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Readme for Chicago95 LibreOffice icon theme

LibreOffice MS Icon Theme

This is a highly experimental icon set for LibreOffice to use that will provide a vintage Microsoft Word 95 look and feel. It is only very loosely related to the official Chicago95 project which is a more comprehensive project for the entire desktop experience.

Note: This is not a 100% complete icon theme. It will mostly affect toolbar icons which are most often seen.

Upstream

https://gitlab.com/bgstack15/libreoffice-chicago95-iconset.git is the original location of this package.

Author

bgstack15 on irc.freenode.net or gmail.

Alternatives

Any other icon theme for LibreOffice 6 or higher. Try Colibre, the built-in one. Or Tango, the original default iconset. Or the nifty Office2013 one. No works have been found for a theme of this exact nature.

Dependencies

  • 7za (p7zip)
  • coreutils

Building this project

The goal is to provide a .oxt file suitable for being a LibreOffice extension. 7za doesn't make the right kind of zip file, so maybe zip will. But you can also just plop the images_chicago95.zip file to /usr/lib64/libreoffice/share/config/ directly.

To assemble the images_chicago95.zip file and also the .oxt file, manually inspect and run build.sh.

./build.sh

To place the iconset in the public location for a 64-bit Linux distro:

sudo cp -p Chicago95-theme/iconsets/images_chicago95.zip /usr/lib64/libreoffice/share/config/

Workflow for adding to project

  • Screenscrapes of original assets when available, which are scarce. Office suites in the 90s just didn't do as much as they do now.
  • Hand-creating new images when necessary, using the original color palette available as file iconsets/c95/sources/palette.png in this repo.

Sources

MS Office 95 Pro, original disc. Original artwork.

Improve

Only a rudimentary LibreOffice Writer initial screen has full icon support: the two main toolbars, and the "draw" toolbar.

Contributions are welcome!

Possible future goals include:

  • Initial screen of LibreOffice Calc looks like an Excel 95 experience
  • Initial screen of each LibreOffice app looks like its Office 95 equivalent
  • Each popup/toolbar available from the initial toolbars in Writer are themed correctly
  • Each popup/toolbar available from the initial toolbars in Calc are themed correctly
  • A proper .oxt file is built for easy installation, particularly through the application itself in menu Tools -> Extension Manager....
  • Transparency is set properly on assets

References