obtheme

About

ObTheme is a GUI theme editor for openbox. Among its features are a live preview mode, a built-in xbm image button editor and a palette for changing colors globally. ObTheme has no connection to an older application of the same name.

ObTheme follows the Openbox theme specification at http://icculus.org/openbox/index.php/Help:Themes.

Requirements

• python
• gtk2
• pygtk
• python-fuse (used for the live preview mode, to avoid constantly writing to the disk)

Screenshots

FAQ

Are you going to add an image preview like the one in ObConf?

Ideally, yes. I just don't know how to (yet). I'll try to figure out how ObConf does it and see if there's a way to do it in pygtk. If that doesn't work, maybe I'll just ask the ObConf devs to create a stand-alone previewer that I could embed. I promise nothing though.

What's up with the code? Why isn't it more pythonic?

I'm still relatively new to Python so there are probably quite a few bits of code that are noobish. I also hacked most of it together over 3 days learning quite a few things as I went so I know I need to go over it and clean it up. I'll get to it eventually.

I'm not using Arch Linux... how do I install it?

Just download the source tarball, unpack it and run obtheme. Make sure that you have python-fuse and pygtk (the latest version). If you really want to install it, package it for your distro's package manager so that obtheme is placed in your path. I'll get around to adding an install script eventually but it's not a priority right now as I don't even know if anyone is using this on something other than Arch Linux.