[Announce] Icon themes for N900

[d-iivil]

Hi there,

since there has been no easy way for users to install and use different icon themes, I decided to do something about it.

I've coded application called "Theme Customizer" which makes it possible to customize your theme including changing current icon theme. Besides that I've created some icon themes so that users can actually try out how things are working and also that developers can grab the sources and start making their own icon themes.

Here are icon themes I've released so far:
Pleego Icon Pack
http://maemo.org/packages/view/pleego-icon-pack/

Plastic Icon Pack
http://maemo.org/packages/view/plastic-icon-pack/

an-Droid Icons
http://maemo.org/packages/view/an-droid-icons/

Humanity Icon Pack (originally packed up by CepiPerez)
http://maemo.org/packages/view/humanity-icon-pack/

Installing any of those packs will automaticly install Theme Customizer which can be launched from Settings -application.

Info about Theme Customizer can be found here:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=62960
http://maemo.org/packages/view/theme-customizer/

[lingling92]

would be great, if we could see the icons here, so that we don't have to install first :)

[afaq]

You can see Pleego Icon pack here:

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=860692&postcount=1694


Thanks for the continuous effort D-livil. Much appreciated.

[AlMehdi]

Now i feel i really need to get time to set up some icon-themes... Have big plans for the Faenza or Awoken icon-themes. But i am really busy IRL so i'll see when i can do this. ;)

[andrewfblack]

Now i feel i really need to get time to set up some icon-themes... Have big plans for the Faenza or Awoken icon-themes. But i am really busy IRL so i'll see when i can do this. ;)

Faenza is already being worked on it will be included in next update of my maemo-org theme and as a stand along packages once we get done with it.

[d-iivil]

Now i feel i really need to get time to set up some icon-themes... Have big plans for the Faenza or Awoken icon-themes. But i am really busy IRL so i'll see when i can do this. ;)

Cool, easiest way to start is to get the source of an-droid-icons:
http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/pool/fremantle/free/source/a/an-droid-icons/

And then just start adding / replacing icons with your owns. Finally you need to edit few files (search and replace "an-droid-icons" with your desired package name and also rename this folder to match to that:
/src/usr/share/icons/an-droid-icons -> /src/usr/share/icons/your-desired-package-name

[AlMehdi]

Faenza is already being worked on it will be included in next update of my maemo-org theme and as a stand along packages once we get done with it.

Perfect! I think those two icon-themes are the best for the x-environment yet. I am using Awoken on my machine at home. ;)

[AlMehdi]

Cool, easiest way to start is to get the source of an-droid-icons:
http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/pool/fremantle/free/source/a/an-droid-icons/

And then just start adding / replacing icons with your owns. Finally you need to edit few files (search and replace "an-droid-icons" with your desired package name and also rename this folder to match to that:
/src/usr/share/icons/an-droid-icons -> /src/usr/share/icons/your-desired-package-name

Thanks! I think i pretty much know how to set it up due to my erlier work on this (if you remember).. just need the time ;)

I really admire your work D-livil ;)

[shazosbourne]

Hey D-Iivil,
I have the theme customiser installed, am using black plastic theme with my own icon set, (well actually it is the one andrewfblack and I are working on), and I notice when I go to settings, the hicolor icons appear, then the screen blinks and my icons appear. Is that as a result of the customiser? Would I need to install an standalone theme which included the icon pack and not use theme customiser to call the icons to avoid this happening?

Also, something you might know the answer to, if an app installs it's icon to the pixmaps folder, eg. guitar chords, instinctiv, will an icon from the icons folder be used ahead of the pixmap one? Not sure how to make the custom icons work for thos apps other than just replacing the onses in that pixmap folder.

Cheers.

[d-iivil]

Hey D-Iivil,
I have the theme customiser installed, am using black plastic theme with my own icon set, (well actually it is the one andrewfblack and I are working on), and I notice when I go to settings, the hicolor icons appear, then the screen blinks and my icons appear. Is that as a result of the customiser? Would I need to install an standalone theme which included the icon pack and not use theme customiser to call the icons to avoid this happening?
No, this is result of Maemo 5 OS caching things stupidly. You need to switch your theme once to something else and then switch back to black plastic (using the maemo's own built in theme changer). That will clear the caches. I'd implement that function directly to Theme Customizer if I only knew how (the built in theme changer application is closed source so I can't copy & paste anything from there).


Also, something you might know the answer to, if an app installs it's icon to the pixmaps folder, eg. guitar chords, instinctiv, will an icon from the icons folder be used ahead of the pixmap one? Not sure how to make the custom icons work for thos apps other than just replacing the onses in that pixmap folder.

Cheers.

I don't know for sure, but I think the ones under "icons" -folder will override the ones inside pixmap -folder.

[jnack95]

Thanks for the icons and I appreciate all of your work on the themes. However, I have a problem that whenever I use the them customizer to change the icons, I lose the icon background images and the widget images too (e.g. the button widgets for the media player desktop widget). This even happens when I try to change the font on the Carbon theme. Anyone else have this problem? DIdn't see it when I searched before.

[elie-7]

thanks man this rocks !!!! i'm a n00b, but if i had some time later this week, i'll try uploading my own icons .

[d-iivil]

Thanks for the icons and I appreciate all of your work on the themes. However, I have a problem that whenever I use the them customizer to change the icons, I lose the icon background images and the widget images too (e.g. the button widgets for the media player desktop widget). This even happens when I try to change the font on the Carbon theme. Anyone else have this problem? DIdn't see it when I searched before.

To what level have you set the "widget opacity"?

[jnack95]

To what level have you set the "widget opacity"?

Ahhh...that was it. I never adjusted any of those sliders....but the default was 100...so increasing it to 255 solved the issue. Cheers and thanks for all your hard-work... definitely appreciate it!

[d-iivil]

Ahhh...that was it. I never adjusted any of those sliders....but the default was 100...so increasing it to 255 solved the issue. Cheers and thanks for all your hard-work... definitely appreciate it!

Okay... I'll check the default value, it should be 255 but I might have very well forgot to change it back when testing other stuff.

[andrewfblack]

No, this is result of Maemo 5 OS caching things stupidly. You need to switch your theme once to something else and then switch back to black plastic (using the maemo's own built in theme changer). That will clear the caches. I'd implement that function directly to Theme Customizer if I only knew how (the built in theme changer application is closed source so I can't copy & paste anything from there).



I don't know for sure, but I think the ones under "icons" -folder will override the ones inside pixmap -folder.

before Fremantle you had to clear your caches your self they didn't do it when you changed themes I'll test the command and see if it words still tonight.

[ceroberts75]

Hi there,

since there has been no easy way for users to install and use different icon themes, I decided to do something about it.

I've coded application called "Theme Customizer" which makes it possible to customize your theme including changing current icon theme. Besides that I've created some icon themes so that users can actually try out how things are working and also that developers can grab the sources and start making their own icon themes.

Here are icon themes I've released so far:
Pleego Icon Pack
http://maemo.org/packages/view/pleego-icon-pack/

Plastic Icon Pack
http://maemo.org/packages/view/plastic-icon-pack/

an-Droid Icons
http://maemo.org/packages/view/an-droid-icons/

Humanity Icon Pack (originally packed up by CepiPerez)
http://maemo.org/packages/view/humanity-icon-pack/

Installing any of those packs will automaticly install Theme Customizer which can be launched from Settings -application.

Info about Theme Customizer can be found here:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=62960
http://maemo.org/packages/view/theme-customizer/

@ D...

you da man! really. you da man! ;)

[nathaneous]

hi d-iivii,
like everyone else i have to say your themes are one of the reasons my n900 has longevity! anyway is there a way you could incorporate custom transitions into the theme customiser? i'm currently using marina theme with theme customizer settings, and i do miss the custom transitions from black plastic theme pack!

thanks

[James_Littler]

Okay... I'll check the default value, it should be 255 but I might have very well forgot to change it back when testing other stuff.

I can confirm this.
Default opacity is 100.

Made me think the first time I used it too. ;)

[hussainmushahid]

whenever I try to use the black plastic icons, my icons revert to the default ones. any solution? pleego and other icons work fine.

[d-iivil]

whenever I try to use the black plastic icons, my icons revert to the default ones. any solution? pleego and other icons work fine.

Is the theme customizer showing "hicolor" after you have tried to se icon theme to black-plastic-icons?

[d-iivil]

I can confirm this.
Default opacity is 100.

Made me think the first time I used it too. ;)

Checked this and the default value is 255. Maybe it was leftover from some earlier version?

I'm anyway planning to change the opacity slider behaviour so that it saves the value per theme individually. That way it will always show the current value of the current active theme.

[hussainmushahid]

Is the theme customizer showing "hicolor" after you have tried to se icon theme to black-plastic-icons?

sorry for the late reply but no, I see black plastic icons selected but the icons show up as the default ones, but hicolor is in the icon list in theme customizer.

[d-iivil]

sorry for the late reply but no, I see black plastic icons selected but the icons show up as the default ones, but hicolor is in the icon list in theme customizer.

Black Plastic Icons doesn't include custom launcher icons for applications. It only comes with custom battery, filemanager's folders, cell level, sms, and many other icons.

[slai]

Hey! Any possiblity to include new icons to your Pleeego Icon pack for these often used programs:

- fMMS
- Opera Browser
- Fennec Browser
- Ovi Store

and possibly, cause personally Ive got them up on my desktop:

- Angry Birds
- DrNokSNES

I really like the pleego icons, but the visual gets kind of disrupted by the mix of the stylish simplistic icons with these nonsimplistic ones.


Insanely awesome work either way, really top notch stuff! Much appreciated :D