My 7501 is less than a week old and I'm using Michi's 2.18d in 1.2 spl mode and it is awesome. Owe that guy a beer.
The reason for my post is that I come from a Tilt and Eten x800 history and the trend with HTC has been the cool, sleek, black/grey backgrounds and Home themes. What I'd like is something more colorful to really show off this awesome 5" screen. I like the layout of the Big HTC Home theme, but it would be nice to jazz it up with some color. Any ideas?
Stick a different background on there...
WK Task allows you to change a graded fade to the topbar if you use that.
Hey guys, just to let you know about the second of my themes for the Xperia called "Clarity".
As with my previous, and any more I will create it is for the purpose of allowing maximal viewing of the walpaper of your choice while at hte same time giving you access to all the most important information you need. Also, with my themes, all will be created so that the taskbar can be on or off and not affect the theme.
They may also be used on other devices since the major resolution defining part is the wallpaper and I am not releasing these with specific wallpapers.
NOTE: The only planned additions *may* be to add a slide out dock with WiFi/BT connectivity. I try to keep these as light as possible for aesthetic and performance purposes.
Comments, criticism, suggestions welcome, enjoy some shots:
UPDATE: I have created the landscape version. Finally managed to get the file attached this morning, enjoy.
Note, in anticipation that most of you are in fact right handed, unlike myself, I have moved the "dock" with the indicators to the right side of the screen in landscape mode, so that when holding the phone one handed you can press them with your thumb. I did not place the dock (in landscape mode) to allow for the taskbar on (would take up too much space) this will be the only exception, and you can move the parts yourself if you need taskbar on.[/color]
NOTE: Like my other theme, the message links may not take you exactly where you want, but they can be edited to take you directly to SMS and to a specific email inbox. Because I don't know what you name your inbox, I can not do that for you.
Enjoy.
Looks awesome dude, wd. Soz but yeah I'm not really in to themes, although I wish I could get the taskbar to be black but also with that shiny texture you know, something to do with base hue. All themes with a black taskbar looks like too gray. but ah well.
Like the work youre doing!
Thank you.
Thank you for your kind words, I agree, theming isn't for everyone, but as a person used to phones with flashy UIs and more so a person that will do anything he can to that UI to make sure his wallpaper can be seen as much as possible (the entire first page on my iphone is blank apart from the wallpaper, and the lockscreen has nothing but the clock and the taskbar (which is invisible) icons.), I try to bring the perfect mix of function and aesthetics.
I know what you mean about the titlebar, Surely there is a way to edit one of the existing themes? I know you can make your own themes (although when I tried it, it refused to display on my Xperia) with the nice gradiented titlebar in black.
AxE-mAn said:
Looks awesome dude, wd. Soz but yeah I'm not really in to themes, although I wish I could get the taskbar to be black but also with that shiny texture you know, something to do with base hue. All themes with a black taskbar looks like too gray. but ah well.
Like the work youre doing!
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Yeah... But I use Silver Xperia and it actually has this glossy but grey task bar.
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Yeah... But I use Silver Xperia and it actually has this glossy but grey task bar.
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I see what you mean, i just set my experia to the Silver Theme and it is the glossy gray (silver) one. I wonder why the black Xperia theme doesn't have this "glossy" bar but instead a flat black one. The silver theme is yuck though, (especially on my Black X1), although saying that, I'm making themes for WAD so I obviously don't like either of them much.
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I see what you mean, i just set my experia to the Silver Theme and it is the glossy gray (silver) one. I wonder why the black Xperia theme doesn't have this "glossy" bar but instead a flat black one. The silver theme is yuck though, (especially on my Black X1), although saying that, I'm making themes for WAD so I obviously don't like either of them much.
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Well Silver Theme is yuck? In fact you can't do too much inside of WM themes, and his one has just a perfect readability.
Yeh
doministry said:
Well Silver Theme is yuck? In fact you can't do too much inside of WM themes, and his one has just a perfect readability.
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Yeh, "yuck". It's English, right? His one? Whos, what, has perfect readability?
alias_neo said:
Hey guys, just to let you know about the second of my themes for hte Xperia called "Clarity".
As with my previous, and any more I will create it is for the purpose of allowing maximal viewing of the walpaper of your choice while at hte same time giving you access to all the most important information you need. Also, with my themes, all will be created so that the taskbar can be on or off and not affect the theme.
They may also be used on other devices since the major resolution defining part is the wallpaper and I am not releasing these with specific wallpapers.
Anyway, here are some shots, if there is interest i will complete a landscape version and get the theme files attached.
NOTE: The only planned additions *may* be to add a slide out dock with WiFi/BT connectivity. I try to keep these as light as possible for aesthetic and performance purposes.
Comments, criticism, suggestions welcome, enjoy some shots:
P.S. it may or may not be obvious, I only just realised, but the "indication" of calls/messages/sms as shown by the relevent icon "lighting" white. No calls/email/sms will leave it see through. Each item when clicked will link you to the relevent place, of course.
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Wow, greatest theme I have ever seen. PLEASE REALEASE IT!
I can't wait for it, this is exactlly what I have been lookin´ for!
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bobbanswe said:
Wow, greatest theme I have ever seen. PLEASE REALEASE IT!
I can't wait for it, this is exactlly what I have been lookin´ for!
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Well ok, that kind of enthusiasm from just one person is enough to warrant the effort.
I'm off out now, give me until about 1am GMT and I should have a release all being well and I get back to my hotel in one piece, and the internet is still working.
The wallpapers (except the girl) are all included with the Xperia by default (you may need to set them to stretched to display right) so I will include the picture of "Pepper", although all credit must go to her creator over at Deviant Art for the wallpaper itself. (Look for Pepper Love).
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Yeh, "yuck". It's English, right? His one? Whos, what, has perfect readability?
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Ok, I was just surprised that you wrote Silver Theme is yuck. Of course it's correct english
Actually I talk about the whole theme not standby only.
So I thought X1 Silver Theme is perfectly readible - especially in menus and apps - it has a black coursor bar or however you call it, in reverse to most other ones where it's grey or green etc. I hope I'm clear...
Looks intriguing, will surely give it a try when it is released!
I see.
doministry said:
Ok, I was just surprised that you wrote Silver Theme is yuck. Of course it's correct english
Actually I talk about the whole theme not standby only.
So I thought X1 Silver Theme is perfectly readible - especially in menus and apps - it has a black coursor bar or however you call it, in reverse to most other ones where it's grey or green etc. I hope I'm clear...
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Oh I see what you mean, I never really thought about the theme outside of the Today screen. Probably because the bold white text on the black taskbar of the black theme seems to give a perfect contrast and readability. I tried the Silver theme briefly and it's gray taskbar wasnt too nice and the brush steel type wallpaper I don't like, but then I don't particularly like the Black one either with its colours.
Anyway, I just got back to my hotel so I'm going to see if I can get quickly chuck together a landscape bit for this and release the .wadesktop files here asap.
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The theme is now attached in first post, please let me know if it's all working correctly. Enjoy.
I don't have WAD2, but I'd just like to comment that the theme looks awesome.
How can I install the theme???
please help!!!!
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Concentrate said:
I don't have WAD2, but I'd just like to comment that the theme looks awesome.
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Thank you.
thenry1988 said:
How can I install the theme???
please help!!!!
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First of all you need to have Wisbar Advance Desktop 2.
According to the Wisbar website they are like executable cabs but they work via the Wisbar program. It says all you need to do is copy the .wadesktop file to your device and run it (double click) it should extract it all correctly.
Then just go into change theme and apply it. (By hold-clicking the background while in WAD2.)
Is there a theme that is like the minamal black but in white? I use Leedroid ROM and I cant seem to locate one at all.
Anyone have any ideas?
the ginger god said:
Is there a theme that is like the minamal black but in white? I use Leedroid ROM and I cant seem to locate one at all.
Anyone have any ideas?
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I think the white bar would be the easy bit, changing the font colour for clock and notifications could be the hard be as .xml files in the framework would have to be edited. That is beyond the scope of what I could do. There might be someone here who knows where they are kept.
Unfortunately i too can't help you in this case, but i have something to think of for you if you have an AMOLED display...
AMOLED uses nearly no energy for black parts of the screen which is superior to LCD displays. But when showing white pixels, i heard AMOLED uses 3 x more energy compared to LCD.
So, as a sideeffect, the dark sense gui is perfect for energy saving too! ...i also use a dark background!
Thanks for that info
I do have an amold screen. I will revert back to black.
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this is my hd2 with wp7 custom theme. sry for the blurry pics, i used ever so "great"(and i use that word quite loosely) bb torch.
Very nice theme!
But I'm just curious what case you use? It look's great!
bazinga said:
Very nice theme!
But I'm just curious what case you use? It look's great!
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the original case... i just painted it white and i chromed my back cover... i can post pics if u like
I have a few opinions to throw up !
1st- no offense but don't you think it's kinda useless. As WP7 only allowes you to change the colour and the arrangement of the tiles ?
Second, I'd love to share mine, but I don't have a cam. I thought of capturing it with the cam of the phone using a few mirrors, but then I'll just be capturing the camera screen
It's pretty stock, I only removed the calendar though
you can imagine it
kawazaki said:
I have a few opinions to throw up !
1st- no offense but don't you think it's kinda useless. As WP7 only allowes you to change the colour and the arrangement of the tiles ?
Second, I'd love to share mine, but I don't have a cam. I thought of capturing it with the cam of the phone using a few mirrors, but then I'll just be capturing the camera screen
It's pretty stock, I only removed the calendar though
you can imagine it
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hahahahaha, yea i can imagine it.. and u can put custom colors for the keypad bg, change text color, notification color etc.. i'm currently looking for a way to change the font.. i saw something located in hklm/system/gdi/fontalias.... i tried changing the defaultUIFont but nothing seemed to happen.. hopefully someone with a little more wp7 knowledge can help
and here is a pic of my case
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hahahahaha, yea i can imagine it.. and u can put custom colors for the keypad bg, change text color, notification color etc.. i'm currently looking for a way to change the font.. i saw something located in hklm/system/gdi/fontalias.... i tried changing the defaultUIFont but nothing seemed to happen.. hopefully someone with a little more wp7 knowledge can help
and here is a pic of my case
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Please explain the underlined
Lizzo said:
the original case... i just painted it white and i chromed my back cover... i can post pics if u like
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That would be great
i just posted the pics in post #5
Hello guys i thought about maybe we can Discuss about themes.
Sometimes i really have to laugh because some of the themes in the store are very ugly and childish and they want to ask money for it, so did you guys found free themes that have premium looks so you can share the names here if you want.
And my favorite theme of the moment is [Weyo] black and blue.
Weyo was once my main theme.
Then I used Blue And Black Amoled.
now I am using paid theme Material Black.
yaibakt said:
Weyo was once my main theme.
Then I used Blue And Black Amoled.
now I am using paid theme Material Black.
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yeah thats one good theme to but the icons i dont like of the amoled theme if those were a little bit darker it would be perfect, i hope we can change the icos apart from the theme it self with nougat than i would use the icons of weyo or dark pixel