[WIP] PIP-BOY n900
 

Hi people
I'd like to get some feedback on a Theme I'm currently working on for my newly acquired N900. I saw there already are Fallout themes and I did try them both, but even as good as they are, it wasn't what I was looking for. So I started my own.

Doing it using the Theme Maker under windows, which I lately heard isn't a good choise. But it works for me so far.

Anyway here are screens from my phone using it, to see the current progress. Let me know what you think!!!

Cheers!
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UPDATE

1.0.11b to download

Just unzip into your .documents and in x-terminal do

Then you can switch to PIP-BOY n900 theme.

It's the only way I know how to install it before I figure out how to create a deb install. :/

CHANGELOG - "b" stands for "blue"

1.0.11b - Different default wallpapers. Added chat presence icons (online, away, busy, offline). Changes to Mediaplayer widget. Color setup for SMS conversations changed slightly to better fit the theme.

1.0.1b - Added 48x48 icons of battery for the statusmenu just to see how it works. I'll change all of the menu icons, now then I know how to do it.

1.0b Lets say this is the starting point. For my personal use I would stop here I guess.

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EXTRAS
Extra backgrounds Extra sets of wallpapers with alternate HOME screens

Contacts and Internet shortcut alternates (with thumbnails).
Copy into /home/opt/usr/share/themes/pip-boy_n900/images/

Battery meters based on work, done here, by dr_frost_dk. If you like it don't forget to thank him as well. It's QBW widgets, so you need it installed if you want to use those. BTW: The Vault Boy gets hurt as the percentage drops.

Battery meter 100% sized Vault Boy - The size of this meter is the same as the Vault Boy on the wallpaper.
Battery meter 75% sized Vault Boy - The size of this meter is 75% of the Vault Boy on the wallpaper.
Battery meter 50% sized Vault Boy - The size of this meter is 50% of the Vault Boy on the wallpaper.

Live wallpaper - This is an prototype of the live wallpaper. Almost the way I like it.

Re: [WIP] PIP-BOY n900
 

Looks nice so far, good luck on that.

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Yet its great! I did post lots of good fallout stuff icons and wallpapers in the pipboy theme threads but was originaly shot down for wanting a similar look, in the design section somewhere, looking forward to the finished theme

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great work broo

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so far so great

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Looks awesome!!

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I LOVE IT!
When it's available in HAM, please post up instantly! I love it! (Massive Fallout fan. From the original)

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Looking good, but i must make you aware of an issue that occured on another Fallout theme - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=491422

Urgent Cease and Desist Notice

Re: Pip-Boy 3000 Theme v1.1 for ThrottleLauncher (“Pipboy Skin”)

We write to notify you under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that you are infringing on the exclusive rights of Bethesda Softworks LLC (“Bethesda”), the wholly owned games division of ZeniMax Media Inc. (“ZeniMax”), by making available for download a Windows Mobile “Pipboy Skin” based on the Fallout® video game franchise in violation of our exclusive copyright rights. Bethesda is the exclusive holder of the copyrights in and to the Fallout® video games and content therein, including the design of the “Pipboy” device and the “Vault Boy” character. Your “Pipboy” skin is an unauthorized copy of our design elements and a derivative work of our proprietary Fallout® games content in violation of our exclusive rights. I

Dissemination of the Pipboy Skin is in direct violation of U.S. and international copyright laws. As a duly authorized representative of ZeniMax, I have a good faith belief that such illegal conduct in the manner complained of herein is not authorized by ZeniMax, its subsidiary, Bethesda, its agents, or by law.

Accordingly, we hereby demand that you cease any further publication and/or distribution of the Pipboy Skin and cease and desist from engaging in any such further infringement of our proprietary rights in the future. Failure to comply with this request will lead to action for injunctive relief and/or a claim for damages as warranted.

We demand that you provide us with written assurance within three (3) days from receipt of this message that you have taken the necessary steps to cease publication and distribution of the Pipboy Skin and will prevent any further infringement of our intellectual property rights.

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I'm not saying stop what your doing as i would love a Fallout theme, I'm just making you aware of previous issues.

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You can change the name, why don't you call it pip-guy os something like that? they will never know about it :D

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or maybe TIT-GIRL n900

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thank you for the great feedback folks.
it really is encouraging. although it's basically finished for my needs, I will continue to work on it to make it as complete as possible.

if any of you guys has an idea how to pack it and make it available I will gladly share what I have.

progress won't be fast though as my time is VERY limited.


Actully I'm aware of that post, but I do not really believe it's legit. An email can be sent by anyone. So I will just continue to promote the great Fallout universe until I'm told differently thru official channels.

So just skip this and we'll see what happens.



thanks again folks and cheers.

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Can I ask what are the icons on your desktop, top left where the clock usually is. Is that a wierd clock? Or is that part of your theme? Not complaining just trying to get my head round what it is and if it is a clock how do you tell the time? Is it the binary clock thing I saw floating round once?

Also about the legal problems that might happen? Think how many people read these forums, the N900 is a minority phone, hardly an iphone app is it?

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They'd be pretty stupid if they would really do something like this.
1. You don't charge money for this theme
2. It's still a good publicity for the game and for the creators

Anyway I like the theme a lot... what I believe would be an improvement would be custom icons for battery and so on in the top bar. Changing the colors would suffice imho...

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@twigleaf1976 : that is indeed the binary clock plugin.
the top row is for hours and reads converted values are 16 8 4 2 1
you just add togeter the "on" dots and voila there goes the hour.
bottom row is the same for minutes with additional 32.

@MONVMENTVM : Thats on the todo list. :)

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Bethesda have not bothered about the 2 other fallout themes for maemo5 so i cant see anyone even being aware of this theme

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...1&postcount=28
the other thread with icons/images link

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But neither one of these other two themes are complete. Joppu's doesn't work with PR1.3's keyboard and I haven't tried the other one since it was released.

Sad really, because Joppu's theme looks pretty good.

Forgot to add that this theme looks very promising so far. If it gets uploaded to devel, I'll give it a try.

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Thanks Lee for the link. Some of the pics might prove useful!

@cr0c0 : Well I would like to to put that on the devel so you guys can try it. But that might take time... As I never even saw linux before I bought this phone, I really have no idea how to that yet. I can do stuff in photoshop and I'm kinda able to adapt, but my learning curve is really slow. First, I'm not that young anymore, second, I really don't have much time.:D

So If there is some easy way to put this on devel let me know. I'm using Thememaker on windows right now...


Anyway, here is first try on a little boot video to match the theme. Hope you enjoy it. As a sidenote, I did use part of koptu3 short video.

See it here on youtube.

Let me know what you think.
Cheers

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Thanks for the hard work! Love the theme and the boot video.

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This is shaping up very, very nicely... Thank you for your excellent work!

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Looks excellent, can't wait to try it (both the theme and boot video, which is pretty killer)

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awesome, keep it up

any news?

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Something else that would be cool as boot video is a vault door opening... Then there would be nothing but white light behind the door or something like that.

I guess the easiest way to do that would be to make a custom Fallout 3 / New Vegas map with a vault door rigged as you want and then record it.

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@tobyax: Thanx. No news sadly as I have ZERO time. I haven't been even close to my PC i the last three days. But well, you havembeen warned. The progress is gonna be slow. Sorry :)

@ToJa92: That might indeed look good, but not really something that I would like. For a Fallout theme, cool. But I'm upto an fully functional PIP-BOY. So an initializing video is what I'd like. Seeing as I'm not good at making videos though, I'll just stick with the one I posted. after some tweaking of course.


Cheers!

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Looking good custom icons for apps would put this over the top.

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Thanks, that is indeed what I'd like to do... have to figure out how exactly though. :D


In the meantime if someone wants to try it, I have uploaded the theme here. updated in post #1

Just unzip into your .documents and in x-terminal do

sudo gainroot
cp -r ~/MyDocs/.documents/opt/* /home/opt/usr/share/

Then you can switch to PIP-BOY n900 theme.
It's the only way I know how to install it before I figure out how to create a deb install. :/

I just noticed the outline on the volume slider is little shifted. I'll correct that later. Let me know how it works for you.


*EDIT* Oh well. I just decided I don't like the outline on sliders at all and will remove it later...

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Look at pypackager for debs but I prefer py2deb but it only does source package for repos. If you want to do the icons as a seporate package look here at for instructions. The same basic instructions work on themes also. If needed I can package it for you.

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Any progress on the pipboy theme? Really good up to now and got installed on my n900 as someone said custom icon/colours for things like the conversations widget would be immense. I've seen the extra d4rk themes change these. The ultimate goal would be to get it all in the style of the pip boy with no full colour icons etc.

Does anyone know a way to produce a contact shortcut that has no icon to it? The idea would be to just have a list of names in a larger font that you could click the name to bring up the contact card.

The only other option would be to have all the contacts set so the avatar was a pipboy or girl icon.

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Hey,
sadly not much progress done as I really lack the time for it ATM.
Only changes done from the previous upload are the sliders, which now work and show as intended at the begining and few really unnoticable minor changes.

I'll upload the new file tomorrow and will add it to the first post. So just watch for the edit over there.

Thanks for trying it out. Any other suggestions apart from the icons? Those are on the to do list and I'm already trying to setup all stuff as per Andrew's post above.

Cheers!

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Current Contact Widgets can't do that you would need to write a new widget. As far as the Avatar yeah you can do that just change the icon under the icon theme. I can't remember which icon it is right now but not hard to find.

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Ok cool will have a look at finding a default icon for contacts that fit the pip boy.

Cheers for the update Tinukedaya.

Another thing do you know if its possible to alter the bookmark shortcuts so it doesnt show the preview of the webpage? Maybe just a default icon and text or just text?

WildmanUK

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If I remember right you can edit it by hand to replace the images but no I don't think there is a easy way.

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Go with ToJa's idea for Vault door! Love it!

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Thats a no-go for me. It just don't suit my idea about the look of the theme.

I like the idea as such, I'm just not going to do it :)

But then, feel free to do it yourself *wink*

Cheers.

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Then I will ;)

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Very good...do not forget to show it once you're done :)

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What I'm going to have a look at doing is finding my old Fallout and Fallout2 CD ROMS and pop them in, find the video files and just convert them to AVI :D

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Post #1 updated with last version to download.

Enjoy and let me know.

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Thanks for the latest verison will check it out later.

I have managed to change the signal strength icons to the blue of the theme.

Will try and upload the images and were to put them etc later.

How do you take a screen shot of your n900 screen?

WildmanUK

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Its ok ignore the screenshot bit :)

Google is your friend :D Ctrl+Shift+P.