What's the license for the Nseries theme?

[daddeddad]

What is the license for the preinstalled themes on the n900. The gtkrc file is licensed as CC share alike 2.5, but is this license only covering the text-files or do they apply to the pixmaps as well?

I am mostly wondering since I am working on a theme, where I intend on keeping most of the elements intact, and mostly tweak colors and hues. I feel it is wise to ask now and not rush to do unnecessary pixelwork on every single element...

And a little bit OT ... Where is the color of the date in the lock screen defined? :confused:

[andrewfblack]

What is the license for the preinstalled themes on the n900. The gtkrc file is licensed as CC share alike 2.5, but is this license only covering the text-files or do they apply to the pixmaps as well?

I am mostly wondering since I am working on a theme, where I intend on keeping most of the elements intact, and mostly tweak colors and hues. I feel it is wise to ask now and not rush to do unnecessary pixelwork on every single element...

And a little bit OT ... Where is the color of the date in the lock screen defined? :confused:

in colors.css

[Stskeeps]

AFAIK, properitary package. There's many other delicious themes to base off though.

[daddeddad]

Well that was a pity, I shall look into it though, IiviSteel might have some components worth using...:cool:

[d-iivil]

Well that was a pity, I shall look into it though, IiviSteel might have some components worth using...:cool:
Well, there's also some bitmaps from nseries-theme, allthough they are all modified in some way.
I'm still working on draving all the graphics from the scratch for IivilSteel. Baby steps...

[daddeddad]

Well after looking in to this and that I decided to base it upon Andrews maemo-theme since it seems nice and should be bugg-free.

I will remove some screaming orange thought. :D

[Stskeeps]

Please look into http://mer-project.blogspot.com/2010/01/creative-use-of-madde-new-way-for-theme.html as well as a basis for development.

[daddeddad]

Please look into http://mer-project.blogspot.com/2010/01/creative-use-of-madde-new-way-for-theme.html as well as a basis for development.

Ouh, thanks. That was more than helpful.

[d-iivil]

Please look into http://mer-project.blogspot.com/2010/01/creative-use-of-madde-new-way-for-theme.html as well as a basis for development.

Yeah, thanks for this.
Can you tell how to create a .deb package inside MADDE from the three source-files?

In scratchbox it can be created by "fakeroot debian/binary" command, but fakeroot isn't included in MADDE?

[Stskeeps]

Yeah, thanks for this.
Can you tell how to create a .deb package inside MADDE from the three source-files?

In scratchbox it can be created by "fakeroot debian/binary" command, but fakeroot isn't included in MADDE?

For themes this is not currently possible. Upload it to autobuilder instead and let that on the heavy lifting.

[d-iivil]

For themes this is not currently possible. Upload it to autobuilder instead and let that on the heavy lifting.
okay. What about in Ubuntu? It's slow to recycle it through autobuilder just to test out minor tweaks...

[d-iivil]

okay. What about in Ubuntu? It's slow to recycle it through autobuilder just to test out minor tweaks...

Answer to myself; no, it wont build up even in scratchbox.

[ruskie]

Hmm looking at gtkrc in alpha/gtk-2.0 int says:
Copyright Nokia Corporation 2007
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License...

So how is that proprietary???

Same in a few other spots.

[Stskeeps]

The gtkrc's are build from same material (hildon-theme-layout-5) as many other themes but it does not change the fact the actual image files are closed source.

There's a properly licensed template out there to base on and make brilliant themes as mentioned above.

[d-iivil]

The gtkrc's are build from same material (hildon-theme-layout-5) as many other themes but it does not change the fact the actual image files are closed source.

There's a properly licensed template out there to base on and make brilliant themes as mentioned above.
Yeah, creating themes using that template and MADDE is very easy after you've draw your own stuff into template :)
Only thing I miss is ability to build .deb-files locally.

[daddeddad]

Yeah, creating themes using that template and MADDE is very easy after you've draw your own stuff into template :)
Only thing I miss is ability to build .deb-files locally.

Still I seem to be quite noobish when it came to MADDE. Installed it on my ubuntu machine but I have really no idea how to create the theme after using the *superb* template. So I have a half-ready theme waiting for the great folks around. :cool:

But until now the most used word while working with madde has been p*rkele. Probably a good piece of software, but I'm easily confused..


And. OT.

Adding some screens, just as teasers... :p

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/133178/screens/buttons.png

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/133178/screens/Screenshot-20100130-201658.png

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/133178/screens/Screenshot-20100130-202000.png

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/133178/screens/Screenshot-20100130-201840.png

[rontti]

Yeah, thanks for this.
Can you tell how to create a .deb package inside MADDE from the three source-files?

In scratchbox it can be created by "fakeroot debian/binary" command, but fakeroot isn't included in MADDE?

With MADDE you don't need fakeroot. MADDE gives root ownership for files automatically. Just call debian/binary.

[andrewfblack]

What problems are you having building the themes with MADDE if you tell us we can help you.

[daddeddad]

Well, the thing that I have done is to edit the template files, and then run try_it_out.sh. After that I do not have a clue what to do. As I said, I'm easily confused.

In the readme file it states that I then should:
3. Give your theme following parameters in conf/hilton-hildon-theme-variant.confml:
- ThemeDir: where to install your theme under /usr/share/theme)
- ThemeName: your theme's name

The problem then would be: where is this file? And what parameters should I enter.

[rontti]

Well, the thing that I have done is to edit the template files, and then run try_it_out.sh. After that I do not have a clue what to do. As I said, I'm easily confused.

In the readme file it states that I then should:


The problem then would be: where is this file? And what parameters should I enter.

Have you read following blog?
http://mer-project.blogspot.com/2010/01/creative-use-of-madde-new-way-for-theme.html
Maybe the author of the blog will help you.

[d-iivil]

Well, the thing that I have done is to edit the template files, and then run try_it_out.sh. After that I do not have a clue what to do. As I said, I'm easily confused.

In the readme file it states that I then should:


The problem then would be: where is this file? And what parameters should I enter.

After that just run (inside the theme-folder):
mad dpkg-buildpackage -S -us -uc -d

In case you want to fill in additional info about your theme edit these files: debian/control & debian/changelog

Then just run the command mentioned before.

[daddeddad]

After that just run (inside the theme-folder):
mad dpkg-buildpackage -S -us -uc -d

In case you want to fill in additional info about your theme edit these files: debian/control & debian/changelog

Then just run the command mentioned before.


Hmmm, something didn't quite go as planned:

dskagers@Darwin:~/Desktop/jus-cogens$ mad dpkg-buildpackage -S -us -uc -d
dpkg-buildpackage: set CFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: set CPPFLAGS to default value:
dpkg-buildpackage: set LDFLAGS to default value:
dpkg-buildpackage: set FFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: set CXXFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
parsechangelog/debian: warning: debian/changelog(l5): badly formatted trailer line
LINE: -- dadde da@de.nu Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:49:44 +0200
parsechangelog/debian: warning: debian/changelog(l5): found eof where expected more change data or trailer
Use of uninitialized value $v in pattern match (m//) at /home/dskagers/.madde/0.5/madlib/perl5/Dpkg/Fields.pm line 229, <STDIN> line 5.
Use of uninitialized value $v in pattern match (m//) at /home/dskagers/.madde/0.5/madlib/perl5/Dpkg/Fields.pm line 229, <STDIN> line 5.
dpkg-buildpackage: source package jus-cogens
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0.1
dpkg-buildpackage: error: unable to determine source changed by


/home/dskagers/.madde/0.5/madlib/perl5/Dpkg/Fields.pm line 229

Says:
$v =~ m/\S/ || next; # delete whitespace-only fields

So I-fail or code fail?

[d-iivil]

I suppose you have earlier messed something up. Try to re-download the master-theme package, extract it into your madde/home/username/themedirectory, run try_it_out.sh once and fill in the details and then do the dpkg-command and report results here. Just to test out the package without actually modifying anything yet.

edit: I got the same error once if I didn't give theme author's details in correct format when asked. Correct format is "Your Name <your@email.com>" without " -characters ofcourse.

[daddeddad]

I suppose you have earlier messed something up. Try to re-download the master-theme package, extract it into your madde/home/username/themedirectory, run try_it_out.sh once and fill in the details and then do the dpkg-command and report results here. Just to test out the package without actually modifying anything yet.

edit: I got the same error once if I didn't give theme author's details in correct format when asked. Correct format is "Your Name <your@email.com>" without " -characters ofcourse.
Glory!
Thank you!

Finally, It worked. Now gimme' two weeks and you will have yourselves a new shine theme.
... I know it seems like a long time, but I have two jobs and study full time, so I'm short of spare time.

[sajman]

i cant even figure out how to run try_it_out.sh


do i run it after changing directory??

cd \home\username\graf

sh try_it_out.sh

[sajman]

done it... im total noobin it out to the max!!!