Hallo folks. I'm working on a modified version of K-Meleon that will serve as the framework for an auto-run CD browser/installer for use on TheOpenCD. It's been a pleasure working with KMeleon. There are only a couple more outstanding issues to deal with on the KMeleon side, and then we can get on with writing the installer content.

1) The status bar doesn't stay disabled. I think this is a bug; if my reading of the KMeleon source code is right, it should remember not to display the status bar after you've disabled it. In the meantime, I've come up with a workaround: I added OnStartup { id(ID_VIEW_STATUS_BAR) } to macros.cfg so that the status bar disappears each time the browser starts. I'm fine with this workaround, but thought you might like a bug report.

2) I'd like to modify the title bar. Specifically, I want to replace the lizard icon in the title bar with another icon, and I want to remove the text (K-Meleon) from the title bar. I''m not the only one who'd like to be able to customize these; see this thread.

Regarding the icon, I've attempted replacing the skins\default\main.ico with another icon file; however, this had no effect. I also tried putting a file "main.ico" in my profile dir, but that didn't work either. Is there some preference I need to set somewhere in order for this to work?

As for the title bar text, I have no idea where I might be able to alter that. Will this require re-compiling k-meleon.exe? I hope not . . .

If you'd like to see what we've come up with thus far, check out this thread on our forum.

Selanit wrote:
> I want to
> replace the lizard icon in the title bar with another icon,
> I've attempted replacing the
> skins\default\main.ico with another icon file; however, this
> had no effect. I also tried putting a file "main.ico" in my
> profile dir, but that didn't work either. Is there some
> preference I need to set somewhere in order for this to work?

Both solution work for me (in skin dir, and in profile dir).
I wonder if it fails because you've modified KM (no reliance on absolute path), and that it can't find the icon file?

Are you sure that your replacement icon is a valid icon file? Try with a copy of the hotlist icon.

Okay, I tried using the hotlist icon as main.ico -- and it worked! I guess my ico file was made no sense to K-Meleon even though Windows understood it. I was using a 32x32 256-color Windows bitmap with a .ico extension. This works for most purposes.

I have now fixed gotten myself a real icon file that our main programmer came up with. So that works. Thanks for the advice!

So that just leaves the title bar text (K-Meleon) to customize, and that'll solve all the UI issues.

I discovered today that K-Meleon depends on some registry keys to execute properly; but since we've already got another app which launches K-Meleon, we can solve that problem by having our launcher app figure out the appropriate keys and put them in place.

Well, everything is working now. As suggested here, I used ResHack to modify the K-Meleon executable. I discovered that the parentheses around the word are not modifieable by ResHack, but the text they contain is. So now it says "TheOpenCD" instead.

A screenshot:



That wraps up all of the UI issues for the K-Meleon framework. All we need to do now is create the webpages and attend to some bugs in our launcher app. Thanks for the help, people!

Bah, screwed up the screenshot tags there. Oh well. Clickable URL:

http://theopencd.sunsite.dk/contrib/Selanit/OpenCD-Kmeleon.gif