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Release 3.0 and Themes
Llorean:
As many of you may be aware, we're working on trying to put together a 3.0 release again.
What I personally would like to see is that we include a small selection of themes for each target with the 3.0 download, so that people installing the "release" will have a few nice themes to choose from. Since this is my personal want, there's no guarantee this will happen, nor is there any plan for how (will they be in SVN, or just bundled in the .zip, or what).
But there are some key things that will need to be true no matter which way it might happen.
1) Your theme will need to work with SVN Rockbox.
2) Your theme will need to be released under a license that allows us to redistribute it. If we do include themes, we'll probably be picking them ourselves, and it will be much easier on our side if all themes come under the same license, so if you want to be extra sure you might consider the CC-by-SA license, which is popular. There is a good chance we'll frown on themes that have licenses disallowing modification and reuse.
So, while there's no guarantee we'll be including a selection of themes with 3.0, I'd very much like to, and even if we don't, you'll want your theme usable by 3.0 users, right? So here's the call to not only update your themes, but organize and clean the wiki pages they're on, because if we don't see your theme, easily spot a license, and easily spot that it's 3.0 ready, we can't decide it looks good enough to include.
Hweb21:
"a small selection of themes for each target"
So the theme doesn't have to be ported on every target to be selected?
Llorean:
The default theme is, in my opinion, the only one that needs to be cross target.
Other than that, I don't see any problem with having a unique set of themes for each target.
GodEater:
I agree, I think everyone involved in creating the Cabbie V2 theme which is now Rockbox's default can attest to how difficult it is to make a theme look consistent across all our targets. We wanted it done to improve the users first experience of Rockbox, but I think there's a strong argument for target specific themes to form part of this release.
shotofadds:
--- Quote from: Llorean on July 14, 2008, 09:06:08 PM ---2) Your theme will need to be released under a license that allows us to redistribute it.
--- End quote ---
I'd hope any released themes also have a license allowing future modification, in case of future WPS syntax changes, etc.
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