This regards Harmony, Melody and WordCity. Possibly others too, but I haven't tested it.

The theme gets reset to default when one of them is selected and the device is restarted, apparently because the fallback script doesn't work properly with optified themes yet.

To fix this, edit /etc/event.d/hildon-control-panel-personalisation and replace the line that says with WARNING: Since this is a system file run on every startup, you should only do this if you are confident that you know what you are doing (and could recover from a mishap).

This will hopefully be fixed in one of the next firmware releases.


Those themes are by the way evolutions of the original development theme (with WordCity being based on Steffen's artwork), so a lot of care and passion has gone into them from the start. I hope you enjoy them! Template files (not backgrounds) were entirely done as SVGs in Inkscape.

Also, hildon-theme-variant-example has now been posted to gitorious, which currently includes a copy of the WordCity main template .png and .svg in the template folder. That certainly should be useful! The whole package has been released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license:

http://maemo.gitorious.org/fremantle...ariant-example

You can use this as a base for making your own themes, if you use the packaging scripts. If you want to use Theme Maker, you might have to edit the templates a bit to match the formats used by Theme Maker.