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README: For K-Meleon's "Netscape Modern" for v0.9 and above.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

How to change skins.
How to change enclosed background.
#1: My K-Meleon Button.
#2: Email Button.
#3: Toolbar "Helper" icons.
#3a: Search from URL address field using Google.
#3b: Google News.
#3c: Open Layer/Layer Closed.

Please read for file information, pertinent details, and thank yous.
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How to change skins:

* Extract the files into "C:\Program Files\K-Meleon\skins\NetscapeModern" (You'll have to more than likely make the folder when unzipping).
* Open K-Meleon, go to Edit>Preferences>Display>Skin and select a skin from the list.
* Select "Show Toolbar Background". Click OK.
* Exit K-Meleon and loader if used. You will restart K-Meleon with the new skin.

How to change enclosed background:

This theme comes with two backgrounds, "Brushed-Silver" and "Walnut". The default is "Brushed Silver". Walnut is named "Back2.bmp". To switch backgrounds simply use your file manager to go into C:\Program Files\K-Meleon\Skins\NetscapeModern and change the name of "back.bmp" to "backup.bmp" and "back2.bmp" to "back.bmp", start K-Meleon and it will have the Walnut background. I do recommend, however, that if you make changes to your background skins that you make appropriate changes to your Window's colour scheme or this won't look "right".

You'll notice a lot of buttons in with this theme. I'm enclosing the macros here along with simple directions to make them operational. :o)
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#1: MY K-MELEON BUTTON:

Looking along the iconbar you'll notice several additions. A few of these will require macros. Netscape has the "My Netscape" button. While I realise that you can reach the K-Meleon homepage from the drop-down menu, to me it made it more "authentitic" to hook up that button like Netscape. IF YOU DON'T WANT THE BUTTON: Open "Edit/Preferences/Configs/Toolbars" and scroll down until you find "My K-Kmeleon". Starting in front of that until the "}" place these "#" in a descending column on the left. It'll look like this to better show you:

#   My K-Meleon{
#      macros(MyKMeleon)
#      My K-Meleon
#      toolhot.bmp[10]
#      toolcold.bmp[10]
#      tooldead.bmp[10]
#   }

Press "Ok" and a box will come up asking you if you'd like to save your changes. Press "Yes" and restart K-Meleon and the button will be gone. ;o) IF, however, you'd like that button to remain and to work, go to "Edit/Preferences/Configs/Macros" and scroll all the way to the bottom. Click in the box and press "enter" on the keyboard to make an extra space and copy/paste the following:

MyKMeleon {
   menu=My K-Meleom
   open("http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/");
}

Again, press "Ok", a box will come up asking you to save, press "Yes", restart K-Meleon, and when you press that button it will take you to the homepage! :o)

Congratulations! You've just done your first macro if you've never done one before! Now, see how EASY it is to configure K-Meleon? And all this time you thought it was HARD! tsk, tsk!
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#2: EMAIL BUTTON:

Frequent question on the forum: "How do I hook up my email programme to work with K-Meleon?" Tada! I'm going to show you! Now this one LOOKS hard but it really isn't. And yes---this is the next button beside the "My K-Meleon" button. If you don't want it, go to "Edit/Preferences/Configs/Toolbars" and search for "Mail" in the lineup and carry out the instructions found in the "My K-Meleon Button" example. (I'm bound and determined that you'll read this file >wink<.) IF, however, you'd like to make this button operational there are several things you must do: First, open your file manager (like Explorer, 2xExplorer, etc.) and look for the proper pathway and name of your email exe file. Write it down! Then go to "Edit/Preferences/Configs/Macros" and copy/paste the following---remembering to leave a space between this and your last macro:

exec_Mail {
menu=&Mail Client
exec("\"C:\\Program Files\\Folder\\name of programme.exe\"");
}

So let's say it's GoofyMail and made by Mickey company, okie? The pathway would look thus: ("\"C:\\Program Files\\Mickey\\GoofyMail.exe\""); provided it was actually in a subfolder by the name of "Mickey", etc. Pay VERY STRICT ATTENTION to this detail or this macro will not work! If you do though you'll see it's actually easier than you thought. :o)

Now, let's be able to call our email programme up with a keyboard shortcut as well, shall we? Let's go back into "Edit/Preferences/Configs/Accelerators" and at the bottom---remembering to leave a space once again---copy/paste in the following:

%ifplugin macros
CTRL M = macros(exec_Mail)
%endif

Remember to save, but we're still not done so don't restart K-Meleon just yet. What this shortcut allows you to do is press Ctrl+M and it'll open your email programme. Neat!

Now some people like to also call up their email client from the drop-down menubar. I have mine in "File" between "Save As" and "Print". This is what you copy/paste there:

 - 
%ifplugin macros
   macros(exec_Mail);
 %endif

Remember that little "-" if you want a seperate line to set it off between the "Save As" and the "Print". In other words, make sure there's one before and after this shortcut. And NOW save all of your work, exit K-Meleon, restart, and try out your shortcuts and button to see if they work. If not, re-check everything again CAREFULLY. Usually it's just something as simple as the pathway to your email programme being off by a letter. If it DID work, congratulations! You've made a mini-browser suite and your life a whole lot easier! :o)
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#3: TOOLBAR "HELPER" ICONS:

#3a: SEARCH FROM URL ADDRESS FIELD USING GOOGLE:

I've removed the "Search" icon from the iconbar as Netscape doesn't have one---but it does have one beside the URL bar, or at least the modern one does, like Mozilla/FB. So I've added the search there. Type in a word in the URL bar, press the "Flashlight" icon and this will search Google. Again, if you do NOT wish to have this icon the procedure for removal is covered in "MY K-MELEON BUTTON" above. If you choose to use it go to "Macros" (by now you should know where it's located? "Edit/Preferences/Configs/Macros") and copy/paste the following macro---remembering to leave a space from your last macro:

search_button {
    $google = "http://www.google.com/search?q=";
    $oldclip = getclipboard();
    id(ID_SELECT_URL);
    id(ID_EDIT_COPY);
    $query = getclipboard();
    setclipboard($oldclip);
    open($google . $query);
}

Save this, restart K-Meleon, and the search button will work. Give it a try! :o)

(The standard iconbar "Search" is still located on the menubar under "Go" and will bring up a search box FYI.)
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#3b: GOOGLE NEWS:

Yes, that's what the "Globe" is in this theme. I saw it when going through the jar files of the "Classic Theme"---where I got some of these icons---and I thought, "Looks really nice! What could I use that for?" Now while I myself don't keep up much on the news I thought it would be a great addition. :o) If you've been reading through this Readme/Help File then you'll know how to disable it as discussed in #1: "MY K-MELEON BUTTON". If you wish to use it, however, go into macros and paste the following:

open_News {
   menu=Google News
   open("http://news.google.com/");
}

Of course, by now I suspect that you're getting pretty good at these macros so you'd know how to change that URL to open any other News Service, or website that you'd like. Maybe ebay? If you DO change it, make sure that you go into "Toolbars" and change the "Display Name" line to read appropriately. The "Display Name" would be "Google News" before "toolbars.bmp3".
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#3c: LAYER OPEN/LAYER CLOSED:

This HAS to be one of THE MOST asked questions on the forum when it comes to adding buttons I think! :o) "How can I add a simple button to open and close my 'tabs'?" We'll handle them both together since I doubt anyone will want to add one without the other. Disabling these is done the same way as any toolbar button as the example discussed in #1: "MY K-MELEON BUTTON". If you wish to keep and use these---and trust me, they are HANDY!---copy/paste the following into macros, remembering to leave a space before your last macro added:

close_layer {
      %ifplugin layers
      plugin(layers,Close)
      %endif
}

open_layer {
      %ifplugin layers
      plugin(layers,Open)
      %endif
}

Save your changes/additions, restart K-Meleon, and your new "Tab" buttons should work. Hey! Okie, so they're layers. Sue me! I come from a long line of tabbed browsers. ;o) I even changed them in User.js by adding this setting to read "Tabs": user_pref("kmeleon.plugins.layers.title", "Tabs:"); MAKE SURE you copy the entire line from "user" to ";" and go to: "Edit/Preferences/Settings/User.js" and place it there. ;o) And now once you restart K-Meleon you'll have a "tabbed" browser and no one will know the difference but YOU and other K-Meleon users. --ahem!--
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PLEASE READ FOR FILE INFOMATION, PERTINENT DETAILS, AND THANK YOUS:

Base iconbar icons and some menu icons from the skin "Netscape 4.x by Scratch" with alterations by me (Eyes-Only/L'Peau-Rouge) and found at: http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Other icons indirectly from Netscape by AOL via "Classic Theme" of Mozilla Foundation at: http://www.mozilla.org/
"Brushed-Silver" originally from Lynchknot's many assorted themes for Mozilla Firebird and found at: http://home.comcast.net/~lynchknot/phoenix.html
"Walnut" originally from Alfred Kayser's Mozilla, Mozilla Firebird and Thunderbird's "Walnut Theme" and found at: http://www.geocities.com/alfredkayser/mozilla/themes.htm
Throbber is a variation by Stephen Bishop for K-Meleon and may be found at: http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Any other icons not attributed to a source may have been made by me (Eyes-Only/L'Peau-Rouge). Heck if I know---I have a bad memory.

K-Meleon Homepage: http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Eyes-Only Homepage (where I'm known as "jimmymac"): http://eyesonly.no-ip.info/jimmymac/ Here you can learn more about me, my interests and hobbies, artwork, physical illnesses, and a whole lot more. :o)
My email: LeSauvage@eyesonly.no-ip.info (Down on Sundays between 21:00hrs to 21:30hrs EST for system maintenance). I will TRY to answer all questions but it's best to ask on the K-Meleon Homepage being VERY specific as to what the problem is and the macro, etc, with which you are working. I have a serious memory problem and this is NOT a joke.

FOR THANKS:

I would like to thank the Great Spirit for giving me each day of Life and for the gift of my grandson, Isaac James, who has inspired me to continue living despite great pain and sickness.

I would like to thank Aaron, Lynchknot and Mr. Kayser, who have been a great inspiration to me in my theming---even if it wasn't browsers for which I themed. They are not only the Greatest Masters in their fields, but true artists in every sense of the word. Thank you gentlemen!

I would like to thank the hard-working Devs and beta-testers who continue to put out K-Meleon, which in my humble opinion, is the very best browser in the field today. It is through your diligence, continued work and patience that you have kept this project not only alive---BUT THRIVING! And all of you know who you are, from the greatest to the smallest, as you ALL play a priceless part.

To ALL of you who encouraged me to finish this: THANKS! It's been fun! I just wished I could've been quicker for YOU!

And last, but not least, to Teeb: A fellow friend who likewise knows the full joy of being a grandparent. Thanks for being a friend. :o)


(This theme is not copyrighted or anything. Have a go at it people and change it in ways unimaginable! That's the whole fun of learning how to theme! Have fun---Life is too short to quibble over who made what. In 100 years who's going to give a rat's behind anyway?)