ONGOING DEFAULT THEME CONTEST!!!

[crzyboyster]

Let's just reflect on this, ZincAlloy first "submitted" this theme onto this thread on December 03, 2007. Today is December 09, 2007. We spanned 11 pages of forum posts and are done with the majority of the ports of the theme. We have come a long way, folks!

[yapper]

I've just noticed a small bug in the Next track tag used when there is no album art. %fn is used and of course it should be %Fn. This is probably in ZincAlloy's code, and probably in others who copied it (like me).

I've fixed the greyscale version (and added a playlist indicator):
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WpsIriverH100#MarkFawcus

[ZincAlloy]

Updated the h300 version:



displays playlist position now.

edit: fixed the %fn part as well. thank you, yapper!

whoops.. but messed up the backdrop when fixing a minor graphic error on the progress bar.

.... ok. fixed.

[crzyboyster]

Sorry, I can no longer help with porting this this theme to the iPod Video  

[ZincAlloy]

here's some graphics for the ipod video for a start. maybe somebody else with an ipod video or windows can help out (sorry, but I'm on a mac and can't run the simulator )

http://www.naturalbornyoers.com/formpics/ipodvideo.psd

[Llorean]

The simulators should compile and work on the mac just fine.

[yapper]

One possible way to include a numeric volume indication without drastically altering the design would be to alternate the playlist position and the volume, centred beneath the progress bar, e.g.:

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%al %pc%ac%pp of %pe%ar%pr ;%al %pc%ac%pvdB%ar%pr

[Llorean]

Why not alternate the "Repeat" and "Shuffle" icons to free up more space then? Maybe even "Repeat" "Shuffle" and "Play/Pause"? Surely these three, unlike volume, represent things that a user doesn't need explicit feedback on. Changing Shuffle and Repeat modes is done via a menu that shows you your option, so you know what you've set it to anyway at the time, and don't need precise details or fine grained adjustment. And Play/Pause you can hear, as i said before.

Meanwhile with volume, especially with controls like the scrollwheel rather than discrete controls like the buttons on the side of the Gigabeat, it could be quite frustrating to have the explicit volume display disappear every few seconds.

[crzyboyster]

Well, some people don't approve of alternating sublines, but of course, you could potentially squeeze anything into an alternating subline.

[yapper]

Freeing up space isn't the real problem, more that the numeric volume is restricted to appearing on one of the "text lines", rather than being a graphic. The graphics on the greyscale port use what would equate to text lines 10 and 10.5.  I briefly experimented with dropping the numeric volume in the space currently occupied by the graphic volume, but it sits too high. Of course, altering the font size might allow a better fit, but would also mean other correction being needed.

Another alternative is to leave the volume as a graphic, and use the Context menu to access the Volume menu in all it's numeric glory when a precise volume setting is needed.

[LambdaCalculus]

Just tried the Cabbie theme on my c240... looks really nice! Great work, guys!

[saratoga]

I think we need someone like senab to do the remaining (and very crucial) ipod 5g port. I will do it, but their results will probably come out better.  I mean, we need a good ipod 5g port as we have SO many ipod video users out there (the overwhelming majority). What do you guys think?

I don't see why.  I did the original Cabbie port to the Video and its not very hard.  Its just the gigabeat with the screen rotated 90 degrees, so you just need to rearrange things.  If no one gets a chance, it'll do it next week when I have some free time.

[psycho_maniac]

Just curious at what happened to people wanting the Cabbie theme to be the default? Not enough support and this one is more "flashy"? Its nice having two or more players in front of you looking at the same theme.

[ZincAlloy]

Judging by the massive feedback, enthusiasm and number of ports caused by Cabbie 2.0 - yes. Just look how far we have come in just one week.

[GodEater]

I think we need someone like senab to do the remaining (and very crucial) ipod 5g port. I will do it, but their results will probably come out better.  I mean, we need a good ipod 5g port as we have SO many ipod video users out there (the overwhelming majority). What do you guys think?

Also, senab stated in another post somewhere recently that he's not interested in licensing his work as Creative Commons. Personally that means to me he should be the last person contributing to this if it's going to make it as the default Rockbox theme. I respect his decision to use whatever license he likes of course - but having a non-CC licensed theme as the default in Rockbox is just plain wrong in my opinion.