[ALTF - Theme] If you want to try a custom theme for the Alt-F web interface... it's here

[Daniele Strollo]

Hi all,

i don't know if here is the right section where to contribute with custom patches but let's say that I prepared a custom theme for the web gui for my self and I supposed it was appreciated the sharing of it.

The attached file (modern_thm.tgz) is a set of js and css for giving a different interface.

To install it you just need to execute from the raid shell

cd /usr/www

tar -zxvf modern_thm.tgz

and go to System->Utilities->Theme and choose modern :)

Cheers,

  Daniele

[Fabricio Araujo]

Good job

[Bryan Popka]

Thanks for sharing! Would someone mind posting screen captures of what the theme looks like? That way we all can decide if we like the look before installing.

[Daniele Strollo]

Here it is!

[Daniele Strollo]

Icons can be chosen from the fontawesome list

http://fontawesome.io/icons/

Consider that the embedded fontawesome lib is older so there will be some of them missing (I'll update ASAP)

- How to customize icons???

Edit the file /usr/www/scripts/modern/modern.js in the code block (for each section its related icon :D):

function getIconFromLabel(mnuLbl) {
        /* TODO */
        switch (mnuLbl) {
                case 'Status' : return 'fa-ambulance';
                case 'Shortcuts' : return 'fa-external-link';
                case 'Setup': return 'fa-briefcase';
                case 'Disk': return 'fa-database';
                case 'Services': return 'fa-cogs';
                case 'Packages': return 'fa-tachometer';
                case 'System': return 'fa-desktop';
                case 'Logout': return 'fa-chain-broken';
        }


        return 'fa-user'
}

[Christopher Matuszak]

Why is this not default theme?? I love it!

[Daniele Strollo]

Thanks a lot :)

[TheCoolDude]

Hello Daniele.

Just wanted to thank for this great theme.  I just installed it on RC6 and it look very good.

The only bug I could find was the top menu will not appear when selected.  Not a big deal as I prefer the side menu.

The only thing I would recommend is to re-upload your package as a zip file containing the modern folder and modern.thm file.

I needed to do this in order to get it to upload through the System utilities.

Cheer!

[Daniele Strollo]

Hi Jaen,

  happy to hear that someone found the theme useful.

I'm running the RC5 firmware so I had to way to check the issues in the new release.

I'm planning anyway to upgrade ASAP but in the meanwhile if you can provide a screenshot to better describe the issue I'll give a look.

Here is how it appears in my release.

Daniele

Il giorno domenica 12 marzo 2017 17:58:36 UTC+1, TheCoolDude ha scritto:

Hello Daniele.

Just wanted to thank for this great theme.  I just installed it on RC6 and it look very good.

The only bug I could find was the top menu will not appear when selected.  Not a big deal as I prefer the side menu.

[Daniele Strollo]

In the meanwhile a new gray based theme available..... 

[Daniele Strollo]

And finally .... on github...

https://github.com/strollo/altf_theme

Installation instruction inside ;)

Contributions are welcome 

[K Robert]

Hello, 

I'm trying to install you're theme (in ssh console as root), but at the command: git clone https://github.com/strollo/altf_theme.git modern, i'm getting the error : -sh: git: not found

Any advise?

I'm on RC6

[daniele strollo]

Yes.

You need to install git before doing that.

You can do that with web interface in the Packages section otherwise through console by executing command:

ipkg install git

And that's all.

  Daniele

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[K Robert]

Hello, 

Yes, i got it working, you're right, the git repositories where not installed.

In you're readme, i found a mistake, the corect command for copy the theme file is:

 cp modern/modern.thm modern.thm

I managed to install you're theme , and it looks really good. Keep up the good work

I haven't tried yet to reboot the NAS , to see if the theme remains installed (i had this problem before) 

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[daniele strollo]

Thanks for the advice.

Anyway if you intend the mistake in command

  cp modern/modern.thm .

the dot (.) at the end stays for keep the same name so it's equivalent to your command.

But thanks.

Now if you want to try the dark theme that I prefer, go into theme dir and switch branch to dark so execute these two lines:

  cd /usr/www/scripts

  git checkout dark

and refresh browser :D

  Daniele

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 2:36 PM, K Robert <robe...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hellon, 

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[daniele strollo]

Sorry for the mistake the commands are:

  cd /usr/www/scripts/modern

  git checkout dark

[K Robert]

I'm getting an error...

[root@DNS320]# cd /usr/www/scripts

[root@DNS320]# git checkout dark

fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

[daniele strollo]

my fault wrong directory

write

cd /usr/www/scripts/modern

and then

git checkout dark

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[michael aramini]

Bonjour, d'abord merci pour votre theme et votre travail. 

je l'ai installer avec la command suivante scp /home/ubuntu/modern_thm.tgz ro...@192.168.100.27:/usr/www

puis tar -zxvf modern_thm.tgz

mais chez moi (sur le Nas DNS320RevA1) en RC-6 Alt-f il est incomplet pouvez vous m'aider a optenir le menu sur la gauche car je n'ai que la page central. d'autre on ce probleme ?

qu'ai-fait de faut ? merci pour votre aide. Michael

Bonjour, d'abord merci pour votre thème et votre travail.

Je l'ai installeur avec le programme suivant scp /home/ubuntu/modern_thm.tgz ro...@192.168.100.27: / usr / www

Puis tar -zxvf modern_thm.tgz

Mais chez moi (sur le Nas DNS320RevA1) en RC-6 Alt-f il est incomplète vous pouvez m'aider un optenir le menu sur la gauche voiture je n'ai que la page central. D'autre sur ce probleme?

Qu'ai-fait de faut? Merci pour votre aide. Michael

image de l'aperçu : 

[Daniele Strollo]

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

1 - connect in ssh on your nas

> ssh root@<...NAS-IP...>

2 - be sure git is installed on it

> ipkg update

> ipkg install git

3 - get theme from github

> cd /usr/www/scripts

> git clone https://github.com/strollo/altf_theme.git modern

> cp modern/modern.thm modern.thm

4 - OPTIONALLY

If you want to switch to DARK theme write

> cd /usr/www/scripts/modern

> git checkout dark

And that's all ;)

  Daniele

[michael aramini]

Ok thanks I will test and I leave another message if work for me thanks for your work

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[Rolf Pedersen]

Thanks for your work, Daniele, your instructions worked fine for my DNS-323.
ISTR the top menu was a deferred project, for you, and I wonder if you still plan to make it, or if I missed it.
Rolf

[daniele strollo]

Thank you for appreciating my work.

If I have well understood I prefer to have a top horizontal menu in place of left vertical one.

If so ... no never planned to do that but it should require no much effort at all.

This was just the style i preferred.

Now that it is on github 

https://github.com/strollo/altf_theme.git 

it is also community driven :)

  Daniele

[Rolf Pedersen]

Yes, you are correct!  Thanks.

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[kKimmell]

Is there a trick to getting the theme to survive reboots? I've saved settings but upon reboot it's back to default and the theme option isn't even on the dropdown any more.

[daniele strollo]

The problem is not in the theme itself but on where it is stored.

Since Alt-F at each reboot takes a "skeleton image" and copies the files in the /usr/... it depends on where and how you have installed Alt-F itself

Daniele

On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 2:29 PM, kKimmell <kevki...@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there a trick to getting the theme to survive reboots? I've saved settings but upon reboot it's back to default and the theme option isn't even on the dropdown any more.

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[kKimmell]

On Friday, May 5, 2017 at 8:37:04 AM UTC-4, Daniele Strollo wrote:

The problem is not in the theme itself but on where it is stored.

Since Alt-F at each reboot takes a "skeleton image" and copies the files in the /usr/... it depends on where and how you have installed Alt-F itself

Daniele

So if I installed Alt-F the "usual way" and in /mnt/md0/Alt-F/ what steps do I need to take? I considered a script from cron to re-git and copy but there must be a simpler way...

[João Cardoso]

On Friday, 5 May 2017 14:12:50 UTC+1, kKimmell wrote:

On Friday, May 5, 2017 at 8:37:04 AM UTC-4, Daniele Strollo wrote:

The problem is not in the theme itself but on where it is stored.

Since Alt-F at each reboot takes a "skeleton image" and copies the files in the /usr/... it depends on where and how you have installed Alt-F itself

Daniele

So if I installed Alt-F the "usual way" and in /mnt/md0/Alt-F/ what steps do I need to take? 

 

In RC6, the Theme upload and install script does:

THM_DIR=/usr/www/scripts

...

aufs.sh -n

mkdir -p /Alt-F/$THM_DIR

aufs.sh -r

to make the theme installable on disk and persistent across reboots

But for themes to be accepted the zip file must follow some simple rules:

-The zip filename must be the same as the theme name, so file "foobar.zip" will contain a "foobar" theme

-the only allowed contents of the zip file are a <theme>.thm (foobar.thm) file and a folder named <theme> (foobar) containing all theme support files.

I considered a script from cron to re-git and copy but there must be a simpler way...

IMO, having to install and run git only to get a theme is... modern, but not practical (said the old men ;-)

[michael aramini]

Hello, thankx for dark theme and work. but on my dns-320-rev:a1 with rc6 alt-f the left menu not show is show original theme. 

i have installed from new git and the dark switch ok, but no left menu

why ? you can help me please ?

see screenshot: 

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[daniele strollo]

There are two possibile reasons:

1 - browser cache (easy to check if you refresh opportunely the page or use another browser). So please try this!

2 - in the rc6 nodes in the menu are using a different class/id in the tags and I never noticed this problem since I'm still on rc5 in this case I have to upgrade firmware and check again.

Daniele

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[Pierre GUILHEM]

Hi,

Very nice, thank you for this theme ;-)

PG

[Joaquim Monteiro]

I'm having issues with the installation steps

Can you please help me out? thanks.

[root@SERVER]# ipkg update

Downloading https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/alt-f/pkgs/stable/Packages

Updated list of available packages in /usr/lib/ipkg/lists/feed_1

Downloading https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/alt-f/pkgs/unstable/Packages

Updated list of available packages in /usr/lib/ipkg/lists/feed_2

Successfully terminated.

[root@SERVER]# ipkg install git

Installing git (2.4.2-1) to /Alt-F...

Downloading https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/alt-f/pkgs/unstable/git_2.4.2-1_arm.ipk

Installing perl (5.16.0-4) to /Alt-F...

Downloading https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/alt-f/pkgs/unstable/perl_5.16.0-4_arm.ipk

Nothing to be done

An error ocurred, return value: 22.

Collected errors:

ipkg_download: ERROR: Command failed with return value 3: `wget --passive-ftp    -q -P /tmp/ipkg-ZqmqcN https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/alt-f/pkgs/unstable/perl_5.16.0-4_arm.ipk'

Failed to download perl. Perhaps you need to run 'ipkg update'?

[Daniele Strollo]

From logs you posted the problem was during installation of git, or more precisely of its dependency perl-5.6

While trying to get perl with this instruction 

  wget --passive-ftp    -q -P /tmp/ipkg-ZqmqcN https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/alt-f/pkgs/unstable/perl_5.16.0-4_arm.ipk

tried on my pc and this instruction is working probably it was not reachable for a while. Try again to reinstall git.

 Daniele

[Daniele Strollo]

Otherwise if you cannot find any solution to install git on the machine try with manual install.

These three lines will replace the git part (so you will no more need to install git) mentioned before....

> cd /usr/www/scripts

> wget https://github.com/strollo/altf_theme/archive/master.zip

> unzip master.zip

> mv altf_theme-master modern

in place of....  

cd /usr/www/scripts

> git clone https://github.com/strollo/altf_theme.git modern

[daniele strollo]

That's because you forget to unzip the file.

After wget you have to execute unzip master.zip

You did

[root@SERVER]# cd /usr/www/scripts

[root@SERVER]# wget ...

### HERE IS MISSING unzip master.zip that will extract the content of altf_theme-master folder

[root@SERVER]# mv altf_theme-master modern 

On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 1:38 AM Joaquim Monteiro <quim.m...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for your prompt reply, however its still not working..

[root@SERVER]# cd /usr/www/scripts

[root@SERVER]# wget https://github.com/strollo/altf_theme/archive/master.zip

--2019-05-14 16:16:10--  https://github.com/strollo/altf_theme/archive/master.zip

Resolving github.com... 140.82.118.3

Connecting to github.com|140.82.118.3|:443... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found

Location: https://codeload.github.com/strollo/altf_theme/zip/master [following]

--2019-05-14 16:16:12--  https://codeload.github.com/strollo/altf_theme/zip/master

Resolving codeload.github.com... 192.30.253.120

Connecting to codeload.github.com|192.30.253.120|:443... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: unspecified [application/zip]

Saving to: 'master.zip'

master.zip                        [    <=>                                           ] 528.29K   717KB/s    in 0.7s

2019-05-14 16:16:13 (717 KB/s) - 'master.zip' saved [540974]

[root@SERVER]# mv altf_theme-master modern

mv: can't rename 'altf_theme-master': No such file or directory

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