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- Posted: Apr 14th 2005, 14:14
Having recently read Chris Clark’s post about customising netnewswire, I decided to have a play myself. I currently use David Watanabe’s NewsFire and so I had a root around. There is no theming system, as yet, but I poked around in the package to find that Contents:Resources:Themes:Default was filled with images, templates and stylesheets. Perfect.
First things first: back it up! Or at least be prepared for funkiness if it totally mushes up. That being said, I had no problems but you can’t be too careful. Right, within the “Default” folder you will find several files of which you want to play with four:
- Item.Template
- DateParentFooter.Template
- DateFooter.Template
- Style.css
The template files are basically HTML templates for all of the different sections of the application. The modifications I have made aren’t perfect and need tweaking a little. There is room for improvement. I welcome any suggestions and will re-publish any version changes if anyone wants to send them to me.
The files are available to download and play with.