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hmmmm
thought i put up my mail to victor so i dont have to type it over and over in the event that anyone else is interested, but still, if u want just PM me or email or whatever and ill help out.
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Well, all about litestep, Huh?
first of all, if you know some of ANY computer language (knowledge of the language is irrelevant, just the fact that you know that much about computers) you can learn to use litestep. Go to www.litestep.com and IMO LSBasic is the best package to download.
Litestep is open source, like Linux, so basically the people who produce this engine only produce the engine, not an installation package or anything anymore. There are tons of packages, but like I said, LSBasic is a good way to start.
You'll install it and eventually click "i want to make Litestep my default shell." Now your computer will start up and run the LSBasic theme. The current LSBasic "theme" looks and feels a lot like windows. There is a taskbar, a shortcut menu, all sorts of windows things, but instead of the programs group and a few other things, there is a popup menu. I dont like this setup so I changed it, but thats a whole different story.
Basically there are a few different things you NEED to learn your way around.
1) step.rc in the litestep folder.
In the LSBasic package step.rc refers to "theme.rc" to simplify the theme changing process. When you open it up in notepad you will see what im talking about.
2) theme.rc in the theme directory.
here is where many of the main customizations are defined. In my case, the wharf, winamp display, and all the DLLs needed to run the different modules I use are all configured in theme.rc
3) user.rc in the litstep\user folder
this defines your "menu" (the popup thing on my screenshot) and and other personal settings such as hotkeys.
These three files control EVERYTHING about your desktop. (note: all these files may be combined into one step.rc, but using the $include$ variable you can separate different groups of definitions for ease of use and customization.
OK, im sure you may be lost by now, but once you take a look at those files and mess around a bit youll find that its not that hard to make things look exactly as you like.
Finally, one last piece of advise.. to begin with, under the litestep\themes folder, make a copy of LSBasic and put it somewhere else so you always have an original in case you mess up and cant get back into windows. Also, make sure you know how to get into DOS (right from the startup, not through windows) so you can copy those files back over the messed up ones. once you know and have done these two things, start your theming by editing the LSBasic *.rc files and graphics. By doing this you really dont need much knowledge of the "language" and can jump right in. The directories are all stated, and with photoshop and notepad you can easily redo the given theme to look as you please.
Hope you can get into this, and good luck!
Cheers
-Marc
any more questions?
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. Hehe, you should see the look on my face the first time i did something wrong with the shell stuff in system.ini, and windows ordered me to reinstall. Thank Godd i had a friend there to help me, or else i had formatted away all my shite..
