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Betty Woo is offline Betty Woo
2008-04-06 , 01:25
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Originally Posted by konttori View Post
Well, that's why there is the repackage button. So, after you have created the theme, I leave the folder there so that you can edit it as you see fit. You can also add new images in there and if you want, you can add postinst scripts to copy move or whatnot those images, audio, video or whatnot files to any place on the device.

So, after you've done your modifications, just click the repackage and it'll make the packaging, but won't extract the images from the template.
This is what I did:

1. Opened the 'images' folder of FF4CLOCK (name of trial theme in last screenshot I submitted) that I had sitting in the ThemeMaker 1.1.2 folder on my desktop.

2. Duplicated qgn_plat_clock_analog_am.png.

3. Dragged the qgn_plat_clock_analog_am copy.png over to GIMP (hey! It's less intimidating than PhotoShop!) to manipulate the file a bit by replacing all the clock's 5-minute marks with white dots instead of black dots for the 12 - 3 - 6 - 9 times).

4. Saved the modified image as qgn_plat_clock_analog_am - ALL WHITE AND CLEAR.png and dragged it back to the 'images' folder of FF4CLOCK.

5. Removed the original qgn_plat_clock_analog_am.png file and renamed the qgn_plat_clock_analog_am - ALL WHITE AND CLEAR.png to qgn_plat_clock_analog_am.png (so that it replaces the original file).

6. Start up ThemeMaker OSX (I'm on a Mac)

7. This is where I get lost. I'm not sure how to actually repackage the .deb since the Theme Source Image text field is showing the large template.png I'd originally used for the last theme and when I try to browse, I can't choose either the FF4CLOCK folder or the 'images' folder in FF4CLOCK as the Theme Source Image.

I'm not sure, then, how ThemeMaker is suppose to find the modified 'images' folder if I can't choose it for Theme Source Image and the only thing that seems to be chose-able is the large template.png.

I tried hitting Repackage! (with the large template.png chosen for Theme Source Image) just to see if some how the modified clock .pgns 'images' folder was included in the FF4CLOCK .deb.

Very quickly I got a 'Build successful!' message.

So I bluetoothed the FF4CLOCK.deb over to the N800, saved, opened, chose it as a theme and instead of working, it made the theme look really elemental with none of the lovely nuvo theme .pngs at all. Then the N800 shut down. When I rebooted, it defaulted to the Echo theme.

I redid these steps with a different theme name (and .deb) and got the same result.

Sorry I'm not understanding. I'm sure this is probably much more familiar to others who know Linux much more than me

I just don't get how to repackage the .deb and your nice tutorial doesn't go through the actual steps on how to do it.

If anyone wants to try to explain it to me, that would be very helpful. Then... watch me go nuts with the theme mods!

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