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Here is another screenshot to show off a new task manager plugin. Inspired by Command Navigator (which is a great plugin) I have made Personal Menu

Check out the thread if you are interested: http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=17777

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hi

done the pngs, can't get then into the themes folder though (using emelfm2 in as root) says permission denied. how do you get them into the thems folder?

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Change to another theme first .

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Oh, geeze. Um... here's my modified ThemeMaker effort as a .deb (NiceLite2). I've gotten rid of not only the frames, but the radio box itself and toned down the radio station listing bar. A click on the arrow on the right of the bar will bring up all your pre-programmed stations against a white background so you'll never get lost, at least.

I also discovered that I can slide my weather things under the radio station listing bar.

The assumption here is that you already are familiar *where* certain buttons are on the invisible radio box. It didn't take long for me to figure out intuitively where the radio buttons are and where to tap if I want to switch weather cities. The only downside is that the shape is definitely there so you can't just lower the radio station listings bar to the bottom of the screen or top (or make it narrower).

Since I was futzing with some colours, the up/down arrows on the application menu are now pretty blue and the mail alert colour is, I think, cherry reddish.

There were so many buttons and boxes and things on the ThemeMaker .png file that I didn't want to play too much with it since I'm not graphically inclined at all.

I found the application itself was easy once I figured out in PhotoShop how to magic pen areas and just dump a colour in it with the paint can. But, like I mentioned, there are *a lot* of small graphics and, really, I quite like the cool blue of nuvoSourceImage.png so I didn't think there was much need to change many things.

Now I'm just waiting for fiferboy to come up with an incredibly easy way to have a one-button application launcher to get rid of those irritating contact icons and I'll be pretty happy :-)

Um... I've just discovered the theme's .deb is something like 748KB so it won't fit on the forum.

I'm not sure what to do at this point and I'm on my way out to volleyball for the night... any suggestions?

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Here is the .deb file courtesy of Betty. I am just uploading it.

www.sfu.ca/~gsa7/deb/NiceLite2.deb

Let me know if you have any problems downloading the file.

I installed the .deb and it works well. (the desktop looks really good, but when you have an application open the top right hand corner looks a little messed up.)

In any case, thanks Betty for the .deb file.

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I spent about ten minutes trying to figure that slight irksome thing out but damned if I could figure out which of the graphics on the master .png it was :confused:

Now we need a NiceDark theme for light background images... .

Really hope others get in on this and start designing, babies!!

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heres a screenshot of ettercap i go working
2008 os on n810 =p
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/e...6-07-20-44.pnghttp://i231.photobucket.com/albums/e...6-07-20-44.png

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Great stuff indeed! Hey, once you get the themes served somewhere stable, put them to the maemo.org/downloads as well! It's really just filling a form and putting the location of the deb file into the .install link. Send me an email if you need help with that! I love the NiceLite2.

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Thanks Betty, I love the theme's desktop, it's really awesome.

However, there is that problem. Unfortunately, it makes the theme almost unusable! I think I'll try my hand at a theme and see what I can pull off.

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Here's mine. Gotta love that Personal Menu.

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OK. Now I'm confused.

Below is NiceLite2 as I see my desktop without and with an open application.

If the minor loss of border just under the status bar isn't the only thing people are missing, what is it that makes ' the top right hand corner looks a little messed up' or 'makes the theme almost unusable'?

My curiosity is piqued... .

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I really like to complain about the work that others put in to provide me with something for free....

This is a great theme and I, for one, appreciate the work you put into it.

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Honestly - whole thing took about three hours (and three versions).

It was *easy* and the only reason why it took *that* long was because I hadn't used PhotoShop in years and couldn't remember the basics like cut-n-clear, transparency settings and choosing colours (and I had dinner in the middle).

Once I reaquainted myself with PhotoShop and fired up ThemeMaker, it was two boxes cleared, the radio box cleared and the station bar cleared and a light grey colour added at 20%-ish transparency, a couple of fun colour setting changes just for the heck of it and that was that.

Then another 40 minutes total spent saving, loading and testing a couple of versions since I don't have a Mac emulator.

But now I'm wondering if *my* version seems different from the .deb version people may be using... .

When I'm in the mood for a light background, I'll have to use ThemeMaker again and create something like a NiceDark theme.

Unless someone else gets to it first :)

Now... get someone with a background in graphics or illustration... who knows good colour combos... and that's when the real fun can begin. Me? I don't go beyond "um... this blue is pretty. Maybe with... orange?"

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http://i30.tinypic.com/2zeb49w.jpg

not really a screenshot but nevertheless beautiful walllpaper

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Here's mine!

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Nice theme - black and focused

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Here's mine.... Too much...

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Star Wars Imperial Type Theme...

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Is that gmail notifier on the status bar? And if it is, does it work correctly?

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@cLin

Tis the gmail notifier. I keep mine disabled. I don't need it lighting up every 10 mins.

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It is and it does work very well.

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Here's my present home screen. Personal menu included, courtesy of fiferboy :D

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Best looking desktop by far.

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Time for update.
1. Normal mode.
2. Rotated.

I replaced cmd-navigator with fiferboy's personal menu. does everything and more that cmd-navigator did.

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qwerty12: I love how screwed up your statusbar-clock placement is. Hours visible in the statusbar tray and minutes visible in the pull-down tray. I guess you use hours more frequently? :D

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Lol, yeah :D

I only understand 12 hour but the statusbar cpu applet only uses 24 hour so the hours on your statusbar clock provide me with a good solution because I want to keep the other cpu-loadapplet in my main statusbar too without going into the 2nd line :)

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That has to be the most heavily modded homescreen I've seen, Qwerty. I like it.

Anyways, here are some of my screenshots with the new theme I made, NuvoClear, inspired by Betty Woo's NiceLite2 theme, and based off of NuvoPearl. I give Urho Konttori, the maker of NuvoPearl most of the credit; all I did was some editing. It still needs some work, but it's not exactly finished yet. Here it is if you wanna try it out: http://www.sfu.ca/~gsa7/deb/nuvoClear.deb Thank you, osofast, for the storage space.

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hi all

finally i got my N800 up and running. This is my first contribution :-)

Wonder why this reputable camera brand label this product as 'Fastest Auto Focus Camera'... hmmm

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3254/...a80ebaa5a8.jpg

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hi all

finally i got my N800 up and running. This is my first contribution :-)

Wonder why this reputable camera brand label this product as 'Fastest Auto Focus Camera'... hmmm

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;sorry I posted twice :-(

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That is sweet. I need to get some more icons for my Harley theme.

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Oooooooooh... prreeeeeeettyy. Very nice. Me? I like Megaupload. I should have thought of that service myself since I actually have an account there :rolleyes:

More themes! More themes! More screenshots, too! Whheeeeee.

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Thanks, I'm glad you like it. :D Methinks I'll make an entirely new theme when I have the time. I'll go for flat, transparent, and simplistic. That's how I like my desktop anyway.

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Me? I'm a minimalist. I like photographs and graphics and I find the icons and doodads too distracting since they tend to be so cartoony and space-hogging.

That's why I'm still hoping that OS2009 will remove the need for large icons on the left side of the screen, will allow more applets to appear on the left (or, at least, let there be a simple arrow down for a 2nd tier of applets to appear onscreen) and someone will come up with a simple applet like SimpleLauncher.

It would also be great is someone could come up with a way to replace current icons with new ones with the same properties as replacement icons used on Macs or Windows machines - without having to go through the root function.

Of course, I guess this makes me sound like a lazy Linuxian so let me claim that title right now: I Am A Proud Lazy Linuxian! (t-shirts will be sold on the way out of the building).

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I totally agree with you. Give me an option to edit the size of that sidebar and I'll cut it down by half the size. I'd at least like that option so I can change the icon properties easily.

Also, another gripe: more transparency settings for the interface would be nice. One of the biggest issues I had with making that theme was that the window borders could not have any transparency. That was extremely frustrating. This makes rounded-corner themes almost impossible if you want the "themeless desktop" look. I think I'll just square off the corners if I want to make a similar theme, or improve that one. Again, hate to complain about such petty things, but they bother me. Still, I'm sure such a thing is pretty small on Nokia's to-do list. I'd rather see some major software updates instead.

Ps - thanks, osofast, for uploading my theme to FTP. Here's the new link: http://www.sfu.ca/~gsa7/deb/nuvoClear.deb

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Sorry... couldn't resist :)

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I'll try to see later this week on how to add the background support back to theme maker. (just saying this aloud so that I cannot just push it to the future)

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Initial support is now done. So, once I release theme maker later today, you can include the background image in the theme and it will then be available in the set background image dialog window main drop down where the suggested theme backgrounds are anyway. So, just to let you guys know that there is progress. I'll publish the next theme maker very soon.