New Features for the Themesite

[ZincAlloy]

it would be more useful if one could sort themes by rating.

[GeorgeT]

I would like to be able to delete a theme I uploaded once I have created a revised version of it.

[ZincAlloy]

Another one down. :-)

Users can now update their themes, if they submit a theme with the same name, author,email and lcdsize. The old one gets hidden when the uploader verifies the email.

[Llorean]

it would be more useful if one could sort themes by rating.

Not really - rating would still be entirely meaningless / contextless.

[JdGordon]

but they always are... so drop the argument please.

[Llorean]

Actually, ratings can be made useful with context (for example - Netflix uses similarity in users ratings of things they've both rated to extrapolate how one user would like things similar users have rated but they haven't yet). So no, they aren't always contextless.

But my point was "as long as there's no context, there's really no benefit in caring about them enough to try to put in efforts to avoid people manipulating them, since they have no meaning anyway."

[AlexP]

But my point was "as long as there's no context, there's really no benefit in caring about them enough to try to put in efforts to avoid people manipulating them, since they have no meaning anyway."

Lots of people do like to use them though, regardless of whether they are theoretically useful or not, and I think it'd be useful to put in some simple anti-manipulation steps if it is not too difficult.  It isn't an area to waste too much time on though.

[Biont]

What bugs me is that devices with the same screen size share the same themes atm.

I made a touchscreen theme for Cowon D2 and it also shows up for the iPod Video, on which it can't be used (and I *hope* that's the reason for the terribly low rating )

I know the screen size thing has worked good for quite some time, but in this particular case, it only causes confusion...

[GodEater]

Why can't it be used on the iPod?

[Biont]

Well, it *can* be used as in "it works" (at least I think so)

It's just that it doesn't make much sense to use a touchscreen theme on a non-touch device

[GodEater]

Some people might like it though. People are weird.

So long as they work on a device, I see no reason not to list them across multiple DAPs.

[Biont]

I wouldn't want to stop iPod users from using my theme, but just listing it in the iPod Video section suggests that it was made specifically for the the iPod, which it absolutely isn't.

And I don't want to have iPod users complaining about a Cowon D2 theme because half of the stuff mentioned in the decription does not work.

I need to update the theme anyway, now that that's possible without too much struggle, so I might edit the description so that it is clear that the theme is designed for touch screens. But then again, it sounds stupid to list a theme on the iPod Video site, which says "Don't use this on your iPod unless you really really need to"

hm...

(EDIT: WTF....now there are 50 votes instead of 5. How on earth did that happen?)

[Domonoky]

Please only suggest new features (or bug fixes) here.

Please do not clutter this thread with discussion if a feature makes sense for you or not.
Only those people really doing the work are allowed to decide if we implement a feature or not :-)

EDIT:
Another feature in. Sorting by Submitted time, Name, Author, Ranking, and Download count. :-)

[epithetless]

What bugs me is that devices with the same screen size share the same themes atm.

I think this comment needs to be revisited. Even though it is the case that Biont's D2 theme technically loads on the iPod Video, there are currently several instances where a theme shared between different devices' theme sites do not actually work on every device they appear for. Take the iriver H120 themes page, for instance: Despite the H120 being a black-and-white target with a screen size of 160x128 pixels, the page lists four themes made for color targets (Autobot Glass v1.4, UniCatcherv32, simple, and Simple Green), one of which isn't even the correct screen size (UniCatcherv32 is 220x176 pixels).

Would you say this qualifies as a bug, Domonoky? I can list more instances like this if it helps...

[audio-i]

Another one down. :-)

Users can now update their themes, if they submit a theme with the same name, author,email and lcdsize. The old one gets hidden when the uploader verifies the email.

Thanks for this long awaited features. One thing though, I just updated my AW140 theme (iPod Photo) and the download counter was reset to zero... perhaps it's intended to work like that (?), I think it would be better if the download stats history wouldn't be erased