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Problem with Asian clip+ theme

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shuttle:
http://themes.rockbox.org/index.php?themeid=1232&target=sansaclipplus

I installed the theme on my Sansa Clip+ and I have the 3 required fonts in the font folder, but the clock is not displaying properly. The font used for the clock is too big.

Anybody knowns what I should do?

audio-i:
I gave the theme a look, and there seems to be a problem indeed. The author mentions that the 06-Tiny font is needed, but then he doesn't load it, and of course he doesn't use it. That's the font that seems to be right for the clock (I tried it and it works), but the problem is that he uses three fonts, and using the right font for the clock implies correcting the fonts used in other places (viewports), which... I'm not really willing to do, sorry  :-\  He also loads the same font twice with different number identifiers, so fonts 1 and 2 are the same.

Fixing this would need to replace, on every pertinent viewport of every screen (wps, fms, sbs), font #2 with font #1 (or leave the font parameter empty), and then replacing font #2 loading with 06-Tiny.fnt (instead of the current 14-Rockbox-Mix.fnt), then specifying font #2 for the clock viewport (of course all that would have to be tested, there could be something else)

The funny thing is that no one said anything before and the theme is pretty well rated, so it looks like you must be wrong for not liking it as it is now  ;)

Edit:
A quick (but maybe not so pretty) fix:

Put this line (wps, fms, sbs files)

--- Code: ---%Fl(4,06-Tiny.fnt,11)
--- End code ---
after

--- Code: ---%Fl(3,08-Namil.fnt,11)
--- End code ---

and replace

--- Code: ---%V(-25,10,25,7,1)
%ar%cl:%cM
--- End code ---
with

--- Code: ---%V(-25,10,25,7,4)
%ar%cl:%cM
--- End code ---

spike66:

--- Quote from: audio-i on August 11, 2011, 01:29:20 AM ---The funny thing is that no one said anything before and the theme is pretty well rated, so it looks like you must be wrong for not liking it as it is now  ;)

--- End quote ---

I don't mean to offend anyone, specially knowing that an effort has been put into improving the themesite, but... the theme rating system (as a quality index for users, or as feedback for themers)... kinda sucks  :-\

1. It's not guaranteed that a single person can only rate each theme once, which is potentially a playground for trolls (and I've seen some real cases on the themesite)

2. The majority of the people tend to give ratings so that the final average result will have the value they consider correct, e.g. if a theme has currently 10 stars resulting from 5 ratings, and the person considers 8 stars is the adequate  for that theme, he will rate it with a zero (or perhaps more zeros if he can) so that the final average decreases.
As an example, that's one of the reasons why youtube changed it's rating system. People tend to give either zeros or tens.

I wish I could do more that just give my opinion, but unfortunately I have no idea how to implement or modify websites.
Anyway, my suggestion is to adopt what many already have adopted, which is a "Likes" system, through something like facebook, so that it's better controlled that a single person can only give a single rating to each theme, and it would just work so that themes with the most "Likes" would be the themes users prefer or find better.

An index that I find very useful is the total downloads. It tells what people like to download (although of course they might end up not liking the downloaded themes after using them). The only problem with the total downloads is that of course, old themes will have a huge advantage over new themes; it would take years for a new theme to get close to the total downloads of an old theme.

It would be great to have something like "total downloads last week" or last two weeks. Of course this would mean having a much more complicated downloads number tracking system, and perhaps 7 or 14 additional memory fields for each theme. But being able to sort themes according to total downloads last week would be great.

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