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gnomacor:
In this round of Modifying A Theme I Like, I decided to go with AdwaitaPod. I didn't necessarily want to improve it, rather I wanted to use it as a base for my own theme, having the bases of many special features that I haven't begun to deal with. I always wanted to get a circular theme on Rockbox, and seeing it is possible to "cover" the album art with images I bit the bullet. At first I thought of making all the bars circular as well, but aside from it requiring me to create a truckload of bitmaps for each of them, there would be less place to put texts (text behaves badly when it's overlapping an image), so I shelved that idea for now.
Still I am honestly surprised how well this functions and how this hasn't been tried yet (at least those uploaded on the theme list). It offers a unique look based on a neutral theme of AdwaitaPod. The interesting thing here is that the cover art is slightly out of frame, which is somehow possible. This allows me to have more empty space as well as making it visually interesting.
So far I've only tackled the WPS screen to get the design concept right, but I do want to make it a full theme eventually. I'm uploading it to get feedbacks first. Please enjoy!
Note: If you're not using it with AdwaitaPod, make sure to use a light theme with pure white background, otherwise the background/text won't look correct.
Dook:
This is a masterful modification of adwaitapod! Visually this is a really unique theme, great to see you took advantage of the album art setup to have anti-aliasing on the circle (I think it really adds to the high-quality feeling of the theme.) It would be cool to have the progress bar circle the album art but that might be a bit hard to achieve given the scale. But all in all excited to see where this leads! If you used the skinned lists feature, you could probably achieve a circular menu of sorts (if you want any tips/pointers let me know)
gnomacor:
Thanks Dook, always appreciate your kind words.
I did consider a circular progress bar initially, but thought it would make the theme too big. Now that I got around to doing it, I managed to do it quite space-efficiently, but I'm kind of split on the design. Not as pretty as I hoped it would be, and too coarse for what it is. Gotta experiment more.
Meanwhile this version is out on the theme list so you can try it out and give your own opinions.
gnomacor:
Just an update: the scrollbar on the SBS screen has taken shape! (Click on the image to play GIF animation)
It took me quite a while just to come up with a concept that works within the restriction of the theme engine. I tried multiple times to reach for a non-existent scroll-location-as-percent tag, or even a total-list-size tag, which could have allowed me to implement much more elegant ideas. Still, I didn't want to see a bar tag that slices the bow vertically, I wanted something better looking. And even with the restrictions that I can't know where in the list I am, I think I've managed to come up with a usable and unique design.
Note that everything except the scrollbar is a placeholder. The scrollbar itself might change shape as well, but the general idea should be the same (I can't think of a better one yet).
The astute among you may realise what I've done here, but I'll explain what's happening when I get to release this version.
Dook:
--- Quote from: gnomacor on May 03, 2025, 12:02:44 PM ---Just an update: the scrollbar on the SBS screen has taken shape! (Click on the image to play GIF animation)
It took me quite a while just to come up with a concept that works within the restriction of the theme engine. I tried multiple times to reach for a non-existent scroll-location-as-percent tag, or even a total-list-size tag, which could have allowed me to implement much more elegant ideas. Still, I didn't want to see a bar tag that slices the bow vertically, I wanted something better looking. And even with the restrictions that I can't know where in the list I am, I think I've managed to come up with a usable and unique design.
Note that everything except the scrollbar is a placeholder. The scrollbar itself might change shape as well, but the general idea should be the same (I can't think of a better one yet).
The astute among you may realise what I've done here, but I'll explain what's happening when I get to release this version.
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Great to see more themes start to use this feature! Hit me up if you need any tips or information, I've been working on a standard method for making lists using that feature for about a year now. If you are copying Wavy's implementation, there is a far easier method that might make your life easier.
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