About the OVI store themes

[kanishou]

This regards Harmony, Melody and WordCity. Possibly others too, but I haven't tested it.

The theme gets reset to default when one of them is selected and the device is restarted, apparently because the fallback script doesn't work properly with optified themes yet.

To fix this, edit /etc/event.d/hildon-control-panel-personalisation and replace the line that says start on started xomap with start on MOUNTS_OK

WARNING: Since this is a system file run on every startup, you should only do this if you are confident that you know what you are doing (and could recover from a mishap).

This will hopefully be fixed in one of the next firmware releases.


Those themes are by the way evolutions of the original development theme (with WordCity being based on Steffen's artwork), so a lot of care and passion has gone into them from the start. I hope you enjoy them! :) Template files (not backgrounds) were entirely done as SVGs in Inkscape.

Also, hildon-theme-variant-example has now been posted to gitorious, which currently includes a copy of the WordCity main template .png and .svg in the template folder. That certainly should be useful! The whole package has been released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license:

http://maemo.gitorious.org/fremantle-hildon-desktop/hildon-theme-variant-example

You can use this as a base for making your own themes, if you use the packaging scripts. If you want to use Theme Maker, you might have to edit the templates a bit to match the formats used by Theme Maker.

[in-effect]

well i don't know about that but some of the colour schemes really blow. the clowns theme, while possessing some creditable background kmages, has a truly awful palette. and the black and white one wasn't very well thought through to have text entry boxes with black text on a background.

[kanishou]

Well, I have nothing to do with any of those themes and I would agree that they lack polish (to say the least, but they got some nice backgrounds). This is only about Harmony, Melody, and WordCity. Other themes might also be affected by the restart bug though.

[Soder]

Thank you for the solution!

Here is the bug report: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7852

[Bingley Joe]

Thanks for this information, kanishou.

I wasn't having any trouble with the themes resetting on restarting the device, but I was using the WordCity theme, and had noticed that it would occasionally revert to default when I would access the Application Manager.

It actually made the switch with a subtle fade from the theme's orange colour to the default blue, which had me thinking it was intentional at first until I realized the WordCity theme didn't reappear afterward.. :p

I'm not sure if that's a related issue, but I've applied your edit, and it hasn't happened since, so hopefully this is a fix..

One minor thing I did notice, which you may want to edit in your OP:

To fix this, edit /etc/event.d/hildon-control-center-personalisation

The actual file name to edit is:

/etc/event.d/hildon-control-panel-personalisation

[kanishou]

Thanks, I keep making that mistake!

Your issue probably wasn't caused by this though, application manager can just be slow in updating the graphics.

[Bingley Joe]

Thanks, I keep making that mistake!

The choice of files to edit is limited enough that it was obvious what you meant, but I figured it was worth pointing out

Your issue probably wasn't caused by this though, application manager can just be slow in updating the graphics.

It's weird though because AM would launch using the new theme's orangy colours, and then slowly fade back to blue.. it was kind of cool looking actually :p

It happened every time I went in there to the point that I was just about to post a thread about it when I saw yours.. hasn't happened since for whatever reason. Ah well..

[Nospheratu]

Hi,

I'm not really an expert on how to use the x-terminal, so i have a question.
How do i change this file exactly?
If i just type in the path "/etc/event.d/hildon-control-panel-personalisation", it just says "permission denied". So, how do i change this line? The fact that my theme always resets to default is really driving me nuts.
Thanks in advance for explaining it to dummies like me ;)

[chansearrington]

Hi,

I'm not really an expert on how to use the x-terminal, so i have a question.
How do i change this file exactly?
If i just type in the path "/etc/event.d/hildon-control-panel-personalisation", it just says "permission denied". So, how do i change this line? The fact that my theme always resets to default is really driving me nuts.
Thanks in advance for explaining it to dummies like me ;)

In the same boat here. What kind of file am I trying to access and what's the command to do so?

[donsaibot]

How can i save my change with MC (midnight commander)?

Its telling me problem while saving.

[jgbreezer]

Well, I'm not sure what text editors the n900 comes with that are more user friendly (mine is still on route to me), but if you have a text editor you need to open the file it in that and use it - which I guess has complications added if the file has restricted permissions from the root user.

Try

sudo nano /etc/hildon/..(type the filename here or copy paste it)

If you know what your editor is called, try typing that instead of nano - that's just an example and I'm doing this on an N95...

Please excuse me, I don't guarantee and not even confident that this won't break the file ownership. Careful!

[chansearrington]

Ok, so I was given the solution.

Here's a step by step for this issue.

1. install rootsh & leafpad
2. open Xterminnal and type "sudo gainroot"
3. Then type "leafpad /etc/event.d/hildon-control-panel-personalisation"
4. Then make change "start on started xomap" to "start on MOUNTS_OK"
5. Click the top Menu and select "Save"

All Done :-)

[Nospheratu]

It worked, thanks!

[donsaibot]

Worked for me too.

Thanks :D

[SR90]

Worked for me too , thanks alot :)

Great forum with great users , I LIKE :D

[Janiminator]

@chansearrington

A big Thanks !

[jorjino]

It works also in my N900.

Thanks a lot.
Regards.:)