Tango XP Shell Patcher

[vertigosity]

The Tango Shell Patcher is a mostly self-explanatory graphical wizard designed to make integrating the Tango icon set into your system files as easy as installing any other piece of software. Likewise, it includes a reloader to re-Tangofy your system files if necessary, and an uninstaller to restore them to their original state. It is designed to work on all language versions and editions of Windows XP and Server 2003. 64-bit versions of Windows are NOT supported. If you are experiencing trouble with it, or just want to want to learn some useful tips and tricks, visit the website at http://tango.benpbrown.com/?page=faq

It currently includes implementations of the Tango icon theme, the Tangerine icon theme developed by the Ubuntu art team, Gnome-Icon-Theme2 and NLD10's Industrial-Icon-Theme, and various pieces of artwork created by myself and culled from various sources to round it out in places.

As this is Aqua-Soft, your feedback, good or bad, will make this beast all the better. Many thanks to those who've volunteered opinions, chances are you either helped development along, or incremented by one my ego counter There are some icons that are not patched. I'm not going to throw together some random pixmap just to satisfy the look; I'd like to try to stay at least mostly metaphorically correct to the ideas of the original icon creators, the Gnome HIG, and so forth. Many things in Windows will not have counterparts in any Free/OSS environment, and I'm both lazy and busy, and so they will more than likely not be added to the patcher anytime soon.

Last update (2007/03/16): Various theme updates, support for a few more NT5.1/5.2 editions, and a few bugfixes that were just sitting around waiting to be released. Nothing particularly new or interesting.

Documentation/FAQ, developer stuff, extras, application skin database, in addition to typical download/screenshot:

tango.benpbrown.com (thanks to bobp!)

Just a screenshot and download: DeviantArt

Source SVGs, PNGs, ICOs, and MNGs are available at http://tango.benpbrown.com/?page=dev&dev=source.

[The Cereal Mouse]

Sweet... I'm kinda tired of Mac ports... and honestly sick of all those fugly Vista themes, so you sir just made my day

[Inplode]

ive been useing this patcher since the first release! A+ work !

[tehloxely]

Here's the production thread for those who want to know what's going on with the project:

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=423122

[Sci-Fi]

It looks nice. Might give it a try

[evilmnky204]

Sweet, finally left the simple .BAT conversions and went for a full-on shellpack

Great work, I've loved the Tango icons for a while, and Mac Ports are getting boring/annoying.

[vertigosity]

Here's the production thread for those who want to know what's going on with the project:

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=423122

Aaaah, the memories...

I'm consideirng this thread here to be as much "production" as the thread on NW, it just doesn't have a history yet

[tehloxely]

Aaaah, the memories...

I'm consideirng this thread here to be as much "production" as the thread on NW, it just doesn't have a history yet

Just in case people have some questions or want to look back on things

[Sci-Fi]

Can someone please post few more screenshots of this tango? I saw few on the website but wanted to see few more.

Thanks

[vertigosity]

Can someone please post few more screenshots of this tango? I saw few on the website but wanted to see few more.

Thanks

What kind of screenshot?

[tehloxely]

Can someone please post few more screenshots of this tango? I saw few on the website but wanted to see few more.

Thanks

Those screenshots are perfect. What else do you want to see?

[Sci-Fi]

lol OKKKKKK! you dont have to post any screenshot

[Sci-Fi]

Ok, i installed it. There is a little problem though! I get a window saying explorer.exe caused an error and has to be closed. I went to Event Viewer and got this "Faulting application explorer.exe, version 6.0.2900.2180, faulting module kernel32.dll, version 5.1.2600.2945, fault address 0x00012a5b." Any idea why this is happening?

Thanks.

[Sci-Fi]

A N Y O N E???? damn, i really liked this patcher. icons are great but i keep getting that error. erm! WAITING FOR A REPLY

[vertigosity]

That's not quite what I'd call a "little" problem. And yes, I got your mail, and the thread notification at the same time. Silliness all around!

[bobp]

Neowin topic is the production topic IMO but this could sure as hell turn into one too.

In case darkt.net goes down (1GB bandwidth) I have a vertigosity sanctioned entire-site-mirror.

http://vertigosity.benpbrown.com

http://tango.benpbrown.com

[shmengie]

so, i got 2 files that won't patch, as seen in the attachment (taken after a manual reload). what can i do?

edit: oh...wxp sp2, all updates applied.

[Maker]

i think they should remove the thumbnail perview folder icon all together i hate that icons its so stupid.

[vertigosity]

so, i got 2 files that won't patch, as seen in the attachment (taken after a manual reload). what can i do?

Mmmh... that probably means that resource hacker isn't running on your kernel binaries, but I could be wrong. Can you send me the output in the patcher's "logs" folder for those files?

i think they should remove the thumbnail perview folder icon all together i hate that icons its so stupid.

Is that a complaint about my replacements, or the concept in XP that they mimic?

[shmengie]

Mmmh... that probably means that resource hacker isn't running on your kernel binaries, but I could be wrong. Can you send me the output in the patcher's "logs" folder for those files?

LOL it's just like taking your car to the mechanic's...for some reason, after maybe 8-10 tries, those 2 files are now patched correctly. just a ghost in the machine, i guess. anyways...

other than that little hurdle, i really dig this. thx!

[vertigosity]

Mmmh. It would be nice to figure it out, but oh well. There's a slightly newer version out, and I did tweak the code slightly, so maybe I've already fixed it

[shmengie]

hi. i'd like to tell you all about a problem i just had with super tango patcher and how i resolved it:

i just installed the latest round of ms patches and rebooted. after rebooting, i got the tango reloader message that 3 of my files were updated and that i needed to reboot, which i did. yikes! i got three corrupted/missing file messages while booting: shell32, lsass and msgina. i couldn't boot using safe mode or last know good config. so, i busted out my trusty boot cd (mini pe xt, based on bart's pe).

using this boot cd, i browsed to c:windowssystem32 and determined that in fact only shell32.dll had been modified and now had a byte count of 0 (zero).

i then browsed to c:windowssuper tango patcherbackup and copied the backed up shell32.dll from there to both c:windowssystem32 and c:windowssystem32dllcache. i then rebooted and the whole thing with reloader-then-bad/missing-files happened all over again! ****!!!

so, again, i booted with my boot cd and copied the backed up shell32.dll file to those two location. this time when i rebooted, i went straight to safe mode and uninstalled tango patcher. i then rebooted and rebooted. xp came up perfectly. i was then able to reinstall tango patcher with no problems and all is great.

moral of the story?: any decent modder has a good boot cd. hopes this helps someone...

[nightcrawler1089]

Smart man, shmengie .

-NC

[shmengie]

Smart man, shmengie .

-NC

finally, someone agrees with me!