Google Talk Theme

Google Talk Theme

So today we are going to see how we can modify Google Talk to make it more exciting and make it more fun

After we have done GTalk would look like something like this

As we can see we have given a paper kind of look to our GTalk and created our own theme , So follow the steps and we are done

Step 1> Download and install Google Talk from here  

http://www.google.com/talk/  its free and very easy to use

Step 2 >Install it  , For our demonstration we would assume it to be installed in “C-DRIVE”

Step 3>Now the interesting part , Navigate to the following address in your system

%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Talk\themes\system\chat

Or just copy the address and past it in the address bar of your system and hit enter

Now we would get these folders like this

 

These are the default themes of GTalk , but we are not interested in them we want to create our own

Step 4> copy the classic folder and past it there in the same folder  (inside chat folder) and rename it to any name you want which would be name of your theme also

For now lets name it as “My Theme”

Step 5> Now double click My Theme , now we would get a folder called “Contents” , double click it and we would get another folder called “Resources” , double click this folder and we are in our working area

So the path looks like this

..My Theme\Contents\Resources\

Step 6> Inside this folder we would place out background image for example like this one

 

The name of this image is “paper.jpg”

Step 7>Now Some editing , open the “main.css” file in this folder with notepad

Inside this file locate the code

BODY {

  

  margin: 6px;

            

            }

Step 8> Now add the following code inside this segment like this

BODY {

  margin: 6px;

  

 background-image: url(“paper.jpg”);

            }

This line changes the background of our theme , also paper.jpg is the name of our image

That is it we have created our theme

Now go to GTalk , run it , and change the theme to “My Theme” by going to

Setting > Appearance > Chat theme >My Theme

So that is it

Happy creating your theme

Important > it you have knowledge of HTML and CSS then you can play more with your theme

Thank you