Notices

So I worked on a few iphone themes before and started digging into the system for goodies to modify. I wanted to figure out howto get rid of the background behind each icon. I couldn't find any info on the forum so here it is.

2 files in your current theme folder need to be modified.
Alpha seems to be nokias default blue theme, Beta is the default orange theme, for others they should be the name of theme from what I have seen so far just check the images folder.
/usr/share/themes/beta/images

I'm using the orange theme from nokia so the 2 files I need to change are the following files:

/usr/share/themes/beta/images/ApplicationShortcutAppletPressed.png

/usr/share/themes/beta/images/ApplicationShortcutApplet.png

Just rename these files in term or ssh to .old instead of .png and reboot your phone.
Your icons should be backgroundless ohh and also you can fit more icons on your screen without it looking like a cluttered mess.

More to come.

MrHack

can you add here the 'how to' steps? like what are we supposed to type? sorry i dont know any codes, im not into programming. just want to tweak some stuff here and there

mhm?
this info is mentioned a few times in some threads around here.
i think the best thread for this is "share your mods".
-> http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=39565&page=65

Thanks b666m, I did a search and nothing came up on it.

could somebody please post the code?

wouldnt it be (for pressed)???

*mv /usr/share/themes/beta/images/ApplicationShortcutAppletPressed.png /usr/share/themes/beta/images/ApplicationShortcutAppletPressed.old*

& to restore the icon backgrounds would be???

*mv /usr/share/themes/beta/images/ApplicationShortcutAppletPressed.old /usr/share/themes/beta/images/ApplicationShortcutAppletPressed.png*

Easier than that.

Open terminal and type:

Should do the trick.

MrHack, you may want to run a search for "Screenshots" and also "Truly Epic" as these are the threads where all the mods have been done. There are also a whole lotta custom icons in there from various modders along with all sorts of other ideas etc, knock yourself out on the 300 or so pages of posts!

Enjoy mate....

Hello everyone,

I had removed the icon backgrounds when in PR1.2, and the top icons for battery, signal strength, etc were also no background. I followed the above instructions after updating to PR1.3, but now it does not remove the backgrounds of icons on top. Any suggestions?

why not using theme-customizer???simply 1click away to deselect background of the icons!

Tried, but that also does not remove the backgrounds of icons on top

what do you mean?? the menu bar icons? if thats the case, in theme customizer, you can just change the menu bar opacity to get rid of that background. for example this is the result.