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Analog Cassete Deck Theme
RaiderX:
Antoher quality theme from PHK! Keep making these man, I love em!
seani:
Just popped this onto my landscaped GigaBeat and it looks terrific - absolutely nothing to quibble with from my POV.
spike66:
This is a very old thread, sorry about that, but decided to post here regarding this:
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That being said, the wiki galleries are going bye bye soon when the official theme site goes live. The graveyards I think can be left behind, but I would rather concentrate efforts on getting the gallery themes up and running.
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Does it mean the graveyard themes are going to the trash soon or are you going to keep them around for archival purposes?
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(taken from this thread http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=18633.msg135073#msg135073)
because although most of the themes in the graveyard do not work, it is possible to download them as they are, and fix them... for personal use. I rediscovered this theme there, and now I have a modified version in my iPod. I love it, I can't think of a better theme when listening to 80's oldies; yes I'm a nostalgic man, I know, but to the author of this theme, thanks, you've made a happy man very old ;) Hopefully you'll come back to license your themes. And hopefully the answer to KarlTPB's question will be "yes, they will be kept available"
audio-i:
I got an idea that I would like to check, because I'm of course very concerned about copyright infringements; honestly I don't see any issues in what I'm about to propose, but of course I'm no copyright expert at all. So here's the idea.
I also use a personal version of this theme. What I did was using the original graphics, but I completely rewrote the whole .wps code. If both files are compared, they have very little in common, basically forced by the use of viewports. Honestly I only used the original .wps code as reference for positioning. So what if I could upload to the wiki, where this theme is, the .cfg and .wps files I wrote. What people would have to do was downloading the original theme exactly as it is, and then replace those files with the ones I uploaded. Maybe I'm looking at it the wrong way, but regarding the perspective explained, isn't this sort of of like replacing a firmware? What do you guys think?
Part 2
To better simulate the tape's winding, I'm using two progress bars instead of one (one that "grows" on the left wheel during playback, and one that simultaneously "goes smaller" on the right wheel). For that I created, without using the original graphics, two progress bar images. Again, if you compare the files, they have very little in common (both are quite simple actually). And again, the only thing that would be necessary, is to download this two additional image files and put them in the appropiate folder.
Chronon:
I can kind of see where you're coming from. I think that in that case -- without packaging it with any of the original theme's resources -- what you're really publishing is kind of a generic theme that can be used with any images of the appropriate sizes. If an end user privately opts to use the images from the published theme this doesn't seem to represent any wrongdoing on your part.
To make things even safer, you could publish your theme with its own dummy images of the right size and maybe just containing a label for what they are intended to represent. Then you can post it as a separate theme and just point out that it's compatible with the images from this particular graveyard theme. In this way your theme would be a fully functional (if bland) theme.
I am also not an expert in these matters and I do not wish to steer the project unduly into grey waters. Any other thoughts about this?
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