How to actually add themes to rockbox

[stickris]

I cant actually find anything which gives me a step by step or definate procedure for adding a theme, and I've spend the last hour or so adding files here and there to see if they show up on the player to no avail.
I'm using OS X, its an Iriver H10 (20GB) and I want to add this theme: BlackGlass AA50 (fourth one along on here http://www.rockbox-themes.org/index.php?res=160x128x16 ) .

I've read things saying 'extract/expand into the root of the player.  This is a screenshot of what I get on OS X when I look at what I've downloaded.  
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l246/stickris/rockboxstuff.jpg
I'm not sure if its different in windows and comes zipped.  And where is the root of the player?  Is this .rockbox, the folder that .rockbox is in or somewhere else?  I have tried copying the BlackGlass AA50 folder into both these places and nothing has showed up on the player.

Basicaly... what goes where?  I understand that this is a pretty nooby question, but I just cant figure it out.

[Domonoky]

As far as i know, this is the fault of mac osx and its unpacker.
Try to download the zip in a way, its not automatically unpacked, (maybe with save as? ) and use another unpacker than the builtin one. Then you should be able to just unpack this zip to your player.

The other way is, to use rbutil (see in the wiki) which can download and install the themes for you.

[stickris]

Thanks, that got it downloaded as a zip (using the first method), however I still cant get it to appear on rockbox.  Am I unpacking it into the H10 or the rockbox folder on it?

[Febs]

Thanks, that got it downloaded as a zip (using the first method), however I still cant get it to appear on rockbox.  Am I unpacking it into the H10 or the rockbox folder on it?

You should be unzipping it directly to the root of the player, which means it should be unzipped to the base folder and not to any other folder on the disk.

I don't use OS X, but I remember from past threads that people who have had difficulty when its native unzip utility had better luck with a program called Onyx.  Try searching the forums for that term.

[stickris]

Its alright, got it working with rbutil.  They went straight on.  Thanks for the help.  For future reference for other less experienced people trying this, It might be a good idea if a little paragraph was put at the top of the themes page explaining how to get them on the player.  

[MarcGuay]

Its alright, got it working with rbutil.  They went straight on.  Thanks for the help.  For future reference for other less experienced people trying this, It might be a good idea if a little paragraph was put at the top of the themes page explaining how to get them on the player.  

Why not give a little something back to the community and do it yourself?

[ZincAlloy]

I don't use OS X, but I remember from past threads that people who have had difficulty when its native unzip utility had better luck with a program called Onyx.  Try searching the forums for that term.

the unzip utility isn't the problem. the problem is Finder. OSX doesn't merge folder structures - it replaces the old folder structures with the new one. consequently the unzippers rename the unzipped .rockbox file to .rockbox.2 or something similar.
.rockbox is hidden in OSX, btw. file names starting with a dot are reserved for system files. There's no option in GUI that allows for displaying hidden files. There are software tools that can make OSX change that behaviour (like Tinker Tool for instance) - it can also be accomplished by command line - what a p.i.t.a....

[stickris]

I would write a paragraph, but I've got a feeling that I've just been incredibly stupid and there's probably an easy fix, which some more accomplished Mac user would soon point out.

Just for future reference, the command line your looking for is:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles ON

which you type into the Terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal) and then force quit the finder,  the hidden dot files are revealed.  However this also reveals all the OS X system files so people doing this should be careful not to delete any causing a potentially serious bugger up.  To change it back, replace the ON with OFF and force quit again.

[MarcGuay]

I would write a paragraph, but I've got a feeling that I've just been incredibly stupid and there's probably an easy fix, which some more accomplished Mac user would soon point out.

Just for future reference, the command line your looking for is:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles ON

which you type into the Terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal) and then force quit the finder,  the hidden dot files are revealed.  However this also reveals all the OS X system files so people doing this should be careful not to delete any causing a potentially serious bugger up.  To change it back, replace the ON with OFF and force quit again.

That doesn't sound so stupid to me.  

[Philip]

wouldn't the easiest answer be that

the single .bmp file that is the backdrop goes in the backdrops folder
the .fnt file (if present) goes into the fonts folder
the .cfg file goes in the themes folder
the .wps file and the directory of the same name go in the wps folder

all the folder above are in .rockbox

there is no need to download any other software (unless mac OSX doesn't support drag and drop?? (never used it))

[Chronon]

Well, that involves a bunch of unnecessary steps.  A properly packaged theme already has all of those resources in the properly named subdirectories of a directory named .rockbox.  There's no need to drill down and take out the components.  

If you inspect the contents of the .rockbox directory on your player and the contents of a theme archive it should be pretty clear what goes where.