Create your own Google Talk Theme using CSS | 8 Comments
Posted in CSS on 17th April 2006, 8:17 pm by Stuart
Not so long ago Google Talk received an update which included theme support, now I don’t know about you, but in my humble opinion the default themes weren’t all that great. The good new is that the themes are created with CSS so this means that you can copy an existing theme and modify it to get something that is more to your taste.
To get started you need to copy an existing theme, so choose one as a starting point. Before you can do that you will need to create a directory called “chat” in the following location (Where [PROFILE NAME] is your changed to the name of your user profile, this is the same as the user your login to windows as):
C:\Documents and Settings\[PROFILE NAME]\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Talk\themes\user\Next copy the theme you wish to base yours on to here:
C:\Documents and Settings\[PROFILE NAME]\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Talk\themes\user\chat\Rename the chat theme folder you have just copied across to the name of your choice. This name will show up in the themes menu. Edit the themes CSS file ([ThemeName]\Contents\Resources\main.css) and then test your theme.
To get you started here’s a theme I made earlier called MuffinResearch. To use it just uppack the theme to this directory:
C:\Documents and Settings\[PROFILE NAME]\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Talk\themes\user\chat\As you are editing the themes all you have to do is re-select your theme in the drop-down to check the styles you have modified.
