[WINDOWS] ⭐️ How to install custom icons and cursors + 300 icons/cursors!

@SheyCroix
@-Ryoto-
@V-O-I-D
@Coolest1234D

Hello! You all volunteered to test tutorials back in May, and after a long delay I could finally use your feedback on our new season of tutorials! :D

Please check the tutorials and videos above if you have Windows 10 or 7, and let me know how they go. All I'm interested in is if they work and are simple enough to follow.

@SheyCroix
@-Ryoto-
@V-O-I-D
@Coolest1234D

Hello! You all volunteered to test tutorials back in May, and after a long delay I could finally use your feedback on our new season of tutorials! :D

Please check the tutorials and videos above if you have Windows 10 or 7, and let me know how they go. All I'm interested in is if they work and are simple enough to follow.

@Shishio-kun I do not have windows 10 but took a look anyways since I already customised all my icons and stuff. Back then I did it the “fuck around and find out way”. My conclusion is, that there is a slight to no difference to windows 11 so it should also work there.
The tutorials are incredibly easy to follow to me and would have helped me a lot back then. For someone new to customising, it should also be no problem to follow. So, nice job you did there 👍

My anime folder uses anime logo, I haven't updated in a long time since the internet became easier to get, and now I just stream to watch
In this folder there are 500+ titles if I'm not mistaken


At that time there was a website that provided anime logo icons from the early 2000s to the latest season and updates every season (I forget when, if I'm not mistaken it was around 2016), then the website disappeared, and then after that I looked for the anime logos one by one and converted them to ico format

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one thing missing here is, if you change the icon in ext. drive, and if you connect your ext. drive to another PC then the icon you have set will not appear, the trick is using/add desktop.ini file in each folders
the code inside is like this

put your icon inside the folder and change your icon folder, then type the name of your icon in the code, for example "sao-logo.ico",

@tosuka Whoa thats cool :O if you want to link it, I'll add the link in the top post for others to use and credit you

@Shishio-kun the website disappeared a long time ago, and I've forgotten the website address :D lol

I only have this now, 1,797 anime logo icons total, it hasn't been updated for a long time



I uploaded all icons here

@tosuka

I mean if you have a folder you upload with all the ICO you want to share, I can link that shared folder. I uploaded mine to Dropbox

@Shishio-kun I've uploaded it, check my previous post

Thought this was a guide on how to use custom cursors for your MAL.

Since this made me curious, this is how you do that (insert within relevant css field):



Where URL provided must be .png, .gif, .jpg as per MAL (yawn).

If someone can figure out how to prevent it being overridden when hovering over hyperlinks, pray tell.

@NoleDormire there's a whole guide for that :p

@karmashizzle
Wow, amazing what the search function can do. Since Shishio-kun's MAL doesn't do that, I assumed there wasn't a guide here. Thanks for the link...

Thought this was a guide on how to use custom cursors for your MAL.

Since this made me curious, this is how you do that (insert within relevant css field):



Where URL provided must be .png, .gif, .jpg as per MAL (yawn).

If someone can figure out how to prevent it being overridden when hovering over hyperlinks, pray tell.

this might be what you're looking for

@SheyCroix

OK thanks, I will probably try to make some of the changes to it later and reupload it with others in the future. If you can try out the icon making video and are able to do it let me know please I'm not sure if it's gonna work for others but should

@tosuka just the link? People won't know what's inside if your just write logo icon set

Those are amazingg, I usually use custom cursors from other website which I always like,

maybe I look into those as well

Accidentally, I also made a python script to create a custom folder icons 2 days before this thread post lmfao. However, it requires other program like Jellyfin or tinyMediaManager to download image assets of the show :D

The result would look like this:


Anyone can check my script in my monorepo on GitHub. The guide is also available on README.md :D

https://github.com/nattadasu/mediascripts/tree/main/iconcreator

Feel free to reply or dm me if you have questions or problem.

@nattadasu

OK thanks, I've put it into the More icons part. I don't understand Github at all though even when its explained to me, I'd have to see it used correctly once first. Github content creators should really record themselves using their project once successfully as if they were someone completely new to it, I think they'd get many more uses that way.

@Valerio_Lyndon Sounds like it's a good place for the club codes users copy, instead of pastebin

@Valerio_Lyndon Sounds like it's a good place for the club codes users copy, instead of pastebin

@Shishio-kun For CSS codes, GitHub would be nice since users can download and view the raw files and if there's anything wrong anyone can send an issue or make a pull request and the maintainer of the repo can decide whether or not to accept the PR. Most of those who create extensions and scripts for MAL use GitHub. VL's Theme Customizer and MAL Dubs for example. Like VL said, most are hobbyist... so we can't really expect the repos to have videos or proper documentation... Although, most of the MAL extensions and scripts I've seen hosted on GitHub have readable documentations as well as images.

I think if you want some of the codes and results to have a preview then CodePen would be a nice tool; hideso uses CodePen to test their layout/s. CodePen is pretty easy to use; it's sort of like using MAL's layout editor or VSCode with Live Preview. The downside is if you'd want some of your Pens to be private then you'll have to subscribe to their Pro plan. With GitHub, you wouldn't need a subscription as you can set some of your repositories to private for free; there are plans for teams and enterprises. You could consider other options like GitLab, etc. although GitHub is mostly the go-to. For better looking documentation, you may want a static site or pages; you could use GitHub Pages, GitBook, Docusaurus, Retype, etc. I've also seen others use Hugo or Jekyll... MAL Rewrite uses GitBook for their documentations: https://malrewrite.gitbook.io/important-docs I've looked into GitBook and it seems nice but then I think prefer GitHub...

I've mentioned using GitHub before as repo for extensions and scripts related to MAL in another thread... And I still stand with what I said that:

(from: https://myanimelist.net/forum/?goto=post&topicid=2015873&id=70246101)

I think migrating the club's CSS layouts to GitHub wouldn't be so difficult since you'll just store those files there similar to Pastebin; GitHub has better SEO and feels more "professional" (it's used by both professionals and hobbyists). The documentation part would be the one that's a bit cumbersome since MAL uses BBCode (same with Anime-Planet) while GitHub uses Markdown (like AniList). You'd have to convert lots of threads with BBCode to Markdown and there isn't really a decent BBCode to Markdown converter out there. The conversions are not 100% accurate and you'd still need to carefully check and edit. It'd probably be easier to redo contents of some of the club's guides with Markdown than convert BBCode to Markdown and then edit those—my dilemma with converting some of my blogs and threads with BBCode to Markdown... It's not that difficult to convert when the threads are short but it's a pain converting really long posts/guides.

Oh, you can also host assets of various types like large image files in GitHub besides the CSS codes for the layouts. It would be a good alternative to Imgur or DropBox...

I've read a lot about all the sites I've mentioned but I'm still not confident on using most of them skills-wise... Haha. Currently, I use Obsidian and VSCode for most of the things I've been planning to put or share in GitHub... If you don't want everything to be open source then you can use Obsidian with Obsidian Publish. Other Obsidian users publish their stuff for free with GitHub, etc.