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JdGordon:
starting a new thread to talk about some changes I want to make to th cabbiev2 theme.
I want the changes for two reason:
1) the default theme should show off as much of the skinning possibilities as possible (to act as a bit of a demo for themeres)
2) the default theme on the mini is hard to read. i.e too much info on the small screen.

What I've done is slightly updated the classic_statusbar sbs to take over the list title and display it centered and bold, and have the current track info displaying as bold in the WPS.
This change obviously doesnt make sense for all targets, so if it get support which targets should it be changed for?

oh, this theme isnt on the themesite yet because the skin buffer isnt big enough for fonts on the mini2g yet  :/

Llorean:
I disagree about the "show off as much as possible" aspect.

I think though that there's no harm in showing off quite a bit in the default theme, as long as it never gets in the way of making it one of the most useful/usable themes we can provide.

That being said, I don't really see anything wrong with these changes, and would be for tweaking Cabbie in similar ways to show off some of these newer features on other targets as well.

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: JdGordon on March 03, 2010, 01:57:20 PM ---1) the default theme should show off as much of the skinning possibilities as possible
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I completely disagree here. The default theme should be what a default should be: a sane value suitable for most people. If we want a "show-off" theme we always can create such a theme and maintain it in svn along the default theme. Not sure if it's worth the effort though. Artists have made great themes in the past without such a "show-off" theme.


--- Quote ---2) the default theme on the mini is hard to read. i.e too much info on the small screen.
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I disagree again. I'm using the default cabbiev2 since quite a while on my mini and IMO its quite readable. The only thing I've changed is that I removed displaying of album art (as some of my music folders do include album art jpg files).


--- Quote ---What I've done is slightly updated the classic_statusbar sbs to take over the list title and display it centered and bold,
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Does this mean that there will always this "Rockbox" title, especially if in the file browser? I wouldn't like that: I want to see the current folder and always having a "Rockbox" title on the screen is simply waste.

JdGordon:

--- Quote from: bluebrother on March 03, 2010, 05:10:16 PM ---Does this mean that there will always this "Rockbox" title, especially if in the file browser? I wouldn't like that: I want to see the current folder and always having a "Rockbox" title on the screen is simply waste.

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obviously not, that would be bloody stupid

saratoga:
I would like to see the default theme updated.  It would be nice to have it show off multi-font for instance.

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