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Support and General Use => Theming and Appearance Customization => Topic started by: GigaG on October 14, 2021, 11:14:42 PM

Title: Is it at all possible to get an old theme back?
Post by: GigaG on October 14, 2021, 11:14:42 PM
I have a Sansa Clip Zip from maybe about 6-7 years ago, running Rockbox 3.11 with theme "ti83" by Nathan Korth. I unfortunately cannot seem to find this theme on the website today. Is there any way to get it back?
Title: Re: Is it at all possible to get an old theme back?
Post by: Frankenpod on October 14, 2021, 11:49:29 PM
So you still have the Clip Zip with this theme on it?

Can you not just copy the relevant theme files (cfg, wps, sbs) from it to the computer?
Title: Re: Is it at all possible to get an old theme back?
Post by: lebellium on December 05, 2021, 12:36:24 PM
I can't find it on the theme website either but I still have it on my computer and Clip Zip if someone needs it.

I don't know if the author deliberately removed it from the theme website. If you want to ask him : https://www.nkorth.com/
Title: Re: Is it at all possible to get an old theme back?
Post by: Frankenpod on December 05, 2021, 01:03:16 PM
It clearly stopped working some time ago (at least by 2014, according to the post below).

Does it have a permissive licence in it?  If so, it could presumably be updated/recreated.

https://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,48168.0.html
Title: Re: Is it at all possible to get an old theme back?
Post by: amachronic on December 05, 2021, 03:03:00 PM
According to the theme upload site (https://themes.rockbox.org/upload.php):
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In line with the spirit of Rockbox itself, all themes on this website are freely redistributable (in both modified and unmodified forms) without any restriction (e.g. commercial/non-commercial) on their use.
 
By uploading your theme to this site, you are agreeing to license your work under the following license:
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License

That's been there since 2009, according to the wayback machine. If it was uploaded after that time, I don't think there is an issue with re-uploading it.
Title: Re: Is it at all possible to get an old theme back?
Post by: lebellium on December 05, 2021, 03:19:04 PM
Hum I must be amnesic.

I actually already talked about this theme and issue back to 2014: https://www.rockbox.org/irc/log-20140421

I contacted the author on 21/04/2014:

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Hello there,

I wanted to know why your TI83 theme is not available anymore on the rockbox website?

Did you remove it intentionally?

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,48168.0.html suggests that it was no longer working. I can help you fixing it if necessary. I already fixed several themes here http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/board,24.0.html which were broken due to kugel’s commit http://git.rockbox.org/?p=rockbox.git;a=commit;h=4e1c690

Regards
Lebellium

His reply:
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Hi!
I guess I was too busy to figure out why the theme was broken. I haven't used my Sansa in a while.
It'd be awesome if you could help fix it! Thankfully, I still have the files https://www.dropbox.com/s/9dmi4j63fs71ko6/theme-ti83.zip

But it looks like I didn't fix and re-upload the theme afterwards  :(

Will see if I find time and motivation to fix it..

edit: almost done at fixing it!
Title: Re: Is it at all possible to get an old theme back?
Post by: lebellium on December 05, 2021, 06:57:15 PM
Here you are  :)

https://themes.rockbox.org/index.php?themeid=3236

(https://themes.rockbox.org/themes/96x96/theme-ti83_96x96_v1.14/wps-TI83_WPS.png) (https://themes.rockbox.org/themes/96x96/theme-ti83_96x96_v1.14/menu-TI83_SBS.png) (https://themes.rockbox.org/themes/96x96/theme-ti83_96x96_v1.14/1-TI83_FMS.png)
Title: Re: Is it at all possible to get an old theme back?
Post by: Frankenpod on December 05, 2021, 07:18:20 PM
Now just have to hope the original poster (GigaG) actually comes back to find it!