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Everything Else => General Support and Discussion => Zaurus General Forums => Archived Forums => Themes, Icons, and Backgrounds => Topic started by: Merardon on October 01, 2005, 05:43:21 pm
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Are any black/dark coloured themes available? Are themes for any other GUI compatible with it? I wish it'd let me input my own colours, or use Gnome themes or something. Thanks in advance.
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the only themes out are from Cresho's site zaurusthemes.org and mine [in my sig] which are just a modification of Cresho's themes. i am working on two themes at the moment. This is only the titlebar button scrollbars/scrollbar buttons, mini buttons etc. you can install those after getting a nice iconset from cresho's site, unless he has the ones he's been working on up...you can also edit the colors if you want to darken it up a bit, I went with blue, but that may change soon.
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Hmm....getting some ideas...
How hard is it to make a theme?
LOVE these (http://art.gnome.org/themes/icon/1008) icons...a window border like this (http://art.gnome.org/themes/metacity/736) maybe..
Anybody know any icons that would fit in nicely with that set?
If anybody's interested, say so and give me some recommendations.
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hey I really like those icons, maybe use it in my gnome theme. Poke around for titlebars(pngs, jpgs whatever), always looking for ideas, but the icons are way cool.
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consider me working on a theme to incorporate these icons, or perhaps cresho would like to do that and I will think of something for the buttons(theme part)
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find more examples of this kreski icon theme, specifically buttons, other devices, scrollbars etc....
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btw, Cresho, did you ever happen to find the dang tabs location? If not I will start looking into it, It's really the last thing to go.
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Original icons (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/7899719/)
Those are the original icons. Unfortunately, as far as I'm aware, that's it.
If you picture a default horizontal background something like this (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/4968159/), and a vertical background like this (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/4970139/), along with the icons, and a black/dark grey/darkish brown? colour scheme, and you should see where I'm going. Those are the wallpapers I usually use, actually. If someone else wants to make this type of theme, then I'd be quite happy, but I'm willing to work on it myself.
More theme ideas (http://davekaufman.net/taxonomy/term/7).
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hey bam...if you can make the color themes and title bars ill make the ipk,s and post them on the site. i been rather busy. im working an a sl6000 theme and yours being ported from the archive file to ipk.
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sure, ill do the decorations directory, tats the buttons titlebar, etc....and ... actually we need to find a dev to make an application to select the colors, because everyone tweaks those.
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havent forgotton, just no time right now, will start something very....dark next weekend
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I SEEN something like a full set of icons that are totally like dark like and nice.
ill start the theme after noiar is done.
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then I will do the decorations and you do the icons?
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yeah
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Thanks, both of you! Good luck! Take your time, I look forward to seeing the finished product. If I knew how to help out, I would.
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contacted the creator of Kreski Lines, asked if would be interested in doing a zaurus theme on commission, awaiting his reply.
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I'm still here, and interested. I'm willing to help pay for the commission, 50/50.
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I started work on it today, i have an ear infection so all im doing is sitting on my butt because its too hard to lay down. Might as well work on it right? expect the final product due today. ill post pictures
just for your information.
1. I will use the original icons
2. dark theme will be implimented but mostly dark brown or grey to compliment icons(i will make 2 types.)
3. find me a few backgrounds i can use but i have 2 in mind already. That way, i can put them up with zaurusthemes as well.
4. will design a new title bar with probably 4 different variations including the shiny balls you posted as well.
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I don't mean to interrupt, but would this theme work in Cacko 1.23?
I've tried other themes in Cacko, but some things seem to get messed up, since Cacko has different ways of implementing themes than Sharp ROM does.
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Heh..thanks! Although I was attempting to come up with inspiration..I tried to make it myself, but quickly discovered that I'm no artist. Please, make it however you feel like, or not at all if it's a bother. I'm sure it'll look great. It seems the backgrounds I posted have disappeared...perhaps this artist (http://viperv6.deviantart.com/gallery/) can provide you with a suitable background image? I quite like his work.
Many thanks.
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I don't mean to interrupt, but would this theme work in Cacko 1.23?
I've tried other themes in Cacko, but some things seem to get messed up, since Cacko has different ways of implementing themes than Sharp ROM does.
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you mean to say that the cacko 1.23 themes a slapt and put in zaurusthemes do not work?
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you mean to say that the cacko 1.23 themes a slapt and put in zaurusthemes do not work?
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No. What I meant was when I first got my Z, I downloaded the Sharp rom themes and used them by mistake in Cacko.
When I first got my Z, a lot of things were confusing to me, and I made mistakes confusing Sharp rom and Cacko interchangeably.
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ohh,....that would mean me flashing cacko and do it from that perspective. Its alot of work, im dealing with over 1475 files.
Ill see what i can do.
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When I posted that post above, I had forgotten how much different Cacko is from Sharp ROM.
I'm happy with the slightly moded theme I have in Cacko.
That looks like too much work, don't bother with it now.
Other people with Sharp ROM asked first anyway
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hey...im giving the mediaplayer a face lift as well as the photostorage application.
I need some ideas. probably something from winamp.
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[...] I need some ideas. [...]
Well, I always get inspired by some of the Enlightment Window Manager
Themes. Check out Ben's page at http://www.cuddletech.com/e17 (http://www.cuddletech.com/e17) to see some
"neat" screenshots. The stuff on that page is historical, and the ray traced
planet theme I created might be a guide of what not to do or embolden you to
experiment with some very original colors, etc. Unfortunately the conversion from
PNG to JPEG removed the detail necessary to "justify" those colors.
Keep in mind, that at the time I was in the middle of trying to get a "sun" to look
near-realistic, and I was toying with different color planet surfaces. The color
of the surface is not indicative of my tastes! I think I coded the surface color as
white, but it picked up that unrealistic hue from the "sun"...
EDIT: I removed my "ugly" inline desktop screenshot screenshot, it was
cluttering this thread in many ways.
( http://www.cuddletech.com/e17/shots/pink_craters.jpg (http://www.cuddletech.com/e17/shots/pink_craters.jpg) )
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here is a small update. Right now, im having difficulty fixing the brightness to the way it's suppose to look originally. Zaurus has a bad way of not allowing users adjusting brightness or contrast. It getting there. I just need a few more tweeks and i will have the ipk icon installer available. when im done, ill figure out what to do with the rest of the application icons. Maybee ill leave them alone but not sure. I just want it to come out punching off the line.
here is a quick pick...mind you I am not using the background cuz its the one I currently use on my z.
Also, I am working on the taskbar. I am going to add metalic chains....and those black pearl buttons will have silvery - and + added to them but will look chrome with a slight shade to make it look for real. the taskbar and text will also get a face lift.
so there will be 3 ipk's to install
1. icons
2. taskbar
3. colortheme.
ill probably make 2 (taskbar and colortheme combined)
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Wow... Very nice... I'm definitely going to use some of those icons (when posted).
If you created those icons from scratch, you deserve a round of applause in my mind!
For some reason, it reminds me of the look and feel of the original Myst game...
EDIT: OK, I just found out about the "Kreski -Lines" theme, by reading more posts...
Great stuff...
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If you created those icons from scratch, you deserve a round of applause in my mind!
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I wish I did. Some I just edited from originals. Those are not definite but something to give me an idea where its going.
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contacted the creator of Kreski Lines, asked if would be interested in doing a zaurus theme on commission, awaiting his reply.
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no..I wouldnt bother. its free. besides i hate to charge for someone else's work.
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here is an update. now im working on the borders, taskbar, and title bar.
Need some opinions Im still tweaking the icons so the colors will stick out more. On the zaurus, it looks plain white but i found a good combination that will do the trick.
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Its funny though, I had a background I designed a while back just like this one. But the guy does something to it i cant. So im sticking with this background since it reminds me of the steel metalic theme i did for the zaurus sl5500 that i never released.
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That's very impressive looking.
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Dude, that's freaking cool looking!
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more screenshot !!!!
but it looks great !!
perhaps it's too dark to read the name of the icon ...
do you create your icon yourself ?
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Cresho, you do amazing work. It looks good!
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The IPK is done. it is finalized with background and startup screen along with a new "flash" when pressing the icon down.
Now I wont release it until i have the taskbar done along with the Dark Materia color scheme.
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... Now I wont release it until i have the taskbar done along with the Dark Materia color scheme. ...
You should give a rough timeframe estimate, so folks can get off the edges of their
chairs. I suspect it will be the most popular theme used on the Sharp ROM.
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... Now I wont release it until i have the taskbar done along with the Dark Materia color scheme. ...
You should give a rough timeframe estimate, so folks can get off the edges of their
chairs. I suspect it will be the most popular theme used on the Sharp ROM.
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Yea, my butt is starting to go numb!
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I realized why that theme remided me of the original Myst game. There were pages
you had to collect that look extremely similar to that page with the folded corner.
One of the levels, the Mechanical Age, had a building with geared turnstiles that
look very similar to the gears icon. The arrow icon on the Todo application looks
like the cursor did, when you wanted to turn around (reverse your direction). The
color scheme, hand drawn entities, and the attention to the smallest detail also
lends to creation of a pleasing user experience. And I just noticed that that mask
icon on the task bar, is similar to a tribal mask that was on the wall of one of the
rooms. I'm sure I could go on, but again I this work is really great...
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the ipk is done. Working on the color scheme is a problem that i am now expiriencing. It seems as if I change the color scheme, the tick or untick buttons are not visible. I just need to find the problem and fix it.
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More screenshot please !!!!
Hum and where can i find help to how manage theme ??
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the color scheme is getting on my nerves. It seems that if I change a color scheme to lets say dark, the text goes white on the zaurus. If the color scheme is light, then every text is dark. the problem is when you put a checkmark on something, it will not show a checkmark.
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if i understand right, if the color scheme is dark the text is white or if the color scheme is light, the text is black.
Is there a way to apply a color to the text ?
I found that ZStyle can change the color of the text
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Okay! I put up 2 files-
1. the icon theme
2. color scheme addons
3. Title bar chain, Metallic liquid, solar sun, by sunday.
direct links
http://www.zaurusthemes.org/content/zaurus...xxx_1.0_arm.zip (http://www.zaurusthemes.org/content/zaurus-icons-kreski-lines-cxxxx_1.0_arm.zip)
http://www.zaurusthemes.org/content/cacko1...xxx_1.0_arm.zip (http://www.zaurusthemes.org/content/cacko123-icons-kreski-cxxxx_1.0_arm.zip)
let me know how it goes.
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Okay! I put up 2 files-
1. the icon theme
2. color scheme addons
3. Title bar chain, Metallic liquid, solar sun, by sunday.
direct links
http://www.zaurusthemes.org/content/dark-scheme-v1.zip (http://www.zaurusthemes.org/content/dark-scheme-v1.zip)
http://www.zaurusthemes.org/content/zaurus...xxx_1.0_arm.zip (http://www.zaurusthemes.org/content/zaurus-icons-kreski-lines-cxxxx_1.0_arm.zip)
let me know how it goes.
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Happy to report that they work wonderfully in Cacko and look beautiful. Thanks!
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they work on cacko>? .....you must of done it the hard way.
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Nope, I installed it normally from an SD card, with no special tricks. Not all of the icons were automagically changed for me, but that was expected and I just used icons from xtra. Everything works quite well, and my only complaint would be that the Connect/Disconnect in the Qtopia ("Start") menu are still the old style, and stand out. The card manager icon was changed to a CF card - I forget what it was before, but I use the CF slot for wireless, and only have an SD card. Not really even an annoyance, just interesting.
Two of the icons in xtra, xtra/gnome-mime-application-vnd, and....apparently the same icon again, xtra/gnome-mime-application-vnd, appear in the list but don't seem to actually have an image.
Screenshot attached.
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I may have to try this in Cacko later.
Presently, I'm using Cresho's "cacko123-icons-oslinux-cxxxx_1.0_arm" theme
BTW, here is a *.png of the card manager icon in cacko.
This is the correct image, but it's 64x64
I didn't think an icon in the taskbar would be 64x64
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I may have to try this in Cacko later.
Presently, I'm using Cresho's "cacko123-icons-oslinux-cxxxx_1.0_arm" theme
BTW, here is a *.png of the card manager icon in cacko.
This is the correct image, but it's 64x64
I didn't think an icon in the taskbar would be 64x64
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What's the icon name for that? And for the record, any idea what the Connect/Disconnect icons are called? I've tried to change various icons such as that before, but never could get it to work. To make this perfect I'd want to swap the CyrKeyboard and Pickboard icons, replace the Connect/Disconnect icons, and swap the tray icons with more decent ones. (Not a request for Cresho, a question of where the actual icons are stored and if it's possible to change them manually..but I'm getting off-topic here.)
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That icon above is actually called qtsamba.png
It's the wrong one, here's the correct one, it's called myzaurus.png [32x32]
connect and disconnect icons are located in opt/QtPalmtop/pics/netmon/
The attached icons have their respective filenames, if you right-click them and save as, the filename should appear.
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That icon above is actually called qtsamba.png
It's the wrong one, here's the correct one, it's called myzaurus.png [32x32]
connect and disconnect icons are located in opt/QtPalmtop/pics/netmon/
The attached icons have their respective filenames, if you right-click them and save as, the filename should appear.
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Nope, the forum conveniently renames them. No worries though. I'll figure out the other and stop dragging this thing off-topic.
Again, a wonderful theme, Cresho!
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Nope, the forum conveniently renames them. No worries though.
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It must only retain the correct filename when the image files are too large to post and your'e taken to a new page when you click the thumbnail. The image on the new page usually has the correct filename.
My last off topic post also
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Im working on the cacko kriski lines. I am also making a version 2 of the color themes. I am almost done with the new taskbar and scrollbar/buttons look. I will be delayed because I seriously accidently deleted my hardrive without backing my stuff up....basically my life. and now using "getdataback fat version" software usb to cacko rom trying to recover my lost files-which will be about 6 hours.
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Just finished the cacko 1.23 kreski lines.
http://www.zaurusthemes.org/content/cacko1...xxx_1.0_arm.zip (http://www.zaurusthemes.org/content/cacko123-icons-kreski-cxxxx_1.0_arm.zip)
ill be updating the dark color schemes later and will put up the new addons for the taskbar and scrollbars as well.
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Installed the addonn's for the dark theme and .... WOW ! took my breath away - its THAT beautiful.
Great JOB. I never realized these themes designing could go to such levels of finesse and finish.
Man, I am in love with my Zaurus once again - this time because of the sexy looks of my dark themes desktop
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Installed the addonn's for the dark theme and .... WOW ! took my breath away - its THAT beautiful.
Great JOB. I never realized these themes designing could go to such levels of finesse and finish.
Man, I am in love with my Zaurus once again - this time because of the sexy looks of my dark themes desktop
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thanks. Im having a little trouble with the buttons. That wont be out for a while.
Version 3 fixes some odd color problems. just uninstall previous one and install this one.
here is the version 3 from zaurusthemes.org [a href=\"http://www.zaurusthemes.org/content/zaurus-appearance-addon-v3_arm.zip]http://www.zaurusthemes.org/content/zaurus...ddon-v3_arm.zip[/url]