[Shell Patcher] Tango Icons for Windows

April 3, 2006

i can proudly say that the tango shell pack has dominated a good 50% or more of april desktops. dam its spreading fast.

Let's TAngo!!!!!

1,271 · April 3, 2006

I had the same problem here on my German Windows XP.

For avis Replacer replaces the wrong language resources. On a German Windows XP all icons and bitmaps are written to 1031, which is correct. The avis are written to 1033 (English Win XP) and you end up with resources in 1031 and 1033. But Windows displays the 1031 ones obviously.

I've changed the string '1033' to '1031' in all of the scripts and everything works perfect now (German Win XP). Dunno why Replacer injects only the avis in the wrong resource string?

D'oh, I didn't even think of that... I knew that different languages used IDs that weren't 1033 for strings and dialogs, but I sorta assumed that for non-language-specific resources like the AVIs, bitmaps, and icons, it used 1033 as a sort of default or fallback. I think the scripts can actually have the language ID field omitted, but I hadn't seen it done back when I started my win2k pack, and so the hardcoded 1033s got copied and pasted everywhere. I'll do a quick find-and-replace, and if things still seem right, I'll drop that in the next release. Thanks for pointing that out, I'm surprised that hasn't blown up in someone's face before now!

4,319 · April 3, 2006

Never ever felt the need to patch the shell, just for new icons etc but I have with Tango. Abosutely love these icons

April 4, 2006

D'oh, I didn't even think of that... I knew that different languages used IDs that weren't 1033 for strings and dialogs, but I sorta assumed that for non-language-specific resources like the AVIs, bitmaps, and icons, it used 1033 as a sort of default or fallback. I think the scripts can actually have the language ID field omitted, but I hadn't seen it done back when I started my win2k pack, and so the hardcoded 1033s got copied and pasted everywhere. I'll do a quick find-and-replace, and if things still seem right, I'll drop that in the next release. Thanks for pointing that out, I'm surprised that hasn't blown up in someone's face before now!

I have followed Martin's advise and it worked for me : -)). I'm using Russian Windows XP and changed 1033 to 1049.

Meantime I have a problem with exclamation mark in MS office application. It looks that bitmap of exclamation mark is bigger than original one.

Can you look at the below capture?

I had the same problem here on my German Windows XP.

For avis Replacer replaces the wrong language resources. On a German Windows XP all icons and bitmaps are written to 1031, which is correct. The avis are written to 1033 (English Win XP) and you end up with resources in 1031 and 1033. But Windows displays the 1031 ones obviously.

I've changed the string '1033' to '1031' in all of the scripts and everything works perfect now (German Win XP). Dunno why Replacer injects only the avis in the wrong resource string?

Thank you for your advise, Martin. I'm using Russian windows XP and changed 1033 to 1049. After change it worked for me.

1,271 · April 4, 2006

Yeah, it's definitely bughunt time for me.

1. I've got the language issue fixed (if one of you on a non-English version can test replacing all instances of "1033" with a null string, instead of your native language ID, I can confirm that)

2. I'm going to play with the script a bunch more anyways, I like its simplicity too much to dump it for a big ugly win32 GUI installer... with this, it might suck, but it's my personal creation of suck. And play with it, I need to - the uninstaller is most definitely borked (one guy on DA who uninstalled and commented got bit), I either need to play with how it works or drop comctl32.dll except as some sort of special "if you want your system permanently tangooied" module. Even SFC /scannow doesn't recopy the original versions of comctl32... messing with files managed by Fusion is bad, mmkay kiddies?

3. I've been seeing the mis-sized icons too... I suspect it might have something to do with icon ordering, historically I think icons are supposed to have 32x32 first (win3.x), 16x16 second (win95), and then 48x48 icons (ie4/win98), and so things that are asking for a specific sub-ID of an icon group are pulling the wrong one, since I've got them in descending order (48>32>24>16). I think I might need to go through and re-order all of them, though, which might be a pain. I'll be sure to at least test it with the most highly visible icons that I see with this problem re-ordered (the user32.dll common dialog icons like that being most of them, the other being something related to deleting stuff, I'll have to keep an eye out for it)

4. Slightly less important, I'm including the folder icons from Tango-Custom as alternates (I personally like them a bit better) alongside some icons for program categories and portable media players, and I'm going to tweak some of the icons so they line up a little better (drop the folders and drives on the the Gnome Hand Of Sharing a little better, maybe try to actually Tangofy the Gnome Hand Of Sharing since I doubt the upstream artists will, and resize the trash icon so that the transition between an empty and full trash can isn't as bad). @Leadhead, I'll drop in the eject glyph for the safely remove hardware icon.

Wow. That's a lot of stuff to work on. My little project's becoming a hobby. Anybody got any other nits to pick? Really, lay 'em out, I'll look at 'em :) Sleepytime!

Edited April 4, 2006 by vertigosity

1,657 · April 4, 2006

I cant install it neither.

The cmd window just popup with some internal error msg (too fast to read what is it) and the XP(eng) restart.

:cry:

1,271 · April 4, 2006

I cant install it neither.
The cmd window just popup with some internal error msg (too fast to read what is it) and the XP(eng) restart.

:cry:

Edit hack-o-matic.bat in a text editor, and insert the line "pause" above "shutdown -r -t 00" - then you can see the output, copy and paste it here, and I'll see if I can't point you in the right direction... I'm really starting to have had enough of these silly little batch files :pinch:

April 4, 2006

I would offer my help as an Non-English XP tester... (thanks to Acronis True Image). PM me if you need help!

1,657 · April 5, 2006

Edit hack-o-matic.bat in a text editor, and insert the line "pause" above "shutdown -r -t 00" - then you can see the output, copy and paste it here, and I'll see if I can't point you in the right direction... I'm really starting to have had enough of these silly little batch files :pinch:

Thanks mate...that "pause" tip helped alot....there was a problem with XPize, now i removed and i could install the Tango Patcher....and im lovin' it...

:D

April 6, 2006

@Leadhead, I'll drop in the eject glyph for the safely remove hardware icon.

Sorry I never replied. I forgot I even posted, silly me. :p

Anyway, the eject glyph will look good next to the other tray icons, methinks. Thanks a lot =]

April 7, 2006

I have the same problem with XPize, i cant install the package.

I uninstalled XPize but it still says XPize at the top, internal error.

The background of the command prompt is blue still, which was done by XPize, so im guessing i reinstall it (maybe a newer version) and then uninstall it again?

I'm lost, ill post the prompt:

15:43:51.23 - XPize

The system cannot find the path specified.