Re: Sailfish Tweaks
 

Thanks Eminem, but not helpful. Perhaps you misunderstand what I'm asking.
I want to lose the black background to launcher, so I can see my ambience behind my launcher icons.
Running the commands you gave either turns the whole desktop/home/launcher to black (actually useful to know) or brings back the current ambience - perhaps I misunderstand :confused:

Regards,

Re: Sailfish Tweaks
 

Launcher is Launcher. Check qml files of lipstick-jolla-home-qt5.

Re: Sailfish Tweaks
 

Thanks coderus - at least I am/have been looking in the right place according to your reckoning :)

Perhaps I missed something. I played with one file, adjusted some figures and left myself with a flashing black and white screen - so I reinstalled Sailfish.

I'm looking again, now I've reinstalled all the required apps/dev mode/etc.
I thought maybe one of you guys might know directly - it's cool, I shall keep looking, any further input appreciated! :)

Regards,

Re: Sailfish Tweaks
 

Thanks again coderus - you made me look harder into launcher and the file I needed to alter was 'main.qml' in 'lipstick-jolla-home-qt5' - Fan-fkin-tastic!! :)

Regards, :cool:

Re: Sailfish Tweaks
 

This is all very interesting...have you documented the files you've changed anywhere? Might be useful to have a wiki page somewhere for these sorts of tweaks?

Re: Sailfish Tweaks
 

Hi skanky,
no, to answer your question, I haven't made any documentation for the files I've played with. I suppose ultimately, Together Jolla would be the place for such a wiki, or here on TMO..??, suggestions welcomed.

Anyway, the files I played with are all found in /usr/share/themes/jolla-ambient/meegotouch/icons

• graphic-background.png
• graphic-gradient-corner.png
• graphic-gradient-edge.png
• graphic-gradient-home-bottom.png
• graphic-gradient-home-top.png
• graphic-shader-texture.png
• graphic-system-gradient.png
• graphic-texture-pyramid-diffuse.png
• graphic-wallpaper-dimmer.png

All I did was to chmod each file and then rename using '.old' as the extension.
I am aware that the way I edit/rename files is perhaps not the way others do it, but it works for me until I learn to use 'nano' or 'vi'.

Renaming the above files was purely an experiment to see the outcome, the effects might not suit everyone, but for me with fairly crap eyesight, I now find the Jolla screen looks sharper in general and the phone even feels a little faster to operate - YMMV.

The other file,(main.qml - found in /usr/share/lipstick-jolla-home-qt5) as discussed earlier in the thread, I'm still playing with. The outcome so far, is not what I expected but it did remove the black background of launcher but left the ambience static and very heavily obscured - this is as far as I have played with this file (I have already crashed the phone once today, doh!)

Please note: I guess some will not see this post as a list of tweaks and I would be inclined to agree, suggestions to change/move the post are welcomed. :)

Regards,

Re: Sailfish Tweaks
 

Thanks. I've no idea where the best place is, and how useful the information is - aside from listing what affects what.

It's just that I think if and as people look to customise, following those who've blazed the trail is easier than hacking your way through the forest again from scratch. :)

I am aware though, how much of pain self-documentation is though, when trying this stuff - I've forgotten most of my laptop's customisations now, and couldn't get a new one to the same configuration. :confused:

I can't really afford to hack my phone too much - losing it for a week or two earlier was a real pain. I am hoping to get a tablet though and may well consider that more "expendable" in terms of potential time lost re-flashing.

That said, once my current work project has finished, I will be installing the developer kit, so may get some mileage out of that.

Re: Sailfish Tweaks
 

It's not really a problem since as long as you hack simple things like UI you cannot really botch it whatever you do, you can always restore things like thy were under 60 seconds if you totally mess it up.

Here's how to do that;

1.) Always tweak the device by ssh'ing to it, not from fingerterm. Then it does not matter if you break the UI. I use WLAN myself but of course you could ssh in via USB if that's your thing.

2.) Always take backups of the files you modify.

Re: Sailfish Tweaks
 

Hmmm, makes sense, thank you.
Might have to try it, then. :)

Re: Sailfish Tweaks
 

Hey guys,

despite good previous advice, an abundance of confidence crept in, thought I knew what I was doing and now have made 'main.qml' in 'lipstick-jolla-home-qt5' - corrupt!, doh!, my fault (trying to get the hang of Vim!) <------failed miserably! :D

Could someone be kind enough to send me a copy of `main.qml` found in `/usr/share/ lipstick-jolla-home-qt5` ( I imagine that the new file should NOT be patched by Patchmanager - I'm not using patchmanager).

Thanks in advance.

Regards,