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[About This]Elementary 1.5

Simple, clean Rainmeter skins. Elementary currently includes 10 skins

! An analo" clock

! #ate skin $%ri"inal and &European& 'ariants(

! Time skin $%ri"inal and A)*+) 'ariants(

! eather $-elsius and ahrenheit 'ariants(

! System $/inear and stacked 'ariants(

! -hronopha"e $ornamental time!trackin" skin(

[/icense normation]This 2ork is licensed under the -reati'e -ommons Attribution 3on!-ommercail Share!

Alike 4.0

http**creati'ecommons.or"*licenses*by!nc!sa*4.0*

eel ree to modiy and redistribute these skins, on the condition that you link back to

me, dont make any money o o it, and use this same license.

[6o2 to -ustomi7e These Skins ! Settin"s.t8t] Elementarys settin"s*user preerences are in the ile

&...\Skins\Elementary\@Resources\Settings.txt&9 open this ile in any te8t editor to

chan"e your preerences. :ou can also ri"ht click and Elementary skin, and in the

conte8t menu select &Elementary ; Settin"s.ini& to

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-T:,STATE pair, a -T:,-%3TR: pair, a 4 or F lettter airport code, or a latitude and

lon"itude $/AT,/%3(. hat you put here must be R/ riendly, so either lea'e

out*replace the spaces, or encode your location and use the encoded 'alue $i.e. &3e2

:ork, 3e2 :ork& becomes &3e2GB0:orkGB-GB03e2GB0:ork&(.

language

...the t2o letter S% H4I!1 code or your preerred lan"ua"e. /an"ua"es currentlyincluded are

En"lish $en, the deault(

Jerman*#eutsch $de(

Spanish*EspaKol $es(

rench*ranLais $fr(

#utch*3ederlands $nl(

Tama7i"ht* $ber(+ortu"uese*portu"uMs $pt(

See the ne8t section $&-reatin" your o2n Translation ile&( or instructions on translatin"

the skins to 2hate'er lan"ua"e you 2ould like.

N3ote that the deault onts mi"ht not support the special characters or some lan"ua"es! in such cases you 2ill need to chan"e the ont to one that includes the correct

characters. $or instance, &Ebrima& or Tama7i"ht( Also, bet2een the 2ay that the

eather nder"round eed deli'ers inormation and the 2ay that coded the skins,

some phrases do not translate correctly in other lan"ua"es $the order is in'erted(. ll

ha'e to think about a 2ay to i8 this... but in the meantime, the translators did the best

they could.

drive

...should be the letter o the hard dri'e you 2ish to monitor 2ith the system skin, "i'en

2ithout the && or &O& characters.hour

...is the ormat code or the 6our in the time skins. or 1B hour ormat, use &%#I&9 or BF

hour ormat, use &%#H&. To add leadin" 7eros, remo'e the &P& si"n $i.e., G instead o

GP 2ill "i'e you &0C& instead o &C&(.

[-reatin" :our %2n Translation ile ! template.t8t] Elementary does not ha'e a translation ile already included or your lan"ua"e, it is

easy to make your o2n. irst, open the ile

&...OSkinsOElementaryOQResourcesO/an"au"esOtemplate.t8t& in indo2s 3otepad or

another plain te8t editor. The ile should say &9 /A3JAJE SDSTTT%3S& at thetop and ha'e a lists o En"lish 2ords ollo2ed by &>& si"ns. Simply put, 2hate'er 2ord

you ill in ater the &>& si"n 2ill replace the En"lish 2ord in the skin. So ust ill in the list,

puttin" the 2ord in your lan"ua"e ater the &>&. $or e8amples, you can look at the other

iles in the &...OQResourcesO/an"ua"esO& older.(

hen youre done, simply sa'e the ile 2ith a ne2 name $&Sa'e as...&(. :ou can call

the ile 2hate'er you 2ant, but keep it in the &...OQResourcesO/an"ua"esO& older. Then,

in the Settin"s.t8t ile, simply chan"e the &lan"au"e& 'alue to 2hate'er you named your

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ne2 translations ile. $ you named your ile &)y/an"ua"e.t8t&, in Settin"s.t8t the

=ey>?alue 2ould be &lan"ua"e>)y/an"ua"e&.(

Thats it you 2ould like your ne2 translations ile included in the Elementary skin

packa"e, ust contact me on #e'iantArt or by email $see belo2(.

N)any thanks to the olks 2ho ha'e pro'ided translations so artimpieee http**timpieee.de'iantart.com* #utch

)athieuStn" http**mathieustn".de'iantart.com* rench

Dlu"i http**blu"i.de'iantart.com* Spanish

Uack#) http**ackdm.de'iantart.com* Jerman

:aBsine http**yaBsine.de'iantart.com* Tama7i"ht * Derber

2m2401 V +ortu"uese

[6elpul /inks @ Tools]6ere are some links to helpul resources i you are ne2 to settin"s like those described

abo'e

Rainmeter Documentation on Fonts:

http**rainmeter.net*Rain-)S*V)etersWonts

Rainmeter Documentation on Colors:

http**rainmeter.net*Rain-)S*V)etersW-olor-odes

nline !R" ncoder$Decoder:

http**meyer2eb.com*eric*tools*dencoder*

Rainfont !tility by &'orley:

http**rainmeter.net*orum*'ie2topic.phpV>1C@t>H104

"ist of I& ()*+, langauge codes:

https**en.2ikipedia.or"*2iki*/istWoWS%WH4I!1Wcodes

[-ontact the Author]eel ree to contact me i you ha'e

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! Added &/an"ua"es& older and &lan"ua"e& 'ariable in Settin"s.t8t

$iles or En"lish, rench, Jerman, #utch, Tama7i"ht, +ortu"uese, and Spanish9 and a

template(

! 3e2 .rmskin ormat

*$2($23,, ./ersion ,040)

! Skin .ini iles re'ised to use )eter Styles! eather translations are no2 case insensiti'e

! -lickin" &'ia eather.com& no2 links you to the location 2hich you set in Settin"s.t8t,

not a link parsed rom the current conditions eed.

*$,5$23,, ./ersion ,0402

! T2eaked 2eather substitution strin"s $&chance o a& beore &chance o&(

! Ad'anced day o 2eek number in -hronopha"e skin by 1 $Sunday is no2 day 1, not

day 0(

! Added lan"ua"e subs or ind direction

! i8ed current condtions tooltip in eeatherWc.ini to display 2ind speed it

=ilometers*hour

! n Readme.ini dummy skin, chan"ed #eacit'ate-oni" to Rainmeter#eacti'ate-oni"

so it 2ill 2ork 2ith Rainmeter 'ersions belo2 B.1

! pdated skin metadata to comply 2ith Rainmeter B.1 chan"es

! All .ini iles are no2 #%S*indo2s A3S character encoded

-$,,$23,, ./ersion ,040,

! -han"es 2eather X)/ source to eather nder"round

! Split ?ariables and Translations into t2o separate iles

! Added 2eather skin lan"ua"e subs

! Added hour ormat 'ariable

! ?ariables.inc is no2 Settin"s.t8t

5$22$23,, ./ersion ,04! -han"e 2eather 8ml source to Joo"le

! pdated ?ariables.inc $remo'ed annotations, added &-urrently& and &scalar& 'ariables,

added 'ariables or Joo"le 2eather skins(

! -orrected an error in the main #ate skin

! Remo'ed old'ersion o #ate skin, and added ne2 #ate 'ariant 2ith the date beore

the month

! -entury Jothic ont ile is no lon"er included in Elementarys .rmskin packa"e, or le"al

reasons

4$,-$23,, ./ersion ,0)

! -han"ed the ali"nment o the irst strin" in the time and date skins ! the hour and

2eekday are no2 ali"ned ri"ht instead o let

! Added an A)*+) 'ariant o the time*clock skin

! n the 2eather skin, chan"ed the orecast ont rom uturist to -entury Jothic

$more compact and readable(

)$,($23,, ./ersion ,02

! Tidied up code considerably

! re!si7ed #ate skin te8t based on +hi*"olden ratio, like the time skin 2as already

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! Added a 2eather skin -lick the 2ord &currently& to s2itch 'ie2s and sho2 a three!day

orecast

! Altered system skins sli"htly

! Added a section o lan"ua"e substitutions to the ?ariables.inc ile. :ou should no2 be

able to set the days o 2eek and months to the e