new default theme concept.

[major_works]

176x220 (e200):

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WpsSansaE200#Ultima_v1_0

Denny:

There seems to be a problem with the Sansa download... FYI. I'd like to give it a try.

[denny]

176x220 (e200):

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WpsSansaE200#Ultima_v1_0

Denny:

There seems to be a problem with the Sansa download... FYI. I'd like to give it a try.

Its fixed now, I screwed up with linking to the file in the wiki.

cheers.

[major_works]

Thanks, Denny...

[Mad Cow]

I love the gigabeat version, finally a theme that uses a nice, big font but also looks good and shows a good amount of playback info. Looks even better with the Silk 18px icon set.

[Yotto]

Okay, I've had it installed for 10 minutes and I must say I love this theme.

However I would make one small change that won't change the look AT ALL but will really help a lot in customization.  Your battery and HDD icons don't have any transparent pixels for the background, meaning a customizer cannot simply drop a new background image in and have it work perfectly.  I looked at the icons, and there may be some loss of dithering but I haven't had time to really look a lot.

[denny]

Well i'm back from my break and straight into uni revision. This projects on hold for now but i'll get back to it.

re transparency: I'll have a go at making all images have a transparent background when possible. The problem here is the progress bar does not use transparency and requires the dithering for the glow effect. It may have to be re done but I'm not sure if it would be worth it... surely anyone customising this theme would use an alternative progress bar.

[lights0ut]

First of all, thanks for all the work you've done on this; this theme is very cool. I've been using the gigabeat version a lot as it's the only theme with a fairly large font (making my own soon, by the way) I've also tried the iPod version and I like it a lot too. Overall, the theme is solid, clear, easy to read and use, and looks good to boot.
Good luck with university, can't wait to see the finished work.

About the transparency with the progress bar, I think the goal with the default theme is to make it very easy/appealing, if your goal is to make it so users can switch backdrops to something of their own choosing (which is a great idea for a default theme, I might add) shouldn't it not involve changing the .wps?, some users would find this task (however easy it is) a bit of a hindrance when it comes to customizing the backdrop.

[Yotto]

To be honest, I wasn't even thinking of the progress bar and didn't notice the glow effect (though one of the first things I did was make the bar 6 pixels high and solid white to make it more easy to see on my iPod 5G with the backlight off).

Like evilg123, I think a major boon to the default theme would be the ability to just drop a new image in as the background and have all icons not have some of the old background left over.  Now, obviously, if the color is much different than the blue you'll have jaggies so it's not ideal, but as a new user the first thing I did was start playing around with the background image on WPSs I downloaded, and if the default theme had looked good with a new backdrop I'd have been an extremely happy newbie.

[Angyman]

So... i posted that already as a kind of impression on how something like this could work... And i think for the default theme this could be a very user-friendly solution... (You need to press download your own)

http://rockthemes.free.fr/index.php

[denny]

Thanks for everyone's comments on this theme. Once I get back to working on it methinks I'll revise the progress bar and make it simpler. The Icons will definitely have jaggies on other non blue backdrops. This is unavoidable without sacrificing a smooth look on the standard backdrop. It could encourage customisers to edit/make icons  .

@ Angryman: That system looks really great but I cant see it as an option for a default theme since obviously a default has to come pre installed with every build.

[Yotto]

After using this theme for a couple weeks, I am finding the play/pause/ff/rw to be the only thing I miss.  I might fiddle to add it myself.  Other than that, I absolutely adore this theme.

[bluebrother]

I just looked in the WpsGallery, but I can't find a version for the ipod mini. Is that still in the works or have I overlooked something?

[denny]

After using this theme for a couple weeks, I am finding the play/pause/ff/rw to be the only thing I miss.  I might fiddle to add it myself.  Other than that, I absolutely adore this theme.

The play status icons will probably be implemented in the next revision when I get time for it, as well as other requests. Thanks for the comments .

I just looked in the WpsGallery, but I can't find a version for the ipod mini. Is that still in the works or have I overlooked something?

The ipod mini version is nearly complete but I don't want to upload it until I revise it along with all the other versions. That could be some time as I wont be able to work on this properly in the next couple of weeks.

Cheers,
Denny.

[ryran]

Hey Denny... I just now finally took a sec to try out this theme on my ipod video and I gotta say, I absolutely love it. I immediately noticed that the hold bmp had a pink outline however--somehow it ended up with a darker pink color around the edges instead of 255,0,255. I fixed it and replaced the zip in the ipod 5g wps gallery on the wiki..but thought I'd bring it to your attention in case it's the same for other targets.

If you don't respond and I have some time tomorrow, I might have a look and fix them if necessary, but uh... no promises. Thanks for the wonderful work.

[denny]

Hey, thanks for noticing that and fixing it . I'm not sure how that happened.

My work on this project has stumbled again and I don't know when I will be able to work on it again. I'm away for a week then a month with plenty of work in-between. Hopefully I'll get back to it later in the summer.