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Re: [Announce / WIP] Theme Customizer - testers and votes needed

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Originally Posted by deny_winarto (Post 879131)

I think the app icon was somehow different.. After i change it there's no more shadow behind it..

There is a box saying show apps background, I belive thats the kind of shadow you are looking for.

Re: [Announce / WIP] Theme Customizer - testers and votes needed

d-iivil, what about my request bro? You haven't implemented it yet? :(

Re: [Announce / WIP] Theme Customizer - testers and votes needed

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Originally Posted by anismistry (Post 879187)

Thanks, i have downloaded PR 1.3 and havent faced problems yet.

I was able to download the theme customiser. Thanks for this effort it helps in not getting of your desktop.

just come across an idea can expandible icons be made with transitions. what i mean is suppose we press the the calculator icon instead of taking us to the full application and takes its own time, it just expands say to take half the desktop size and we can use the calculator there and there instead a new window opening.

No i don't think it would be possible.. not by Theme Customizer anyway. It is hard coded to the hildon-desktop i think and would probably need some major rewriting to do this. I like the idea thoug.. maybe someone could make a docky which opens "widgets" like this. AWN docky have this capability on the desktop for the terminal and stuff.

Re: [Announce / WIP] Theme Customizer - testers and votes needed

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Originally Posted by deny_winarto (Post 879131)

Thanks for the app.

But how do i restore everything to default?
I think the app icon was somehow different.. After i change it there's no more shadow behind it..

Restore theme files doesn't work..
Restarting doesn't work either

How do i restore eveythng to original?

How-To, reverting to original. Part 1
Tap Theme Customizer's top menu and choose restore files
Uninstall theme customizer from app manager
Reboot

If the step one fails, you can type this into terminal and see if you face any errors:
sudo /sbin/customizer "restorefilespushed"

Re: [Announce / WIP] Theme Customizer - testers and votes needed

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Originally Posted by RAZOR (Post 879201)

d-iivil, what about my request bro? You haven't implemented it yet? :(

Was it the ability to choose what icons to use for catorise / app manager?

Sorry, I'm fixing / implementing new stuff pretty much on the fly when my brains gets something fixed up. I really haven't had a lot of time to actually do all things promised here (yet) :)

Re: [Announce / WIP] Theme Customizer - testers and votes needed

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Originally Posted by d-iivil (Post 877794)

Still, technically it does same things even you don't change anything. However, the hildon-desktop and hildon-home are sometimes tricky and won't start in reasonable time and it's all about the positions of moon and stars as far as I have seen. But not once they have failed to start on my device, even I run the customizer several times a day while testing it.

Fullmoon today and desktop didn't start within 10 minutes. Maybe it has to do with updating theme customizer to current version and using it without restarting between.
I'll add a screenshot of what the desktop looks like when customizer is done. In background you see conky which regularly updates but is completely unreadable. On top there is the black rectangle, which I guess belongs to system menu (the one opened with tapping on battery icon area). The other menu (opened by pressing the button on the side of N900) opens and offers the standard entries including reboot and shutdown. So I can at least shutdown correctly and restart the device.

Re: [Announce / WIP] Theme Customizer - testers and votes needed

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Originally Posted by x-lette (Post 879423)

Okay. Have you done anything "special" to you device? Since hildon-desktop and hildon-status menu are by default kind of processies that gets automaticly started if they are killed (that's what theme customizer does, kills hildon-desktop and hildon-status-menu). I'll add later some "start service if not autostarted" things and see if they will solve your issue.

Re: [Announce / WIP] Theme Customizer - testers and votes needed

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Originally Posted by d-iivil (Post 879454)

I've that modified desktop-hildon-home-stuff installed and currently using 5 desktops. I just remeber having read somewhere that killing desktop is not the way it's supposed to be restarted. There should be a clean way to restart desktop without killing it. I'll try to find the thread where it was discussed, must have been about desktop activities, I guess.

EDIT: just one link found:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...9&postcount=12
This is about using dsmetool for starting services. I guess, desktop should already run under this supervision, in which case it would make no sense in starting it this way again. Otherwise, I didn't find any hints that it is really started using dsme. Guess I will have to play around with my device a bit.
Besides that, the tool seems to have changed a bit since writing the linked entry: on cmdline it says:

Code:

USAGE: dsmetool <options>

Note that the <cmd> should include absolute path.

  -r --start-reset=<cmd>          Start a process

                                   (on process exit, do SW reset)

  -t --start-restart=<cmd>        Start a process

                                   (on process exit, restart max N times,

                                    then do SW reset)

  -f --start-restart-fail=<cmd>   Start a process

                                   (on process exit, restart max N times,

                                    then stop trying)

  -o --start-once=<cmd>           Start a process only once

  -c --max-count=N                Restart process only maximum N times

                                   in defined period of time

                                   (the default is 10 times in 60 s)

  -T --count-time=N               Set period for restart check

                                   (default 60 s)

  -k --stop=<cmd>                 Stop a process started with cmd

                                   (if started with dsme)

  -S --signal=N                   Set used signal for stopping processes

  -u --uid=N                      Set used uid for started process

  -U --user=<username>            Set used uid for started process

                                   from username

  -g --gid=N                      Set used gid for started process

  -G --group=<groupname>          Set used gid for started process

                                   from groupname

  -n --nice=N                     Set used nice value (priority)

                                   for started process

  -m --oom-adj=N                  Set oom_adj value for started process

  -d --start-dbus                 Start DSME's D-Bus services

  -b --reboot                     Reboot the device

  -v --version                    Print the versions of DSME and dsmetool

  -h --help                       Print usage

The option -k doesn't seem to restart the given service again.

Sadly, I didn't find more infos on that. The thread about activity manager also just mentions killing the desktop. I cannot find the thread where I read about another solution.

Re: [Announce / WIP] Theme Customizer - testers and votes needed

I already use dsmetool to shutdown and restart hildon-home. hildon-desktop should be safe to just kill. I'll try to see if I can use the dsmetool to restart the hildon-desktop also. In my previous tests I could successfully shutdown the hildon-desktop, but for some reason I couldn't get it back up using dsmetool, that's why I ended up using just killall command.

Re: [Announce / WIP] Theme Customizer - testers and votes needed

I did some playing with theme customizer today and changed about ten times fonts, icons sets and colors and now I think I figured out when and why desktop doesn't restart anymore: It seems to have to do with MyContacts (the app/widget which groups contacts and let them get accessed from desktop easily) which seems to run like a kind of a daemon (wasn't aware of that, always thought when enabling the widget and closing the app it's closed). Restarting worked perfectly when MyContacts doesn't run. As soon as I started it (even without adding the widget) the desktop was f***ed up after restart and I had to reboot. So it's not your fault at all and I gues you can't even do anything about it.
So I'll have to keep in mind to first close MyContacts and then do changes to appearance. Kind of annoying but both apps (MyContacts as well as Theme Customizer) are needful.

Nevertheless, I still haven't found the comment about restarting that hildon stuff. :( (makes me think I'm getting old and senile)