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BlackIcons.pkg 2.0, September 1996, by Tom Hageman <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl>
This package restores the black monitor icons we all were so grown fond
of before NEXTSTEP 3.3 replaced them all with "industry-standard" white
versions. It is completely reversible, so if you ever decide you want
the white icons back you don't have to re-install the affected
applications from CD-ROM.
This release of BlackIcons is updated for compatibility with
OPENSTEP/Mach 4.0. It should continue to work with NS3.3. It also
fixes a bug that prevented version 1.0 to be installed on non-developer
systems.
INSTALLATION
Open BlackIcon.pkg in Installer, and click Install. You should run
Installer as "root", or else the package will refuse to install.
(either login as root, or select the the package in Workspace Manager
and choose the "Services->Open Sesame->Open as Root" menu item.)
The package also refuses to install on systems running NS3.2 and below.
The installation is interactive; along the way you will have to make a
decision whether or not you want to replace some of the more
`controversial' (in my opinion, of course) icons. For each such icon
(or group of icons), an alert box will pop up, which initially displays
the replacement icon. You can choose [Replace] to use the replacement
icon, [Keep] to keep the original (i.e. NS3.3/4.0) version of the icon, or
[Show original] -- this redisplays the alert box with the original icon
displayed, and a [Show replacement] button instead of [Show original].
(Yeah, I know this is a bit clunky but somehow I couldn't be bothered to
write a special-purpose alert box that displays the two icons side by
side just for this one occasion...)
The `controversial' icons are:
Preferences (Boot/Power icon) -- maybe you want to keep the 3.3 icon
to be consistent with Loginwindow's power-off icon.
Terminal (app icon) -- this is also used in terminal miniwindows,
where the output indication is pasted on top of it. Since the
3.2 and 3.3/4.0 icon's screen areas differ, this looks a bit sloppy.
InterfaceBuilder (CustomObject icon) -- Some people may actually
prefer the 3.3dev/EOF building block instead of the yellow sphere.
SECURITY
The protection of all affected executables is preserved. You don't have
to edit any scripts to accommodate security restrictions on your site.
DEINSTALLATION
If you would ever want to remove the `black' icons, just open
/NextLibrary/Receipts/BlackIcons.pkg in Installer, and click Delete.
(again, Installer should be run as "root".) This restores the `white'
icons in their full g[l]ory. (Now why on earth would you ever want to
do that? Ah, dunno, before an OS upgrade maybe...)
The package cannot be Compressed, sorry about that. Just keep the
original distribution around.
DISCLAIMER
!!!USE THIS PACKAGE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!
Although I tried very hard to make it work correctly I cannot guarantee
that it will not damage your installation. If you don't trust this
package please read the BlackIcons.pkg/BlackIcons.post_install and
BlackIcons.pkg/BlackIcons.post_delete scripts carefully. So to be
completely safe, make a backup of your harddisk and keep your
installation CD-ROM and -player handy. Now if this sounds overly
disheartening, please note that I developed it using my own
(CD-ROM-playerless) home system as a guinea pig, without ill effects...
Checksums of the package, obtained with "sum BlackIcons.pkg/*", are:
39982 24 BlackIcons.pkg/BlackIcons.bom
47831 1 BlackIcons.pkg/BlackIcons.info
46535 4 BlackIcons.pkg/BlackIcons.post_delete
23247 5 BlackIcons.pkg/BlackIcons.post_install
53244 1 BlackIcons.pkg/BlackIcons.pre_delete
45395 1 BlackIcons.pkg/BlackIcons.pre_install
35057 1 BlackIcons.pkg/BlackIcons.sizes
49715 125 BlackIcons.pkg/BlackIcons.tar.Z
32221 3 BlackIcons.pkg/BlackIcons.tiff
21811 103 BlackIcons.pkg/ShellUtils.tar.Z
07236 2 BlackIcons.pkg/utilities.sh
HISTORY
v2.0, September 1996
- Upgraded to OPENSTEP/Mach 4.0.
- BlackIcons-1.0 failed to install on non-developer systems since it needs
`segedit'. To fix this a quad-fat copy of (NS3.3) `segedit' is included
in this release.
v1.0, July 1995
- First public release.
LEGALIA
Icons
Copyright (C) 1988-1994 NeXT Computer, Inc.
These icons are copied from NEXTSTEP 3.2; it's probably illegal
to install them on a machine if you did not at one point own a NS
3.2 licence for that machine. (but then, I'm not a lawyer/-)
segedit
Copyright (C) 1988-1994 NeXT Computer, Inc.
Installer package scripts
Copyright (C) 1995,1996 Tom R. Hageman.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this software; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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