Notices

Originally Posted by D-Iivil

pleego is in pack 2:
http://maemo.org/packages/view/plastic-addon-pack-2/

Originally Posted by stlpaul

Hi D-Livil,

I love your themes and this package is really awesome.

You (and every other theme author) can greatly reduce the size of your themes by optimizing the PNG files.

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Originally Posted by D-Iivil

Menus are displayed using zenity and I don't have a clue how to hildonize it. But zenity is open source and someone could indeed do something for it's dialogs.

Originally Posted by ceroberts75

maaan. i installed the pack 2 to try the pleego and now even though i uninstalled pack 2, i cannot get it to go back to the plain black plastic it was before.

that meego background just will not go away. i choose the standard theme from nokia, and it was fine, then i changed to a liquid gold and it is fine, but every time i change it back to the standard black, it puts that meego background back on....i even tried to change the background to black plastic and same issue.

Originally Posted by ceroberts75

yes. not the first time it happened to me.


i just uninstalled all the theme packs and black plastic, then reinstalled only the black-plastic-theme and the plastic-pack-1

working good now.

Originally Posted by stlpaul

Hi D-Iivil,

I love your themes and this package is really awesome.

You (and every other theme author) can greatly reduce the size of your themes by optimizing the PNG files.

In dealing with PNG files on the web I've traditionally used a voodoo combination of optimizers to achieve the best results. By using this same process on all of the PNG files in your black-plastic-theme plus theme packs 1 and 2, I was able to reduce the size on disk by 37%.

The "voodoo" is that I run advpng, optipng, advpng, advdef, in that order, all on max settings (-z4 for advpng/advdef and -o7 for optipng). From my experience running them in this order and this combination seems to give the best results. (If anyone knows a better way, I'm happy to hear it).

These tools are available from:
http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/comp-readme.html
http://optipng.sourceforge.net/

They are also available to run on the device by installing the optipng and advancecomp packages in an Easy Debian chroot.

This does not change the image at all (optimized are pixel-identical to original), it simply optimizes the way the data is compressed in the file (pkzip deflate method).

For example, I installed black-plastic-theme and the packs 1 and 2, and then optimized the PNG files in /usr/share/themes/blackplastictheme-themedir

Original size of /usr/share/themes/blackplastictheme-themedir:
40,791,038 bytes

Optimized size of /usr/share/themes/blackplastictheme-themedir:
25,900,014 bytes

almost 15 megabytes of savings!

I ran this command to recursively run the 4 commands on every file (there are 100 ways to accomplish this same thing, I know...)

Code:

find /path/to/themes/ -name \*.png -exec advpng -z4 '{}' \; -exec optipng -o7 '{}' \; -exec advpng -z4 '{}' \; -exec advdef -z4 '{}' \;