old theme, new looks & license

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akahhannah

Thanks for the ipod video theme.  Love it.

[jvhc]

Some of the labels seem extraneous but others seem necessary, in my opinion.  The volume, replaygain and battery labels all provide extra information that is not presented in the widget itself (and that I would not want to lose).

Actually I've just put it on my gigabeat, and yeah, it does look fine with the extra information. I thought it'd look too cluttered, but it looks great!

This should well be the default theme.......

Also, what's the default font for this theme? Because I think I put it on wrong or something, but its coming up with the wrong font... But I put it to jackash-16 and it looks pretty good.

[audio-i]

This should well be the default theme.......

I'm glad you liked it    ... and as much as I might like it too ... it probably shouldn't be the default theme, amongst other things, because it doesn't have a "Rockbox characteristic unique feel"... it has "different goals" than the default theme

Regarding the font, it uses helvR14.fnt ... I now realize I forgot to include it in the zip file (corrected by now)... thanks for the feedback!

[Chronon]

True, but you also have to port it to all possible screens.  I'm not sure how well the widgets will hold up on small monochrome screens.

[ZincAlloy]

This should well be the default theme.......

I'm glad you liked it    ... and as much as I might like it too ... it probably shouldn't be the default theme, amongst other things, because it doesn't have a "Rockbox characteristic unique feel"... it has "different goals" than the default theme

Regarding the font, it uses helvR14.fnt ... I now realize I forgot to include it in the zip file (corrected by now)... thanks for the feedback!

I think you shouldn't put fonts that are included in the fonts pack into your zip files.
HelvR14 has been renamed to 15-Adobe-Helvetica. You should use the new names from now on.

[karashata]

True, but you also have to port it to all possible screens.  I'm not sure how well the widgets will hold up on small monochrome screens.

Or small colour screens, for that matter...  The widgets would almost be unreadable on, say, the Nano's screen and smaller, or at least the text would be...

[pixelma]

I think you shouldn't put fonts that are included in the fonts pack into your zip files.

I would not include fonts that are in Rockbox's font package in a theme zip (actually I took them out of mine). The reason is that if the font changes, e.g. more glyphs are added or bugs fixed then people will install the old version of the font with the theme. Font changes don't happen very often but they happen.

HelvR14 has been renamed to 15-Adobe-Helvetica. You should use the new names from now on.

HelvR14 was renamed to 16-Adobe-Helvetica (which is why Jackash-16, or better 16-Jackash works for jvhc) - the 15-Adobe-Helvetica is the former helvR12.

All fonts are now named in a way to identify the whole height of it, and this number is the first part of the filename to sort the fonts by their size.

[ZincAlloy]

whoops, I mixed those up. sorry. thanks for the correction, pixelma!

[audio-i]

I would not include fonts that are in Rockbox's font package in a theme zip (actually I took them out of mine). The reason is that if the font changes, e.g. more glyphs are added or bugs fixed then people will install the old version of the font with the theme.

@ pixelma, thanks! that's a good reason for changing the zip files... will do!

@ karashata & Chronon, it's true, small color and B&W screens are particularly difficult to port for this theme, that's why I had to use unlabeled widgets for the former nano and mini versions. In fact, even for the new version for the Sansa and iPod photo ports, fitting the widgets AND the labels has been difficult, I'm not sure yet if all the 10 widgets will fit, or only 8 of them.

In the meantime, I ported the iPhone video's AW200 to the Photo / iRiver H300, it uses the same widget size that the Sansa and Photo arboxWidgets versions will use. Screenshot of the AW140 theme below (140x140 and 75x75 album art screenshots). The widgets are (obviously) smaller than in the Video and Gigabeat's versions, but the label's had to keep the same font size, so the proportion is quite different, I'd appreciate some feedback from a "fresh look" about if that proportion still looks OK