Removing Images from Skin

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Hello. First post in here.

Despite its quirks, I find object desktop as a good replacement of the start menu (mostly) so I ended up registering it. Ocassionaly I find annoyances but at the end I always end up using ObjectDock again.

Today I faced one of such annoyances, and I hope I can get some help.

The situation is the following. I have added two icons to my dock: Internet Explorer and Photoshop. Under the default theme, these two application have custom images. What I want to see is the application's regular icons.

Problem is, I don't find any way in the Object Dock user interface that allows me to get rid of the theme's icon. "Reset image" in the dock item property dialog doesn't work. "Change image" and selecting the application's executable doesn't work. I cannot find an interface to edit the theme's icon set.

The only choice that I see is to override the theme's image with an image that looks the the same as the icon. However, I want to do this *only* if I find a higher resolution version of the application's icon.

Any idea or suggestion is appreciated.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
If I understand you correctly, you just want an image of the "Blue E" and an image of a "Blue Feather", the default images for those products. You can find these images in the ObjectDock Galleries of WinCustomize. Below are some I found.

Explorer
Photoshop

If you don't find what you are looking for, try the Misc. Icons gallery.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
"Change image" and selecting the application's executable doesn't work.


That's always worked for me.
Once changed - save the theme - I always use a different name so to mess up defaults.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks for the suggestion.

I think I need to explain myself better.

What I meant by "I want to do this *only* if I find a higher resolution version of the application's icon" is that if I find an image that looks exactly than the icon, but in higher resolution.

Example: the Firefox icon in the .exe compared to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Firefox-logo.png

In other words, if I use another image, it is because it looks exaclty like the application's icon. I am not looking for a "stylish" version of the e and feather. So pretty much, I want to default to the application's logo and icon.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
That's always worked for me.
Once changed - save the theme - I always use a different name so to mess up defaults.


I am not sure how that works for you (I just tried it), since the image is mapped to the executable itself, not the dock item's name.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
From OD config, click My docks button, select dock that is using custom icons, remove it. Then Create new dock, this new dock will not have a theme attached to it so when you drag IE and Photoshop onto it the default icons will be used.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I was able to get the result I expected. This is how I did it:

• Look for the default theme file in the ObjectDock installation directory (default.ini).

• Open it in an editor.

• Look for the Programs and Classes sections.

• Delete all entries.

• Save.

• In ObjectDock, load the edited default theme applying all settings. This is going to destroy your current dock configuration since the config file also defines the icon on the dock.

• Reconfigure the dock.

IMO this was a bit of a hack, and not something that a 'regular' user would do. It would be nice if ObjectDock provided a nice interface for defining icon images as a listing besides the current, per-icon, interface.