lisai9093 Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 OSS Theme updated. OSS.zip The goal of this theme is to mimic vanilla Boot Camp screen on real Mac, which looks like: Here is my theme currently looks like: Clearly there is lots of work needed to be done, e.g. font, arrow, selection box, etc. But it is really challenging to me. So I need you guys' help. My question are: How to generate png font file "mpr.png" from existing system font? How to show arrow indicator on GUI Clover? How can I use larger icon file? The current one I am using is 128x128. So can I switch to 256x256 to better support high resolution monitor? 3 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/288685-clover-themes/page/12/#findComment-2137378 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 @lisai9093, need to be honest with you, i love themes of this type. Create more themes like that! We need a new mavsgreysmall theme, with new icons. E.g: Yosemite. 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/288685-clover-themes/page/12/#findComment-2137409 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisai9093 Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 OSS.zip Update: - Selection box from real Boot Camp screen. - Font adjustment Comments: I did some research on fonts used by Clover. It seems Clover only recognizes fonts with fixed width, which I believe old Chameleon can do much better job. 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/288685-clover-themes/page/12/#findComment-2137518 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slice Posted May 21, 2015 Author Share Posted May 21, 2015 It seems Clover only recognizes fonts with fixed width, which I believe old Chameleon can do much better job. False 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/288685-clover-themes/page/12/#findComment-2137533 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisai9093 Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 False That's good to hear. But I can't find any exist font under Clover site that have varying width, nor any instruction how to create our own font. It also seems Clover's source codes regarding to font are imported from GNU GRUB. So should I research on GNU site then? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/288685-clover-themes/page/12/#findComment-2137562 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slice Posted May 21, 2015 Author Share Posted May 21, 2015 That's good to hear. But I can't find any exist font under Clover site that have varying width, nor any instruction how to create our own font. It also seems Clover's source codes regarding to font are imported from GNU GRUB. So should I research on GNU site then? No, variable width is possible by freetype (The FreeType Project) but this is very huge work to implement. Chameleon uses constant width as well. It's hard to imaging that Chameleon is able to get over the difficulty. There is nothing from Grub. About existing fonts I may say they are drawn by different artist. First russian font created by dmdimon. The most significant contribution was made by Blackosx. The best software is Adobe Photoshop. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/288685-clover-themes/page/12/#findComment-2137654 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisai9093 Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 No, variable width is possible by freetype (The FreeType Project) but this is very huge work to implement. Chameleon uses constant width as well. It's hard to imaging that Chameleon is able to get over the difficulty. There is nothing from Grub. About existing fonts I may say they are drawn by different artist. First russian font created by dmdimon. The most significant contribution was made by Blackosx. The best software is Adobe Photoshop. Thanks for your information. But clearly Chameleon does have variable character width support. For example here is the screenshot: I also found the font working principle from voodooprojects.org site: http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php?topic=388.0 Basically chameleon separate each character by a red dot, therefore it can have different width for each character. I wonder if Clover can do the same thing? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/288685-clover-themes/page/12/#findComment-2137658 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris1111 Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 Sorry Slice off topic do you know where is blacksosx?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/288685-clover-themes/page/12/#findComment-2137663 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Xtreme Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 I know this is (sorta) off topic but how do I create a theme I googled but that seems to not be of much help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/288685-clover-themes/page/12/#findComment-2137687 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slice Posted May 23, 2015 Author Share Posted May 23, 2015 Thanks for your information. But clearly Chameleon does have variable character width support. For example here is the screenshot: Screen Shot 2015-05-21 at 1.07.28 PM.png I also found the font working principle from voodooprojects.org site: http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php?topic=388.0 Screen Shot 2015-05-21 at 1.02.37 PM.png Basically chameleon separate each character by a red dot, therefore it can have different width for each character. I wonder if Clover can do the same thing? Wow! Sorry, I didn't know this. And how long this feature exists? No Clover has no such possibility. Hope some day it will be. 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/288685-clover-themes/page/12/#findComment-2138013 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisai9093 Posted May 23, 2015 Share Posted May 23, 2015 Wow! Sorry, I didn't know this. And how long this feature exists? No Clover has no such possibility. Hope some day it will be. The website is updated in 2012. So the variable width font feature existed at least 2 years. Since chameleon is open source, maybe some programmers can import the feature into Clover someday? 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/288685-clover-themes/page/12/#findComment-2138140 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackosx Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 Sorry Slice off topic do you know where is blacksosx?? Still here just busy with life I know this is (sorta) off topic but how do I create a theme I googled but that seems to not be of much help.Best approach would be to take an existing theme you like and start replacing image files with your own. Image format is .png. Then move on to changing the theme.plist file to reposition elements. Be prepared that it will take some time to complete. ** Note: device icon image files can/will be named with file extension .icns even though they are actually .png files. No Clover has no such possibility. Hope some day it will be. It would be a nice addition. Maybe for clover 3.0 ? 2 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/288685-clover-themes/page/12/#findComment-2138415 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slice Posted May 25, 2015 Author Share Posted May 25, 2015 If Clover 3.0 ever will be.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/288685-clover-themes/page/12/#findComment-2138469 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iRipper Posted May 26, 2015 Share Posted May 26, 2015 If Clover 3.0 ever will be.... What do you mean by that? Also, what are your thoughts on 10.11 "Rootless" thing that may lock files away from us? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/288685-clover-themes/page/12/#findComment-2138869 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhaeuser Posted May 26, 2015 Share Posted May 26, 2015 By the quote he means that since September '14 nothing happened publicly (wherever apianti might be now). And "Rootless" shouldn't mean anything to us. FS is FS and you can always manipulate it, if not from the inside, then from the outside. Might harm kext injection though if they tighten up kernel security... 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/288685-clover-themes/page/12/#findComment-2138936 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackosx Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Fonts for themes - Update. Proportional spacing Since r3216, you can use both monospaced and proportional fonts as clover supports proportional spacing for fonts. The feature works on a per theme basis and is enabled by editing a themes’ theme.plist and inserting a ‘Proportional’ key set to ‘true’ in the Font section. Example: <key>Font</key> <dict> <key>CharWidth</key> <integer>10</integer> <key>Path</key> <string>GoB_PTMono_10W_Bevel3.png</string> <key>Type</key> <string>Load</string> <key>Proportional</key> <true/> </dict> Fonts Font files can be created using a combination of a script and ImageMagick. Follow this link for more details. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/306356-create-font-files-for-bootloader-guis/ 4 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/288685-clover-themes/page/12/#findComment-2142008 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisai9093 Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Wow, great work done by Slice and Blackosx! Here is the screen shot for OSS with proportional=true, font changed to San Francisco: Download: OSS.zip 4 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/288685-clover-themes/page/12/#findComment-2142136 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris1111 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Waht is the name for the El Capitane icon ? os_el.icns Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/288685-clover-themes/page/12/#findComment-2143975 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackosx Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Hi chris1111 os_cap.icns http://sourceforge.net/p/cloverefiboot/code/3223/tree//rEFIt_UEFI/Platform/Settings.c?diff=504c3833fd48f873331ebd05:3222 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/288685-clover-themes/page/12/#findComment-2143984 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris1111 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Hi chris1111 os_cap.icns http://sourceforge.net/p/cloverefiboot/code/3223/tree//rEFIt_UEFI/Platform/Settings.c?diff=504c3833fd48f873331ebd05:3222 Thank you Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/288685-clover-themes/page/12/#findComment-2143985 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris1111 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 blackosx I whant to add my theme Space Do you give me please the permission Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/288685-clover-themes/page/12/#findComment-2144068 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackosx Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Hi Chris1111 Done. 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/288685-clover-themes/page/12/#findComment-2144108 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris1111 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Hi Chris1111 Done. Done thanks blackosx All of my theme is Update with the new icon os_cap.icns 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/288685-clover-themes/page/12/#findComment-2144157 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackosx Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Well done chris1111 I will update my themes when I get some time. EDIT: Done - Themes are up to date in Clover theme repo. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/288685-clover-themes/page/12/#findComment-2144171 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris1111 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Well done chris1111 I will update my themes when I get some time. I take this for create my icon Do you think its a good one ? 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/288685-clover-themes/page/12/#findComment-2144172 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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