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Osso-statusbar-cpu

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http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...3&d=1206559821

Updated, prettier nuvoClear theme. Download it here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NFUUAH2K
(It's a borderless theme for those who haven't seen it.) os2008 only

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When I tried to install it I get the message that the file is corrupted and is 0 bytes and cannot be installed. Downloaded it twice - same result.

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Just in time for summer, I bring to you... FunFun4c (how's *that* for a theme title, huh?).

Applause for the following:

the Fantabulous Urho Konttori - maker of nuvoPearl and Theme Maker!

the Edifying Underscore - creator of nice box frames and enthusiastic all-round player!

Theme highlights of FunFun4c:

- no frames on the home screen and, thanks to Underscore, the web box frame is nice and crisp.
- transparent radio box w. no visible buttons (but they're there and, come on, you *know* where they are on the screen so you know where to tap)
- transparent internet search applet
- transparent clock/date applet (and the clock's been changed to blue and the AM/PM made bigger)
- some more subtle colourful arrows and boxes (because I was playing... that's why).

I'd like to figure out how to do that go-root thang, snag the icon images and play around with them - maybe taking one and making it completely transparent so that choosing it as one of the two icons needed would show up on the screen as one icon and one completely invisible one.

Last time I was playing with the idea last week, I got as far as using X Terminal, inputting a line that should have taken me to the icons folder (copied from another post) but got a 'permission denied' message :confused:). I guess more futzing on my part is required :rolleyes:

But I'll be busy watching a lot a lot of [see screenshots] streaming on my computer. Course, I can put my screen conveniently in a corner and go nutso altering a nuvo template .png for a new Theme Maker project :D

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I do like your colorful theme; it makes mine look boring :D.
One thing I just can't get right (*sigh*) is the rss transparency. Whenever I try to edit the transparency on the rss box (as well as the speed contacts box) I end up with these weird looking artifacts. The default themes' rss boxes look so nice.
-See the rainbow-colored fuzziness below.

Betty, you probably have to become root to cd into that folder. I agree, it'd be nice to change those icons.

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That's really strange...I uninstalled the theme, downloaded it, and installed it and it worked fine. Is anyone else having trouble?

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I'm running OS2007 on my N800 - does that make a difference?

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Oops, sorry. That's my fault. It's for os2008 only. I'll go back and label it. Didn't mess anything up did I?

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Nothing new here, just using nuvoClear.

I greatly prefer the seamless (frameless?) look. I wish the time and date on the clock applet could be brought closer together. And I wish that nuvoClear's Home/App menu didn't white out the active application. For that matter, I wish it's menus were higher contrast and larger font. I'll have to try Betty Woo's FunFun4c. I sure do like the seamless look.

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http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...reenshot02.png

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Thank you all that worked on these new seamless/transparent themes and applets. I really really like them. :)
I do second the suggestion of larger fonts and more contrast of the menu items, or at least not to white them out
Thanks again

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I'm really satisfied with the updated NuvoClear. Thanks. I do have one minor complaint however. In Personal Menu, the background has no contrast, it's basically whited out which makes scrolling through the apps with any accuracy difficult.

Other than that, it's great.

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No, no problem. Thanks.

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Okay, thanks for your feedback guys, I really appreciate it.
Lets see here, I wish I could move the date closer to the clock applet too, but it seems it's fixed there due to the applet's layout.
Font can be increases easily, I agree it's a little small. Increasing the font size will probably make the clock/date applet look better. I've never actually tried Personal Menu; I'll try it out and see what I can do.

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i've gone for the borderless/frameless look too, but like the screenshot a few posts above it now makes simplelauncher stand out even more as non-transparent! anyone got an in on how to fix it?

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uninstall --> install personal menu.

I keed. :cool:

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Underscore, thanks for creating the theme. Maybe someone else is talking about Personal Menu, but I'm referring to the list you get on a short press of the hardwarre Home button - the active app's name disappears into the background.

But nonetheless ... thanks again!

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Ok, here's nuvoClear, updated. >Download<
I think I've taken care of most of what's been pointed out, but there's this black line that I can't get rid of on the keyboard. It's driving me crazy. Does anyone else see it? I'm thinking it may be something left by the lcars theme...

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Underscore: Thank you for this latest update! Surprisingly, I never noticed the low contrast font with personal menu, but I did notice it with application switcher. This was the main thing driving me back to the pre-installed themes from the Nuvo-based ones.

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I played with those two to see about making them transparent, too. I got it but, really when it comes down to it, all I managed to do was make the scrolling RSS feeds appear like they're floating against the background and if you make the background screen of the scrolling text *too* transparent for that part of the box, you can't read the feed lines if it's against a busy background, anyway.

I never did figure out how to use speed contacts so all I have is a lovely empty, barely-there box :)

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I see that some of you, use my disk free space python home applet plugin ...

maybe i should make it transparent ...

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Where can I get this?

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Thanks 4 sharing and, yes, actually it is nicelite 2 :)

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Thank you, thank you, thank you.
This update is wonderful for my old tired eyes :)

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I was reading the other thread about where to put themes and Betty Woo's entry got me thinking about different versions. Could there be a version of nuvoClear that has the background to the digital clock transparent, and another version that has the entire clock (analog/digital) transparent so all one sees is the day and date?

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I love seeing all the different screen shots in this thread. It would be great if there could be two threads - one with screenshots only, and another with text discussing tips on how to set things up.

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ThemeMaker creates not just a .deb of the theme, but a folder of the theme contents and parts. The icons and images are broken down into individual .pngs and placed into a separate "images" folder *during or after* the .debbing process.

I imagine that this folder gets created or transferred into a theme folder in your N8xx's system during the installation process.

My Wish List:

This "images" folder can be created *before* ThemeMaker creates a .deb and not as a consequence of creating a .deb.

This would allow the theme's maker to be able to swap out, replace, change individual icon, image and applet .pngs in this folder before the .debbing process.

This would be great since that would make the theme customizable to whatever *your* wants are - transparent clock but non-transparent internet search applet? Pick those two particular .pgns from a list of .pgn choices (or suite of choices in a folder downloaded via something like Megaupload), drag and drop it into the "images" folder and, voila! ThemeMaker will make a .deb complete with those two particular features.

You want a clock with a transparent clock face with larger visible black dots or internet radio box that's as small and transparent-while-still-being-function but with a solid black frame around the task navigator and applets? How 'bout only the date portion of the clock applet... in a large black font? Or white font? Or middle-sized blue font? You get the idea... .

This would be great - especially since the new version of ThemeMaker apparently pairs up a background image with a preferred theme so that when you chose 'Set theme...' you're also chosing the background image you've connected to that particular theme (Sorry... could be wrong about this since I'm still playing with the older version of ThemeMaker :o).

And by breaking down the customization of icons / applets into only playing with one particular .png at a time (as opposed to manipulating the huge theme-template.png currently part of ThemeMaker that requires you to set all your preferred features on the theme-template.png), I think people would get a lot more creative and encouraged to try to make and share icon and applet versions of their own.

For instance, I find I have ideas that don't get played with simply because experimenting and trying things out gets time-consuming and disorganized when dealing with two or three element modifications on the theme-template.png that seems to have at least one hundred images, the theme-template.png than having to be .debbed, then having to be bluetoothed over to the N800, then having to be installed, then... .

This streamlined process would be great for people like me who have enough brain cells to play with some elementary PhotoShop/GIMP features to create/alter images to suite my needs but who have no background in Linux and an aversion to going root unless absolutely necessary because I might royally screw my system up since I really, truly, don't know what I'm doing.

Of course, I might be biased here since I'm trying to figure out exactly the steps to get my new, improved, semi-transparent task navigator icons into the proper folder and for them to show up. More putzing required (during a Mariners game tonight) :D

Oh, keeping with the original thread... here's my current trial-'n-error screenshot of one of my modified clocks.

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As a newbie to the internet tablet and to Linux I'm all for making things easy and simple.
And keeping with the thread here a screenshot of my current desktop. As you can see I'm trying out the new version of OMW and decided to remove my background image.

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Well, that's why there is the repackage button. So, after you have created the theme, I leave the folder there so that you can edit it as you see fit. You can also add new images in there and if you want, you can add postinst scripts to copy move or whatnot those images, audio, video or whatnot files to any place on the device.

So, after you've done your modifications, just click the repackage and it'll make the packaging, but won't extract the images from the template.

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This is what I did:

1. Opened the 'images' folder of FF4CLOCK (name of trial theme in last screenshot I submitted) that I had sitting in the ThemeMaker 1.1.2 folder on my desktop.

2. Duplicated qgn_plat_clock_analog_am.png.

3. Dragged the qgn_plat_clock_analog_am copy.png over to GIMP (hey! It's less intimidating than PhotoShop!) to manipulate the file a bit by replacing all the clock's 5-minute marks with white dots instead of black dots for the 12 - 3 - 6 - 9 times).

4. Saved the modified image as qgn_plat_clock_analog_am - ALL WHITE AND CLEAR.png and dragged it back to the 'images' folder of FF4CLOCK.

5. Removed the original qgn_plat_clock_analog_am.png file and renamed the qgn_plat_clock_analog_am - ALL WHITE AND CLEAR.png to qgn_plat_clock_analog_am.png (so that it replaces the original file).

6. Start up ThemeMaker OSX (I'm on a Mac)

7. This is where I get lost. I'm not sure how to actually repackage the .deb since the Theme Source Image text field is showing the large template.png I'd originally used for the last theme and when I try to browse, I can't choose either the FF4CLOCK folder or the 'images' folder in FF4CLOCK as the Theme Source Image.

I'm not sure, then, how ThemeMaker is suppose to find the modified 'images' folder if I can't choose it for Theme Source Image and the only thing that seems to be chose-able is the large template.png.

I tried hitting Repackage! (with the large template.png chosen for Theme Source Image) just to see if some how the modified clock .pgns 'images' folder was included in the FF4CLOCK .deb.

Very quickly I got a 'Build successful!' message.

So I bluetoothed the FF4CLOCK.deb over to the N800, saved, opened, chose it as a theme and instead of working, it made the theme look really elemental with none of the lovely nuvo theme .pngs at all. Then the N800 shut down. When I rebooted, it defaulted to the Echo theme.

I redid these steps with a different theme name (and .deb) and got the same result.

Sorry I'm not understanding. I'm sure this is probably much more familiar to others who know Linux much more than me :(

I just don't get how to repackage the .deb and your nice tutorial doesn't go through the actual steps on how to do it.

If anyone wants to try to explain it to me, that would be very helpful. Then... watch me go nuts with the theme mods!

WoOoOoOoOoO wOoOoOoOo :D

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Ok, here is where you took the wrong choice. You should just save it on top of the old image. Then open theme maker, keep the same settings you had when you created the theme, DO NOT change the source image either. Then just click re-package. It will then just package the whole images folder as it is.

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Ah. Thanks. That's a very good step to know and will be helpful :)

Then I guess I'm back to the beginning of my wish list - to be able to have the 'images' folder pre-.deb so that I can dowload theme features from a list of modified feature .pngs on a web page, insert them into the 'images' folder and have the modified-to-taste .deb created.

There's another Mariners baseball game today. While I'm watching it in a corner of my computer screen, maybe I'll use this time to practice going to root and replacing the theme's feature .png with an altered one.

I've got some instructions from a post by jellotherat and another by him(?) here, as well as ebe51's nicely detailed step-by-step instructions. All these instructions came from the Show off you Startup Screen! thread.

I'm sure I'll evenutally, maybe, perhaps figure it out :D

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I've already done it here:
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...&postcount=331
(56K Warning :P)

^-^ :)

(Notice my kernel compile date, London baby! :P)
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http://i26.tinypic.com/3166aab.png

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.wow. qwerty

I would say you have a pretty much reached the last page of maemo... but before pressing back button plz make a wiki with a compilation of all your maemo knowlege ;)

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Hehe, thanks! :)

Not really sure what to write but I don't mind people asking me individual things ^-^ :)

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Yeah, I see the black line on the keyboard. It has nothing to do with LCARS. Looking at the nuvoClear gtkrc file, I see Change that "#000000" to "#ffffff" and the black line disappears.

For the record, the current LCARS packages (v4.1) all install/uninstall properly on the current OS. Unthemeable graphics (statusbar and tasknav icons, startup graphics, and other things that don't change when you switch themes) are in their own package, "lcars-extras" (which can be removed while keeping the themes themselves). The theme packages aren't functionally much different from other themes, although they were actually built with the official theme tools, rather than with ThemeMaker. (see http://live.gnome.org/Hildon/ThemeHowTo )

That's a ThemeMaker bug. There are supposed to be two different images for each desktop applet - one completely opaque, and one alpha-transparency mask. Instead, ThemeMaker produces two identical images (both with transparency). Take the internet radio, for example: the image "qgn_plat_radio_applet_bg.png" is supposed to be completely opaque (since there's a separate image for it's alpha transparency mask, called "qgn_plat_radio_applet_bg_alpha.png"). ThemeMaker mistakenly outputs the same image for both of those, and when the OS tries to apply the alpha mask to an already transparent image, it bugs out and produces the weird artifacts. If you don't feel like waiting for Konttori to fix ThemeMaker, you could fix the images individually and then repackage the theme.

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Thanks a million! These are the only things that are really 'bug'ging me right now and you pretty much fixed them with one post. I searched through the images folder and found both the (supposed to be) opaque and transparent images before, but I never really knew that they were the source of the problem. I'll see what I can do, thanks for your support.


*edit* I'm using WindowsXP....what could I use to edit the gtkrc file? If I edit it with notepad the formatting seems to go haywire.

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Sorry... I got an email from a poster asking if it was possible to make a transparent background clock applet to add to the FunFun4c theme and then I went and lost the email :o

So let me throw the modified FunFun4c theme out into the great big public forum and hope whoever emailed me will read this thread again.

I present to you... FunFun4f ('e' was a bit of a disaster :rolleyes:).

The zip file contains the .deb, description + notes, the theme's actual template .png for anyone who'd like to also play with making some modifications for their own theme, a couple of screenshots to show some of the mods (mostly the analog/digital transparent-background clocks, translucent radio and internet search applets and font sizes) and one or two other things I can't remember at the moment.

In keeping with the spirit of the thread, here's a screenshot showing the analog transparent background clock:

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Ummmm did I just see a QuickTime plugin? Where can this be gotten?

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http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm :)

I just edited on the device with leafpad :)

I'm sure it comes from Bundyo's web mplayer plugin. Not sure on how/if it works though.

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Hello

A screenshot from my N800.
Simple...