OpenShot Video Editor was built with the idea that it's User Interface could be skinned or themed, but until now we've only had our default theme. That all changes today:
Today we are releasing our 2nd theme for OpenShot (version 0.9.52), in the spirit of the Tango-style. It was contributed by our friend, jEsuSdA 8)! Great job! The 3 screen-shots in this post were taken from jEsuSdA 8)'s website. I know there are some people who were not crazy about our default glassy blue interface, so I hope they enjoy this one.
I expect many more themes in the future, so this is just the beginning. If you are interested in contributing a theme, please locate the /openshot/themes/ folder, and take a look around. It should be fairly straight-forward how things work. =)
I expect many more themes in the future, so this is just the beginning. If you are interested in contributing a theme, please locate the /openshot/themes/ folder, and take a look around. It should be fairly straight-forward how things work. =)
So, I know what you are thinking. "Great... a new theme. But how do I switch my theme to this new one. Since it's Linux-based, I bet I have to type some commands in the terminal, right?" Not at all.
Step 1) Get the newest version of OpenShot (version 0.9.52)
Step 2) Click Edit / Preferences
Step 1) Get the newest version of OpenShot (version 0.9.52)
Step 2) Click Edit / Preferences
Step 3) Choose a Theme
Step 4) Click Apply
Oh yeah, did I mention we now have a preferences window? Well, thanks to Andy we now have a very functional preferences screen. Take a look at the first few options we added. They are all highly requested features, so we hope everyone enjoys them!
One final note to everyone. We've updated the 7 most downloaded language packs, and now they are included in our default DEB installer. In no particular order, they are Spanish, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, Swedish, and Italian. However, if you want to add your own language, just download the .MO file for your language from LaunchPad, and put it in the /openshot/locale/ folder.
UPDATE: To get version 0.9.52 of OpenShot, you must use the .DEB installers or the Build Wizard. Our PPA is being fixed at the moment, and is not being updated until we can resolve some of the dependency conflicts with VLC.
Step 4) Click Apply
Oh yeah, did I mention we now have a preferences window? Well, thanks to Andy we now have a very functional preferences screen. Take a look at the first few options we added. They are all highly requested features, so we hope everyone enjoys them!
One final note to everyone. We've updated the 7 most downloaded language packs, and now they are included in our default DEB installer. In no particular order, they are Spanish, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, Swedish, and Italian. However, if you want to add your own language, just download the .MO file for your language from LaunchPad, and put it in the /openshot/locale/ folder.
UPDATE: To get version 0.9.52 of OpenShot, you must use the .DEB installers or the Build Wizard. Our PPA is being fixed at the moment, and is not being updated until we can resolve some of the dependency conflicts with VLC.
October 20, 2009 2:42 AM
Thanks for the new release and for include my new Tango theme. :D
I have update the the for they who wants to have the EFFECTS icons tango-ized too. ;)
http://www.jesusda.com/blogpics/openshot-tango-pasodoble-effects.jpg
Tangoized Openshot (effects included)
October 20, 2009 7:05 AM
Great, great news.
I always found the default set to be not *quite* right. No idea why - perhaps my aversion to glassy glossy icons!
Great work - i always rather epicly proclaim OpenShot as "iMovie for Linux" and i shall continue to do so!
October 20, 2009 11:36 AM
Hmm... the Tango OpenShot icon looks too much like Exaile's... I wonder if there's a way to make it slightly different while still being faithful to the original glossy version.
October 20, 2009 1:51 PM
Hello everybody
OpenShot is different of the others projects because you can like JEsuSDA has done it personalise it. It's better and more efficent if you works in your prefer environnement. You can do that and you can share out it here. Like JEsuSDA, we can include the best themes for the news versions . But the themes are not alone, you can do that for the transitions and for the themes. Inkscape and Gimp communauty in the world it's time to wake up and to create.
Helen has created a comment on launchpad which explain that better like me. You can look at your salle on FReenot at #openshot and speak of us (if we are here of course). With your help, we can create a communauty and skin a lot of things (themes, titles, transitions) for you .You like it Created and Shared out.
Olivier/Cenwen
October 23, 2009 1:43 PM
The Tango skin looks much better than the default. Good job.
October 24, 2009 9:57 AM
Really should be default :)
October 24, 2009 1:51 PM
Another vote for making this the default skin. Some icons I found mysterious before now make perfect sense.
October 28, 2009 9:52 PM
this theme is good but I think a remix that included elements of both themes would be best. I likes the timeline glassy but the tango icons below the preview. That would/could be Good.