Themes - Skinning Zeta

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Themes - Skinning Zeta

Zeta is highly customizable when it comes to look! You can change each color of the interface through the Appearence preflet. How ever, we have added a Themes preflet with some predefined color settings. Themes doesn't only change the colors, but can also change look of radio buttons, check marks and where the Deskbar is placed on the Desktop. It doesn't stop here, as these settings don't only apply to the System, but also to some of the applications included in Zeta.

In the Themes preflet dialog, you will see a screenshot representing the theme. The screenshot shows you the window decor, menus and graphical appearence in the chosen theme.

The themes we have choosen to bundle with Zeta, are default (BeOS), zeta, gonxish, matrix, moz-modern, nucleo, redmond and zlight. When we were working on this preflet and it's themes, we were playing with the thought of removing the possibility of having multiple workspaces in the redmond theme, but we figured that would make the theme to much alike the original theme.

The more advanced user may want to theme components of the desktop themselves. To do so, press << Hide Preview. The screenshot will then be replaced with a menu containing each part the theme is built up of.

To change a chosen part of the Theme, simply press Preferences for that theme. The parts you can change are Backgrounds, BeIDE colors, Deskbar, Eddie colors, Screensaver, Soundplay colors, Sounds

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