Webmin 'Tiger' theme

David — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 00:12:00 +0000

The StressFree Webmin theme features a new graphical look, high colour icons, dropdown menus and an AJAX search tool for locating Webmin modules quickly. It has been tested in Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer.

» Download the Webmin theme now

Alternatively you can download the latest development build from the Google Code Subversion repository.

News and updates

For the latest development news on this theme please see this listing of articles.

Installation

To install open Webmin and browse to Webmin -> Webmin Configuration -> Webmin Themes
Select the downloaded archive from your local disk and press the Install Theme button.
Once installed change the Current Theme dropdown to StressFree Theme and press the Change button.

Note: This will change the default theme for Webmin but will not effect users who have selected a personal theme. If you have enabled the StressFree theme as the default yet find it is not applied check your personal theme settings:

Category -> Webmin -> Webmin Users.
Select your username (e.g. root).
Open "User interface options" and ensure the "Personal Theme" field is set to either "From Webmin Configuration" or to the specific theme name (StressFree).

Screenshots

The logon screen (Click to enlarge)

High colour icons and clean look (Click to enlarge)

Spotlight style search (Click to enlarge)

Dropdown menus in action (Click to enlarge)

Friendly looking help (Click to enlarge)

Webmin theme close to completion

David — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 09:52:00 +0000

The ability to control a server remotely using a friendly web-based GUI is very handy. Novell makes some fairly nice web-based management tools but the same cannot be said for Linux. Webmin exists but I have always been put off by the fact it all looks like it was put together in the early 90's by someone who was in the process of going blind. Recently there have been some more cleaner themes out for it but still nothing to write home about. So to fill in the time and try out some cool new things and brush up on my poor Perl skills I have put together my own, far more tasteful theme for Webmin.
I haven't touched basic Webmin engine but I have pretty much replaced all the graphics and added dropdown menus and a snazzy, AJAX based search tool (that looks funnily enough like another well known search tool). Everything is done is CSS and Javascript and the theme seems to run okay in the browsers I've tested it in (IE/Firefox/Safari). The results are pretty cool and within a week or so I should have all the bugs ironed out and have it online for downloading.
In the meantime here's some eye-candy.....

The new graphic theme with Crystal icons
(Click to enlarge)