. It will be completed shortly but themes for the 1.6.x release won't work. I think themes for 2.0 B5 should work, but I'm not sure yet.
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First, close the platform (necessary to change the ini).
You need to extract the theme into the x:\PortableApps\PortableApps.com\Data\Theme folder, which is the exact same place it goes in 2.0b5. If you are starting from a .patheme file, just change the .patheme to .zip and you can unzip it.
Then, open the x:\PortableApps\PortableApps.com\Data\PortableAppsMenu.ini file and change the Theme entry to:
Theme=Custom
Your custom theme should work fine, even if it has custom menu_icons.
HOWEVER - this will cause an error when you open the Options in the menu, that says
List index out of bounds (-1)
[OK]
If you click OK, the Options window opens fine, and if you want, you can use the Themes tab to apply a built-in theme again. But so long as you have the custom theme, you'll get that error message every time.
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@JTH: I had a theme from the beta 5 on, but it switched to the basic red after a fourth load, so technically it could be said that beta 5 platform themes do work, but not permanently. As for the installing, I hope that comes up in the next PR.
@solanus: so that would explain why I still had that error even AFTER I updated the PR platform. Then I guess its back to the internal files of the platform, eh?
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I think what's happening is that when you open the Options, it reads from the ini, but the current code only expects the built-in themes, so it chokes a bit on that setting.
I'd like to experiment with customizing the new graphic elements (Menu categories icons, for example) but I don't think I can insert them into custom themes yet.
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Hi...,
I have also been faced with this problem.I solved this problem by visited on the Google.com.This website provide some settings to install it.And at the i was successful in it.You should also be visited on the Google.com and write How to install cstm. themes in 2.0 PR1.Ok
Keaton