ThemeMaker creates not just a .deb of the theme, but a folder of the theme contents and parts. The icons and images are broken down into individual .pngs and placed into a separate "images" folder *during or after* the .debbing process.

I imagine that this folder gets created or transferred into a theme folder in your N8xx's system during the installation process.

My Wish List:

This "images" folder can be created *before* ThemeMaker creates a .deb and not as a consequence of creating a .deb.

This would allow the theme's maker to be able to swap out, replace, change individual icon, image and applet .pngs in this folder before the .debbing process.

This would be great since that would make the theme customizable to whatever *your* wants are - transparent clock but non-transparent internet search applet? Pick those two particular .pgns from a list of .pgn choices (or suite of choices in a folder downloaded via something like Megaupload), drag and drop it into the "images" folder and, voila! ThemeMaker will make a .deb complete with those two particular features.

You want a clock with a transparent clock face with larger visible black dots or internet radio box that's as small and transparent-while-still-being-function but with a solid black frame around the task navigator and applets? How 'bout only the date portion of the clock applet... in a large black font? Or white font? Or middle-sized blue font? You get the idea... .

This would be great - especially since the new version of ThemeMaker apparently pairs up a background image with a preferred theme so that when you chose 'Set theme...' you're also chosing the background image you've connected to that particular theme (Sorry... could be wrong about this since I'm still playing with the older version of ThemeMaker ).

And by breaking down the customization of icons / applets into only playing with one particular .png at a time (as opposed to manipulating the huge theme-template.png currently part of ThemeMaker that requires you to set all your preferred features on the theme-template.png), I think people would get a lot more creative and encouraged to try to make and share icon and applet versions of their own.

For instance, I find I have ideas that don't get played with simply because experimenting and trying things out gets time-consuming and disorganized when dealing with two or three element modifications on the theme-template.png that seems to have at least one hundred images, the theme-template.png than having to be .debbed, then having to be bluetoothed over to the N800, then having to be installed, then... .

This streamlined process would be great for people like me who have enough brain cells to play with some elementary PhotoShop/GIMP features to create/alter images to suite my needs but who have no background in Linux and an aversion to going root unless absolutely necessary because I might royally screw my system up since I really, truly, don't know what I'm doing.

Of course, I might be biased here since I'm trying to figure out exactly the steps to get my new, improved, semi-transparent task navigator icons into the proper folder and for them to show up. More putzing required (during a Mariners game tonight)

Oh, keeping with the original thread... here's my current trial-'n-error screenshot of one of my modified clocks.