Theme Template Q&A
 

I was initially planning to make this a little workshop, where I would step by step go through the sections of the theme template. But I'm a little short on time at the moment, so for now I will focus on answering questions. Hopefully this can serve as a reference for some proper documentation in the future, but for now the templates are still a bit volatile, so I do not suggest to move information from this thread to a static place.

If you'd like to have a section of the template explained or clarified, please post a screenshot, ideally with arrows and labels describing exactly what you want to know. :) Especially in the beginning, it is perfectly okay if your questions are very vague though (e.g. "what is all that stuff in that area").

I cannot explain details of the Icons template yet, but as I do some work on Theme Maker, I hope to make that one easier to understand too.

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Perhaps we should make pictures with 2 screenshots side by side, other highlights the part of the template with red and the other one highlights the part in the Fremantle User Interface.

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That's really not as easy as it sounds, thus this thread. If we can assemble a library of instructional screenshots, that's even better.

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I'm doing a theme now that has numbers on the template and when you load the theme you will see the number on the element on the theme. So you see a button you want to change and use number on theme to find right button on template.

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GENIUS. I can't wait to try that! I've been dying to build my own theme!

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Aw, cmon, maemo 5 template is much easier to understand and it's well commented. What problems can you have with it?

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None, but some people might need some additional guidance. For me it was only like building a few themes and learning the layout positions that way.

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There are many many details in the template that are unfortunately very hard to get right without proper guidance. Also there is still a very large section of legacy widgets, which are rarely to never used anymore and thus very hard to test for.

I'm surprised there haven't been any questions yet. :) Hopefully there will be more interest in themeing once the process becomes more user friendly.

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Perhaps it's just a good thing that you need proper skills to theme something. If theming process is too easy, you'll start seeing a lot of low-quality bulk themes that have only a "fancy" wallpaper and the rest is just generic template widgets.

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lol, I think it's better to ensure that people can get right into it. I'm going to spend some time this weekend to see if I can put together something a bit more organized in the PSD.