Themes
User provided themes
Eleven
(Ijmm) | Theme
+ Icons (Ijmm)
KDE
Breeze (Andrain)
Oxygen
(Andrain)
Built-in themes
Main
Default PeaZip theme, meant for integration with modern Linux, macOS,
and Windows look&feel, either on light and dark mode desktop themes
Different
Similar to main theme but tweaked to improve
integration on macOS systems
Gray
Designed in Fluent-looking style for integration on modern Windows
systems, also fit for minimalist looking desktop themes
Ten
Meant to give the application's file manager / archive
manager GUI a
Windows 10 -like
look&feel
Additional themes
Bring to PeaZip's file manager / archive manager a retro look&feel
inspired to
classic Windows 9x and 2000 systems' style
Give the application GUI a look&feel similar to Windows XP file
explorer style
Meant to integrate the application file manager / archive manager in
environments
with Windows 7 -like look & feel and icons
Integrate the application to an enviroment with icons similar in look
and feel to Crystal, Crystal Clear, and Tango Icons themes; recommended
to blend with the appearance of file managers and file archivers
commonly found on retro Linux systems
Themes collections
theme-pack-2022
Contains all 14 available themes, including user-contributed ones
Variations
Based on other themes, and bringing custom colors
 Mocha
Warm colors theme, based on Ten theme icons.
Intermediate darkness color scheme meant for integrating with light and
dark UIs.
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 Graphite
Neutral, medium gray theme, same icon style of Ten theme.
Meant to integrate the application in dark, medium dark, and light
system themes, until a full featured dark mode is available.
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 Senape
Soft yellows color palette, uses same icons of Ten theme.
Intermediate darkness color scheme meant for integrating with light and
dark UIs.
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PeaZip file manager themes
customizes main program's archive manager / file manager GUI
appearance, colors,
and icons.
Alongside pre-set themes, custom and user-created themes can be
applied from Option > Theme selecting "Custom" in the Theme dropdown
menu and selecting a custom theme package i.e. xyz.theme.7z.
PeaZip 7+ version accepts as icon sources arbitrarily sized graphic
saved as 32 bit or 8 bit PNG with transparency.
Icons will be scaled at runtime to be rendered fitting system's icon
size (or approximate size that can be efficiently rendered), up to 10x
zoom - in example a small icon can be rendered ranging from 16px to
160px.
Themes currently embebbed in PeaZip application packages contains
graphic is saved as 32 bit PNG with transparence.
Folders 16 and 32 contains x3 zoomed icons (48 and 96 px)
Folders 48 and 96 contains non zoomed 48 and 96 px icons
Legacy themes available on Themes v1 directory on SourceForge can be
applied to PeaZip releases prior 7.0, and Themes v2 can be allied to
any version from 7.0 to 8.2.
Current Themes v3 revision is largely compatible with v2 revision, but
packs more options in the theme file, which can be parsed from newer
PeaZip releases, 8.3 onward.
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Appearance of
widgetset objects
rendered by the system are not affected by PeaZip's themes settings, as
PeaZip does not attempt to bypass native drawing methods, for
stability, security, and performances reasons.
This limitation apply to all platforms, please note the system-rendered
objects
varies in different platforms.
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PeaZip is fully functional in dark omde on Linux
and macOS systems.
Windows 10
Dark Mode colors are not passed from system to application: querying a
W10 system for UI colors currently get light mode colors in response
even when dark mode is active.
This implementation of dark theming is
unique to Windows 10.
As workaround it is possible to set an High
Contrast theme, which passes colors consistent with Dark Mode
UI appearance, until a complete API is made available to developers, or
W10 is
fixed in order to correctly pass real UI colors values to applications
when queried (as every other operating system does).
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PeaZip Theme
packages can be created (or saved for back-up) using
PeaZip, from
Options >
Theme > Create Theme from current settings, a theme package
xyz.theme.7z will be created
on the desktop; it is a standard 7z
archive (which is automatically extracted by PeaZip theme manager).
Please note that system
icons (i.e. on system's
context menu, and for associated
file types) are not affected by themes. On Microsoft Windows systems,
system's icons are
stored in \PeaZip\res\icons\ path and
can be edited with a suitable editor or replaced with custom icon
files; on Linux system's icons (in PNG format) are stored accordingly
the distribution and the desktop environment policies, i.e.
\opt\kde3\share\icons\ or \usr\share\icons\
Customizing PeaZip themes
To further customize themes, or to remove unwanted themes, “Manage
Themes” opens the path containing themes, that is located in user’s
application
data for installable versions or inside PeaZip’s folder for portable
versions.
Theme’s graphic can be edited with any graphic files editor capable of
working with 32 bit PNG with transparence, and
theme.txt can be edited as UTF-8 text.
Distributing PeaZip themes
Themes add-ons can be freely distributed as independent
packages, as long copyright/copyleft licenses for the graphic elements
used in the theme is respected.
If you are interested in contributing a theme for being distributed
with PeaZip please contact
me at the mail address on Online support
page.
The file note.readme (plain text) is inherited from the original theme,
please edit it with relevant information and credits about the new
theme if you plan to publicly release it.
Custom, user-provided icons, themes, graphic and other resources
can be found on PeaZip's Resources
folder on
SourceForge.
Synopsis: How to
customize
PeaZip's file manager GUI look and feel, icons, colors. How to blend
the application appearance with Windows and Linux visual syiles, adapt
to dark themed desktops. How to further personalize existing themes and
create and distrubute new themes.
Topics: Download themes
for PeaZip, how to customize application's GUI, how to create new
themes for PeaZip
PeaZip > Downloads
> Themes: customize PeaZip file manager GUI style
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