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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.
-