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CHAPTER 5 Setting Policies and Customizing VMware ACE
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Customizing the VMware ACE Interface
You may customize several aspects of the VMware ACE user interface, including the
text that appears in the title bar and the way removable devices are represented in the
interface.
You save these customizations in a text file and identify that text file, called the skin
file, by adding a line to the preferences.ini file in the project folder.
Creating and Specifying the Skin File
Each line in the skin file has the following form:
parameter = "value"
To comment out a line in the skin file, begin the line with the # sign.
The parameters, acceptable values and defaults are listed in tables in this section.
Save the skin file with any filename you wish. Save the skin file in the Project
Resources folder under the project folder for the project to which it applies.
1. Use a text editor to open the preferences.ini file in the project folder and
add the following line:
vmplayer.skin = "<filename>"
If the skin file is not in the project folder, specify the full path to the file.
2. Save preferences.ini.
Customizing the VMware ACE Icons
VMware ACE has separate large and small application icons. The large icon is used in
the application switching interface (visible when you press Alt-Tab). The size of the
large icon is usually 32x32 pixels, but VMware ACE uses whatever size is specified in
the system preference for icon size. The small (16x16) icon is used in the VMware ACE
title bar and on the Windows taskbar button for VMware ACE.
The icons used for these purposes must be in .ico format and are specified by the
following options in the skin file:
player.iconSmall = "<filename>"
player.iconLarge = "<filename>"
One .ico file can contain multiple icons of different sizes. You can specify the same
.ico file for player.iconSmall and player.iconLarge. VMware ACE
extracts the icon of the appropriate size for each use.