A Compact Theme for Spaz

I gave up on Gwib­ber a while ago–it was just too buggy for me to stand using on a day-to-day basis. In my search for an open source Twit­ter client, I found Spaz. While it’s based on Adobe Air, it’s not too bad.

I found the default theme a bit too big, though. And while I deeply appre­ci­ated the wickedly com­pact spaz-mini theme, I found it, sur­pris­ingly, too small for me. I fol­low a lot of peo­ple and want to see the names and pic­tures large so I can browse through the feed quickly.

So I made a few edits to the small theme and came up with sorta-small, a com­pact theme for Spaz, fea­tur­ing larger pic­tures and names as well as a embiggened text entry field, while main­tain­ing the over­all com­pact feel of the original.

As far as I know, the only way to install the theme is to extract the tar.gz to a folder and drop that in /opt/Spaz/share/themes (you’ll need to be root to do so). For you copy and paste junkies:

wget http://jaket.is-a-geek.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/sorta-small.tar.gz
tar xfvz sorta-small.tar.gz
sudo cp sorta-small /opt/Spaz/share/themes/ -R

(There’s prob­a­bly a dif­fer­ent way to do this on Win­dows & Mac. I have no idea what that is, but if you’re in to that sort of thing, I’m sure you can fig­ure it out).

Then restart Spaz and select it in the Interface->theme preferences.

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