ONGOING DEFAULT THEME CONTEST!!!

[Llorean]

Well, you said the *text* looks too small, which suggests a problem with the font size, not the image itself, so i thought you were trying to re-start the font choice debate.

[DancemasterGlenn]

Well, anyone could have clicked the picture and seen the clear-as-day full size picture, I think it made more sense to have it scaled the way it was so it doesn't take up as much space on the page. And it without question looked worlds better than the ipod vision theme that was there previously... I dunno. I think the picture looks really nice, I don't see any reason to change it to a different port's screenshot.

[NicolasP]

I have finally committed the improved gigabeat version !

[AlexP]

Improved?  That is rather objective    The font was too small before IMO!

Anyway, lets not open that argument again, I don't use it anyway and I'm just glad to have a decent default theme

[linuxstb]

I also preferred the font as it was originally committed, rather than this change.  Reading back through this thread a few pages, all the comments seem to be saying that a bigger font is needed for the GB, not a smaller one...

EDIT: I've been re-reading the pages more carefully, and I take that back - some people wanted it smaller, some larger...  I guess I'm just a little annoyed that changes to SVN were hidden in a forum thread, rather than discussed in the usual places.

[pixelma]

Just had another try on the m:robe100 port and posted the result to the cabbiev2 tracker task (FS#8443). The details are explained there but I'd also welcome comments here, especially by the contributors and m:robe 100 owners.

[ZincAlloy]

good job! looks nice.

[joey1]

Hi guys i found something that i think may need fixing..
correct me if i am wrong but when i go to Settings>Sound Settings i see the Equalizer icon has a pink line under it. I don't think that is meant to be there..
It looks as if it was meant to be transparent but isn't the right color
Keep up the awesome work Rockbox team!!!

[crash91]

 
This is exactly what i found yesterday, i can comfirm this, all that needs to be done is correct the color, it seems like antialiasing was left on by mistake.

[pixelma]

This is exactly what i found yesterday, i can comfirm this, all that needs to be done is correct the color, it seems like antialiasing was left on by mistake.

Fixed.

Something else:
While working on the m:robe 100 port, I compared the other 160x128 versions (greyscale and colour) and noticed that the greyscale one is quite different from the colour one (not as "3D" and obviously slightly bigger icons, see comparison of all three in the tracker). There is also one, I think, important problem with the greyscale menu backdrop since it uses black in some parts, it makes the end of long lines in this spot unreadable.

I have some ideas how to make the greyscale port more in line with the other 160x128 versions, are there any objections? Don't want to offend one, so I guess the way to go is make the graphics and post the result in form of a screenshot here, or in the tracker or wiki...?

By the way, I also figured out what the problem with the greyscale vol-09 icon is... The vol-08 one should actually be the -09 one (the "above line level, expect clipping" icon, full triangle with exclamation mark). And currently there is no "0dB" icon (full triangle, without exclamation mark) which only ever shows at exact 0dB, line level, that should be vol-08. It is done this way in the colour versions with a full yellow triangle for 0dB which turns red if going above line level. In the greyscale version vol-07 is now used for 0db because it's the second to last definition in the conditional and I was asked recently why the volume never turns "full" on the H100 which doesn't go above 0dB...

[yapper]

I have some ideas how to make the greyscale port more in line with the other 160x128 versions, are there any objections?
...
In the greyscale version vol-07 is now used for 0db because it's the second to last definition in the conditional and I was asked recently why the volume never turns "full" on the H100 which doesn't go above 0dB...

I have no objections. Somewhere way back in this thread I actually requested that someone improve my crude graphics  

Good point about the volume icons - I only tested on an iPod, which goes to +6dB, so I didn't experience the 'lack of a full icon' phenomena.

[pixelma]

Just committed a first cleanup of the cabbiev2 in svn (mainly deleting unused files, renaming for consistency etc., the commit message explains it) - one thing was also the vol-8 and vol-9 issue in the greyscale version where I only supplied a "full" image without exclamation mark but no visual changes to the icons themselves for now.

The next step is the greyscale menu background which I prepared and would like some feedback before a commit (will attach the bitmaps to the tracker entry, FS#8443). The size of the logo is now the same as in the 160x128 colour version (the mini's scaled accordingly) and much lighter. I made it as light as I thought was necessary to not make reading too difficult on my M5 which has a slightly brighter backlight than the H100. I had the possibility to watch it on an Ipod Mini too where the lightgrey is unfortunately very bright but I'd prefer that to "too dark" and don't want to break consistency because of that (the colour versions are also not handled differently just because the one or other display might show the colours or contrast differently). Opinions?
Edit:

New greyscale wps versions now available in the tracker too (including screenshots). I explained the most things there, just forgot to mention that the volume icons are now mostly dark grey (and a bit of light reflections) and the last one for above 0dB is more black (still a bit 3D-ish) - but I kept the exclamation mark because the difference was not too visible on my M5. As above I'm asking for opinions, maybe someone (ZincAlloy?) could also answer  the question about the placement of the Rockbox logo in the menu background, that yapper asked in the tracker...

[ZincAlloy]

looks good.
I usually place the menu screen logo so that the bottom of the "R" aligns with the wps screen icons (which probably wouldn't look good in this case).

[Idokras]

I'm using the 2007-10-24 build for my 5G ipod video because of the harddisc issue...any newer build has it rattling non-stop.

The problem is, I can't use the cabbiev2 theme with it - the menus look ok when I choose it, but the playing screen isn't showing the theme. Simply copying the necessary files from a newer build doesn't work. Is there any way to implement it? I'd really love to use it as it's by far the cleanest and best looking one.

Thanks for any help!

[hhannah]

I guess the problem with your version would be the album art displaying, so you would have to remove the AA instructions and conditionals, making it work always as it does in the no AA case (text lines centered).

Just in case you want to give it a try, the r16507 (and probably other versions, but that is one I'm sure of) didn't have mayor hard disk spinning problems, and do support cabbie2 (displaying AA)