https://bgstack15.ddns.net/blog/enContents © 2022 <a href="mailto:bgstack15@gmail.com">bgstack15</a> <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"> <img alt="Creative Commons License BY-SA" style="border-width:0; margin-bottom:12px;" src="https://bgstack15.ddns.net/.images/l_by-sa_4.0_88x31.png"></a>Sun, 27 Feb 2022 04:05:03 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://bgstack15.ddns.net/blog/posts/2021/04/13/chicago95-icon-theme-for-libreoffice/bgstack15<p>I have started a project for converting the LibreOffice Writer and Calc experiences to as close to the Microsoft Office 95 experience as I could. You can contribute to the project on gitlab: <a href="https://gitlab.com/bgstack15/libreoffice-chicago95-iconset">https://gitlab.com/bgstack15/libreoffice-chicago95-iconset</a>. Some instructions from the README:</p> <pre class="code literal-block"><span></span><code><span class="nv">To</span> <span class="nv">assemble</span> <span class="nv">the</span> `<span class="nv">images_chicago95</span>.<span class="nv">zip</span>` <span class="nv">file</span> <span class="nv">and</span> <span class="nv">also</span> <span class="nv">the</span> .<span class="nv">oxt</span> <span class="nv">file</span>, <span class="nv">manually</span> <span class="nv">inspect</span> <span class="nv">and</span> <span class="nv">run</span> <span class="nv">build</span>.<span class="nv">sh</span>. .<span class="o">/</span><span class="nv">build</span>.<span class="nv">sh</span> <span class="nv">To</span> <span class="nv">place</span> <span class="nv">the</span> <span class="nv">iconset</span> <span class="nv">in</span> <span class="nv">the</span> <span class="nv">public</span> <span class="nv">location</span> <span class="k">for</span> <span class="nv">a</span> <span class="mi">64</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="nv">bit</span> <span class="nv">Linux</span> <span class="nv">distro</span>: <span class="nv">sudo</span> <span class="nv">cp</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="nv">p</span> <span class="nv">Chicago95</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="nv">theme</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="nv">iconsets</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="nv">images_chicago95</span>.<span class="nv">zip</span> <span class="o">/</span><span class="nv">usr</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="nv">lib64</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="nv">libreoffice</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="nv">share</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="nv">config</span><span class="o">/</span> </code></pre> <p>The OOTB (out-of-the-box) experience is now complete, but there are way more buttons to finish. Some of these buttons are hand-drawn, because a modern office suite does a lot more than Office 95 ever did. <a href="https://bgstack15.ddns.net/blog/2021/04/calc-chicago95.png"><img alt="LibreOffice Calc with the Chicago95 iconset" src="https://bgstack15.ddns.net/blog/2021/04/calc-chicago95.png"></a> <a href="https://bgstack15.ddns.net/blog/2021/04/writer-chicago95.png"><img alt="LibreOffice Writer with the Chicago95 iconset" src="https://bgstack15.ddns.net/blog/2021/04/writer-chicago95.png"></a> Contributions are welcome!</p>95chicago95iconlibreofficeofficehttps://bgstack15.ddns.net/blog/posts/2021/04/13/chicago95-icon-theme-for-libreoffice/Tue, 13 Apr 2021 13:03:19 GMT