wine users - Feb 2006 - Tried to load a theme, didn't work. No error message.

I searched every wine forum and wiki I could find, but there's no
information on wine theming.

I downloaded an *.msstyles file, and opened it with winecfg (Desktop
Integration->Install theme...). Nothing changed. The style I selected
didn't even get added to the list - the only option is still "(No
Theme)". There was no error message.

wine 0.9.8
This is the style I tried:
http://www.skinbase.org/rate.php?skins=27543

Please help - If someone could explain to me how I can get a theme
(ANY theme) working I'd be happy to start or add to a wiki page so
that it'll be easier for others to figure this out on their own.

From: Sterling Christensen <sterling.christensen@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 28, 2006 2:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Wine] Tried to load a theme, didn't work. No error message.
To: Song Zhiwei <songzw@mail.ustc.edu.cn>


Nope, I tried that. The menu that pops up contains only "(No theme)".
No other entries.

On 2/27/06, Song Zhiwei <songzw@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
wrote:
>
>
> Click "No Theme", you will see a menu.
>
> >From: "Sterling Christensen"
<sterling.christensen@gmail.com>
> >
> >I searched every wine forum and wiki I could find, but there's no
> >information on wine theming.
> >
> >I downloaded an *.msstyles file, and opened it with winecfg (Desktop
> >Integration->Install theme...). Nothing changed. The style I
selected
> >didn't even get added to the list - the only option is still
"(No
> >Theme)". There was no error message.
> >
> >wine 0.9.8
> >This is the style I tried:
> >http://www.skinbase.org/rate.php?skins=27543
> >
> >Please help - If someone could explain to me how I can get a theme
> >(ANY theme) working I'd be happy to start or add to a wiki page so
> >that it'll be easier for others to figure this out on their own.
> >
> >_______________________________________________
> >wine-users mailing list
> >wine-users@winehq.org
> >http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
>
>
>
>

>From: Sterling Christensen <sterling.christensen@gmail.com>
>Date: Feb 28, 2006 2:02 AM
>Subject: Re: [Wine] Tried to load a theme, didn't work. No error
message.
>To: Song Zhiwei <songzw@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
>
>
>Nope, I tried that. The menu that pops up contains only "(No
theme)".
>No other entries.

The themes need to be in the ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/Resources/Themes
directory.

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mkdir -p ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/Resources/Themes
cd ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/Resources/Themes


Usually, all you need to do then is to unzip an XP theme into that
directory:

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unzip /d/dl/ClearLooks_2_2.zip

(yes, that's a WinXP version of the Gnome ClearLooks theme,
http://www.deviantart.com/download/18591720/ , which I use to make my Wine
apps blend in with the rest of Ubuntu).

Then the next time you run winecfg, the theme will be available in the
list.

The problem I see with the example you gave is that it does not create the
subdirectory in .../Themes for itself.  The themes have to be in
subdirectories under .../Themes, so you first have to "mkdir luna ; cd
luna", then you can unzip your lunae.zip file there.