I did a tutorial for his older version so I though it might be the time to do a new one for this version.
Preliminary stuff to do
1. Turn off your wallpaper. To do this, right-click on the desktop,
then click Properties. Go to the Desktop tab, and under the wallpaper
menu, highlight "None." Then press "OK."
2. If you don't want icons on your desktop, right-click on the desktop
again, this time choosing "Arrange Icons By" and uncheck "Show Desktop
Icons." This will make sure your desktop is clean.
3. Open your C:\ drive and create a new folder called "Desk". Right now the directory should read "C:\Desk".
(Actually, you can put it anywhere, this is just an example.)
4. Go in the readme file and find out how to stop the security popups.
(This is the essential step many people don't do. The entire desktop won't work if you don't do this step.)
Installing
1. Unzip ss_desktop_v2.zip
(or whatever version you downloaded) to the C:\Desk folder
2. Right-click on the desktop, click Properties, and click the Desktop
tab again. This time, push the "Customize Desktop" button. Click the
"Web" tab, then the "New" button.
3. Click "Browse," then navigate to "C:\Desk\desktop.htm"
(Or whever you put it.)
4. Make sure the box next to the file path is checked, then click "OK" till you're back to your desktop.
This is what you should see for now
5. Now you need to maximize the box. To do so, mouseover the part that
is activedesktop till you get the toolbar at the top, and then maximize
it as you would with any window.
This what you should see now
Now, the basic part of this is pretty much done. You can change the
wallpaper if you want by clicking on the "Wallpaper" button (middle
left). Just browse till the one you want and than click "Set Wallpaper"
Editing
Just so you know, I have absolutely 0 knowledge of html / xml or
anything like this. But this is a very easy thing to play with. Sumo
has done his best to keep it as simple as possible so pretty much
anyone should be able to edit it the way he want. Just make sure you
make a backup of the last working files you had so that if you screw
up, you can always go back to those.
When you do a change, and you see how it looks on your desktop, just
save the file and then go back to your desktop. Then you just have to
press F5 to refresh it (if it’s long sometimes, it’s because of the
weather thingy. It’s a nice feature but it can get annoying since
sometimes, the page where it gets it data from is quite slow.
Personally, I deleted that to make my desktop refresh faster)
Menu Editing
To edit the menus and the position of the things on the screen, you need to open the xml file named "Editme"
It will look like this
First thing you will want to do is to change all the links in there to fit you computer.
Just look around to find each menu (My computer – Network – Programs –
Games). Under the one you want, edit the link sumo was using to those
you want. On each line, you have the link and the name that will show
on your desktop. You can add or remove as many lines has you want.
If you want to remove a menu, just delete it from where it start to where it end.
Like if you want to remove the Network menu, you need to delete from:
<menu name="network">
<title>Network</title>
<font class="bullet">• </font> <folder path="//network_computer1"> Net Comp 1 </folder><br/>
<font class="bullet">• </font> <folder path="//network_computer2"> Net Comp 2 </folder><br/>
<font class="bullet">• </font> <folder path="//network_computer3"> Net Comp 3 </folder><br/>
</menu>
Each menu start with <menu name=”menunamegoeshere”>
To </menu>
Just do the opposite if you want to add one.
If you want to add a menu at a different place on your desktop, you
will have to play with those commands too. (The number are just too
determine the position)
<section right="400" bottom="200">
</section>
Just notice the whole menu on the left is build under one
<section> while the calendar and the notepad are in another one.
Personally, I split every menu in a <section> so that I can move
them around the screen to where I want.
Color Editing
To edit the color, you will need to open the other Editme file. This is
where you will have to edit to change the color of the things. The only
color that is not in there is the one for the black line you see
separating each menu. To edit this color, you need to go back to the
other editme file.
You will find those 3 lines between each menu:
<dot width="100%" height="5" color="transparent"/>
<dot width="100%" height="3" color="#000000"/>
<dot width="100%" height="3" color="transparent"/>
Just change the middle one value to change the color of the line
Like you would use this for a white line:
<dot width="100%" height="3" color="rgb(255,255,255)"/>
Now for the other colors
I’ll just right down basicly what each value is linked too
- TD: The weather color
- a:link, a:visited, a:active: The programs’s name color, the recycle and the wallpaper color
- textarea: The color of the notepad
- othercolor: The color of the bracket [ ]
- bullet: The color of the dots before each program’s name.
- title: The menus names color
Then you have the calendar_ stuff and the clock_ stuff. Those are pretty self explanatory.
Anyway, this is all I could thing of for now. If you have questions or if something is not clear, just ask.
And here are exemple of desktop I built so far:
First one
Modified version of the first one
Second one
Third one
New one