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MHael:
I've put together this mock up of a theme I'd like to make. Inspiration from the cabbiev2 theme, the prepod theme and the original apple theme. I'm also planning on using some code from the cabbie and prepod themes.


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Is its similarity to the apple 'now playing' screen a problem? I've used (I think) the same font as apple does, Myriad, it comes with Photoshop. I made all the icons myself.

Is it possible to apply text formatting to the font with rockbox? The playlist count, artist title, album, play time, time remaining are all bold and 24 pt (14 pix).The clock is 20.5 pt Normal. The next queued track is 17 pt, bold.

Will the HDD indicator flash so much as to be annoying?

BdN3504:
I think it's not OK to release a theme using myriad under the license required in the theme guidelines. you can use a font that is either released under the gpl, the license mentioned in the theme guidelines or simply one that already is contained in the rockbox fonts archive. You can also advise people to get the myriad font themselves, but releasing it with your theme poses a copyright violation AFAIK.

it's no major problem that your theme resembles another theme, as long as you've created all the graphics yourself.

if you want to have different fonts in your theme, you'd have to include a multifont patched build with that theme in the custom builds section of this forum (or somewhere else). The standard rockbox build, meaning unpatched current, daily and release, only supports two fonts: one defined by the user in the cfg file of the theme and the second is the system font (i don't recall what it's called, some of the devs will know, but i think it's a 10 point fixed font). on the other hand you can use the whole 16 bit rgb colour palette provided by your screen, so you might consider using that to your advance.

the hdd indicator activity depends on various settings, mainly the cache settings. there are several themes using the hdd indicator on my gigabeat and i haven't noticed it as being disturbing.

does the "volume progress bar" the volume levels?

PS: i don't like the shuffle icon, if i looked at the screen for the first time, i wouldn't understand it's representing shuffle. i'd use two crossed arrows, or some randomly ordered digits, or as in the fine amarok theme, a simple die.

MHael:
Ok, I found a similar font released under the GPL. It doesn't look as good, but it's not bad.
Font: http://www.dafont.com/bitstream-vera-sans.font?psize=xs&text=Santana+g

   

I wasn't asking if I could use multiple fonts, I was asking if I could apply formatting to the text, like this. I won't need to bold the text anymore because of the new font, but can I change the font size? Or would I need to use that patch and have two copies of the font in different sizes or use the system font?

Yes, while adjusting the volume the progress bar stops being the progress bar for the song and becomes a graphic indicator for the volume, the same as happens in the prepod theme. That's the plan, anyway.

The shuffle icon was supposed to be a spoon, as in mixing. I suppose it's better to just stick with standards. I've mimiced the apple shuffle icon and gone with crossing arrows, though I still made it from scratch myself.

BdN3504:
formatting text is only possible with the alignement tags, so bold or italic is not. fonts in rockbox cannot be changed in size once they are loaded, if you take a look at the font archive, you will notice the fonts in there are ordered by size.
--- Quote from: MHael on July 14, 2009, 12:31:00 PM ---would I need to use that patch and have two copies of the font in different sizes or use the system font?
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if you want to have more than one user-specified font and the standard system font, then yes, you have to create your own build including the multifont patch.

the new shuffle icon is better. you could depict a mixer rather than a spoon. Maybe that's a symbol easier to understand.

karashata:
Last I checked the multifont patch (here) needed a bit of work to function with the recent builds (and this was quite some time ago...) It appears nothing has changed since then (since the Flyspray task is closed that kinda makes sense...) Unless you're willing to do a little work to make the mulitfont patch work and compile your own build with it included, you probably shouldn't try to build your theme using multiple fonts (though you can use the built-in system font in your WPS along with whatever other font you choose.)

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