several questions

[checker]

#1:  Is there a way i can pack multiple variations of a theme into the same .zip on the theme site?  for example, create a theme with red icons, offer a variation of blue icons, and put the two .wps files and extra images in the same zip?  or is that not allowed by the uploader?

#2:  I see a post on making tags language friendly, but since that information is pulled from editable id3 tags is that worthwhile?  if so, how would i translate all of this:

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%al%s    %?ia<%ia|Artist Unknown>
%al%s    %?id<%id|Album Unknown>
%al%s    %?it<%it|Title Unknown>

%al%s    %?Ia<%Ia|Artist Unknown>
%al%s    %?Id<%Id|Album Unknown>
%al%s    %?It<%It|Title Unknown>

and what do you do for the word "of" between playlist numbers?

#3:  To write a custom status bar, i simply write a .wps then save it as a .sbs?  im only putting a screen-width progress bar, and then the information contained in the stock .sbs file, i just havent written a custom status bar yet.  [and this would mean that my wps is a ".wps", the status bar is a ".sbs", the theme is a ".cfg", and i disable the .sbs on the .wps still using the %wd tag???...]

#4:  Feedback please    first target is the gigabeat, then i hope to spread this theme to other players.  first shows theme in grey/red with no album art, second is grey/blue with aa, third is a dark verison i haven't finalized yet. (monospace font temporary and squares on the sides for shuffle and repeat)
   

[JdGordon]

1) I believe the theme site wont let you do that, but it is a planned feature (I tinhk)
2) The strings that are translatable come from the internal language files. http://svn.rockbox.org/viewvc.cgi/trunk/apps/lang/english.lang?view=markup is the english language file which you'd use. any string in that file can be displayed in a skin. look for the <source></source> blocks.
3) a .sbs is just a renamed .wps but there are slight differences. The main one is that the sbs must have a %Vi viewport specified (Check the CustomWPS wiki page)

the sbs is called the "base skin" not statusbar and yes, %wd will disable it in the wps