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That site has a few problems. It serves an index, but nothing else (not even the void.png) let alone the zip.

That site has no other purpose. Only the zip is relevant to get the changes I showed in the screenshot.

The content of this zip should be used to replace the images under /usr/share/themes/alpha/images.

So I don't know if I understood you wrong... or you me.

I meant it refuses to serve files. I can make it very clear, but I'm afraid I'll be too clear:

telnet eris23.de 80

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: eris23.de
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.7,ro;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 115
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
(serves page, embeds a PNG that doesn't work)

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http://eris23.de/images_alpha_marina.zip

GET /images_alpha_marina.zip HTTP/1.1
Host: eris23.de
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.7,ro;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 115
Connection: keep-alive

<silence>

Unless I request /, it serves nothing, not even a 500. Seems to just hang, not even a connection hangup. Attempts to get through HTTP/1.0 and by simpler syntax net me a 400 Bad Request or a 200 OK with a page in German that translates to "Please do not access the server by the IP address" (my translation), meaning it's throwing a fit unless you add a HOST: to the header.

I can't get the file.

Works just fine with me just clicking the link with MicroB. I can mirror the file if you want to?

Edit: well, here's a mirror anyways:
http://www.firenote.com/D-Iivil/images_alpha_marina.zip

That worked wonders.

ETA: Wow, I didn't know there were so many images in a theme.

Glad it worked out

The basic UI is sliced in ~470 .png images and then you need to add backgrounds and few extra app to that count It's pretty big pile of images. Luckily it has been made easy for us by themecreator or Stskeep's theme layout package that will do the slicing from single png-image

I see.

So, how hard is it to build a theme from these images? I'm not on a Linux machine, nor do I have any clue about building a package. Can I just dump them in a folder and have it show up in theme selection, or is it more complex than that?

I'm itching to make a few changes, and, depending on how that goes, maybe inch towards a theme of my own. I'm a bit let down by the themes available, there are so many good ones, but each one has some special bit that the other lacks. I was thinking maybe merging a few good (through my eyes) ideas.

It's still way too early to assume I'll get anything working, but I'm really itching to try.

Also, how much harder is it to be 1.2 compatible? It feels like only a few items changed, but I'm likely wrong.

Basically you can do that and then edit these two files for your needs under the theme's directory:
index.theme
/gtk2.0/gtkrc

I think you need at least edit theme's name and path for images. Then it should pop up under theme selection menu

Packaging that to deb is another story.

Strange that the link is not working for you. My site is hosted by Strato one of the biggest German hosters. But I'm glad that D-Iivil could help you out.

D-Iivil, do you know of any way to force the hildon desktop to do a refresh of the current theme by command line? What I mean is if I make some changes to a theme by editing the images I always have to switch to another theme and then back to the one I am editing to actually see my changes. This takes so much time that its no fun playing around with different colors for the images...

Sorry, don't know. Would be helpfull for me also

And what's more annoying that just switching the theme does not refresh all elements. To refresh everything you need to do a reboot