320x240 iPod Video Theme (FSM) - Feedback Request

[jtrodriguez]

http://themes.rockbox.org/index.php?themeid=715&target=ipodvideo





Accessed on Pause so you can view details and cycle through your playlist with FF/REW



Any suggestions/comments are appreciated.

[audio-i]

Very nice theme! The colors it uses, the icons and buttons, the no AA image and all the graphics in general are very cool and original    I made a little modification for my use to the SBS and backdrop, leaving the WPS's upper and lower part to show also in the menus screens, putting a reduced monster image in the info area.

Accessed on Pause so you can view details and cycle through your playlist with FF/REW

As a purely personal opinion, I don't like to have to pause tracks to do anything, so this change is not very functional for me.
Additionally, although I think it's great that the new playlist viewer functionality is available for WPS and admitting it may come handy in some cases, I prefer in general to go to the "view current playlist" screen, even if it's 3 clicks away, because when I view playlists, it's usually because I want to move tracks around, see/skip/go back several tracks ahead/back.

[seani]

Thumbs up - subtle and effective use of colour, plenty of information, but easy to read.

[jtrodriguez]

As a purely personal opinion, I don't like to have to pause tracks to do anything, so this change is not very functional for me.
Additionally, although I think it's great that the new playlist viewer functionality is available for WPS and admitting it may come handy in some cases, I prefer in general to go to the "view current playlist" screen, even if it's 3 clicks away, because when I view playlists, it's usually because I want to move tracks around, see/skip/go back several tracks ahead/back.

Wish I could theme the "view current playlist" screen

You probably noticed it but just in case not you can swap with that playlist screen to be viewed on hold or removed completely if you wish with just a couple of #'s

Thumbs up - subtle and effective use of colour, plenty of information, but easy to read.

Thanks much

[Chronon]

The "pirate" fish skeleton is a nice touch.   

[[Saint]]

...and all the graphics in general are very cool and original...

Well, not quite...
I did some quick Googling for "FSM" as I was pretty-damn-sure I had seen this image before (lord knows where I saw it though), and I didn't really turn up anything in the sense of licensing but mind you I didn't look too hard.
Did you obtain the permission of the artist to use this graphic?
Or check if this permission was needed?


[St.]

[jtrodriguez]

...and all the graphics in general are very cool and original...

Well, not quite...
I did some quick Googling for "FSM" as I was pretty-damn-sure I had seen this image before (lord knows where I saw it though), and I didn't really turn up anything in the sense of licensing but mind you I didn't look too hard.
Did you obtain the permission of the artist to use this graphic?
Or check if this permission was needed?


[St.]

He doesn't have a license on it... just a statement that says you can do what you want with it commercial or non-commercial.... pretty funny you say lord knows if you don't know the story behind it then read this http://www.venganza.org/about/open-letter/

[pixelma]

I saw the image in the old WPS gallery, [St.] probably too. The image is taken down now even in the graveyard pages but the description of the theme is still there and the wiki user who added it has a familiar name.

What's bothering me a bit is that you stated there in the old version that your theme is CC-BY-NC-SA and this is what I find when I search around venganza.org for a license. The additional "non-commercial" clause in there is not compatible with the GPL and the CC-by-SA which we require for themes now.

I am not a lawyer and don't want to be the meanie but the license question should be cleared up in my opinion.

[jtrodriguez]

I saw the image in the old WPS gallery, [St.] probably too. The image is taken down now even in the graveyard pages but the description of the theme is still there and the wiki user who added it has a familiar name.

What's bothering me a bit is that you stated there in the old version that your theme is CC-BY-NC-SA and this is what I find when I search around venganza.org for a license. The additional "non-commercial" clause in there is not compatible with the GPL and the CC-by-SA which we require for themes now.

I am not a lawyer and don't want to be the meanie but the license question should be cleared up in my opinion.

Niklas Jansson "Touched By His Noodly Appendage"
http://itchstudios.com/psg/   " Bottom of the page"

"
FSM - The Flying Spaghetti Monster which I painted (yeah yeah, Michelangelo too) is pretty much free to use for press and such as far as I'm concerned. Unfortunately I do not have a high resolution version of this painting!
"
I listed it originally a couple years ago as NC because I thought it was a product of Venganza.. but its not its an image painted by Niklas Jansson.