[Release] Okuda theme (N900) [Archive] - maemo.org

ian_ryge

2010-07-18, 05:52

It took longer than I expected, but I finally got the Okuda theme for N900/Maemo 5 to a releasable state. The package is now available in the Extras repository so you can find it in your Application Manager (or just click here to install (http://maemo.org/downloads/product/raw/Maemo5/hildon-theme-okuda/?get_installfile) if you're reading this on your N900). You'll have to reboot after switching themes for various icons and text colors to take effect (Maemo bug 3659 (http://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3659)). Send feedback and bug reports to lcars [at] synthesize.us (or just post in this thread).

The theme includes 403 icons, for which I made a custom template (below). The icon template gets sliced during the build process, just like the rest of the theme. Source is available (http://repository.maemo.org/extras-testing/pool/fremantle/free/source/h/hildon-theme-okuda/), so if any other theme makers want to cover lots of icons, this should make that a bit easier. (If you want to theme a different selection of icons, you could make your own template layout with the script at the bottom of this old post (http://faceted.wordpress.com/2008/09/21/preview-of-our-new-maemo-theme/) by my brother.)

The theme installs two wallpaper sets. Details here (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=773479#post773479).

A replacement sounds package to complement the Okuda theme is now available in the extras repository. See this thread (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=761589) for more info.

The Okuda theme is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/

http://static.maemo.org/style_maemo2009/img/icons/application_install.png (http://maemo.org/downloads/product/raw/Maemo5/hildon-theme-okuda/?get_installfile)
Changes in 1.0.2:

Made contact and bookmark desktop widget thumbnails opaque
Changed ActiveTextColor (E-mail message list, etc) (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=762871#post762871)
Changed AccentColors (names in IM/SMS conversations)
Changed small notebook/tab graphics (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=761739#post761739)
Changed RSS desktop widget (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=761739#post761739)
Changed theme icon (theme selection dialog)
Changed virtual keyboard button clicked state
Made tick mark icons visible in Manage views dialog (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=774397#post774397)
Made Media player desktop widget icons larger
Added list line dividers (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=760048#post760048)
Removed general_sms icon (may eventually be re-added along with other icons like it)

https://synthesize.us/images/8/8f/Okuda_desktop1_101.png
https://synthesize.us/images/9/99/Okuda_desktop2_101.png
https://synthesize.us/images/9/9d/Okuda_lockscreen.png
https://synthesize.us/images/c/cd/Okuda_dashboard.png
https://synthesize.us/images/9/95/Okuda_callui.png
https://synthesize.us/images/4/47/Okuda_appmgr.png
https://synthesize.us/images/3/30/Template.png
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snap

2010-07-18, 06:00

That looks good! thanks for this theme, will try it later today.

NvyUs

2010-07-18, 06:02

very cool looks like you've put a lot of work into it

navsin

2010-07-18, 06:27

Great! New themes are always welcome :)

dana.s

2010-07-18, 06:32

nice one man thanks, i think if you could change something in the Menu it will be great, because it still gives the old feeling.

DonPIZI

2010-07-18, 09:41

:) nice! Now the N900 looks like a command console from the uss enterprise :)

ToJa92

2010-07-18, 09:52

Seems to work nicely, though I think you should remove the blue border on the desktop and the fat background behind the desktop icons(they appear to use up more space now).

EDIT: Unrelated question, does anyone know if you can get the current theme directory in Xterm?

HeavyComponent

2010-07-18, 12:37

Unique, but not my style.

bingbings

2010-07-18, 18:08

Beautiful theme! Very good work, congratulations!
Of course it become instantly my new favourite...

cjp

2010-07-18, 18:11

Wow you guys really wanna look like haxors, huh? :) That theme makes the N900 look like a very old computer with a little cyberpunk here and there!

Wow! Thanks for the originality!

longcat

2010-07-18, 18:42

doubleplusgood theme.

vonbraun66

2010-07-18, 19:26

very nice theme, but the button that should appear on top of the screen when for example you want to delete multiple mails or photos stays totally invisible. the button is there allright and you can use it, if you know where it is supposed to be.

DonPIZI

2010-07-18, 20:14

yes please fix it. Here is a picture of the "missing" button:http://risingdreams.com/other/button.png

kryptoniankid17

2010-07-18, 20:19

It took longer than I expected, but I finally got the Okuda theme for N900/Maemo 5 to a releasable state. The package is currently in the extras-testing repository, so please try it out and vote to promote (http://maemo.org/packages/package_instance/view/fremantle_extras-testing_free_i386/hildon-theme-okuda/1.0.0/) if you find no major problems. You'll have to reboot after switching themes for various icons and text colors to take effect (Maemo bug 3659 (http://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3659)). Send feedback and bug reports to lcars [at] synthesize.us (or just post in this thread).

The theme includes 403 icons, for which I made a custom template (below). The icon template gets sliced during the build process, just like the rest of the theme. Source is available (http://repository.maemo.org/extras-testing/pool/fremantle/free/source/h/hildon-theme-okuda/), so if any other theme makers want to cover lots of icons, this should make that a bit easier. (If you want to theme a different selection of icons, you could make your own template layout with the script at the bottom of this old post (http://faceted.wordpress.com/2008/09/21/preview-of-our-new-maemo-theme/) by my brother.)

Enjoy!

https://synthesize.us/images/4/49/Okuda_desktop1.png
https://synthesize.us/images/c/c2/Okuda_desktop2.png
https://synthesize.us/images/9/9d/Okuda_lockscreen.png
https://synthesize.us/images/c/cd/Okuda_dashboard.png
https://synthesize.us/images/9/95/Okuda_callui.png
https://synthesize.us/images/4/47/Okuda_appmgr.png
https://synthesize.us/images/3/30/Template.png
Awesome work man. Love the colors.

DonPIZI

2010-07-18, 21:15

ohh no i've found another issue:
http://risingdreams.com/other/icons.png
please a add more icons :)

ian_ryge

2010-07-18, 21:58

nice one man thanks, i think if you could change something in the Menu it will be great, because it still gives the old feeling.
Unfortunately I don't have time to do the app icons any time soon, but maybe eventually.

Seems to work nicely, though I think you should remove the blue border on the desktop and the fat background behind the desktop icons(they appear to use up more space now).

It's easy enough to use a solid black png as your wallpaper if you want to get rid of the outline. Maybe I'll package one in a later version. I'll play around with the applet sizes too.

EDIT: Unrelated question, does anyone know if you can get the current theme directory in Xterm?
All the themes are in /opt/usr/share/themes/ but I'm not actually sure how to check which theme is in use on the command line, if that's what you're asking.

very nice theme, but the button that should appear on top of the screen when for example you want to delete multiple mails or photos stays totally invisible. the button is there allright and you can use it, if you know where it is supposed to be.
Oops, I'll fix that soon.

ohh no i've found another issue:
http://risingdreams.com/other/icons.png
please a add more icons :)
Like I said above, I'm busy with other projects and can't really keep adding icons right now. I've covered 403, and there are about 1000 left... I had to stop somewhere, but I encourage you to pick up where I left off. :) That envelope is themed because I saw it was used on a few buttons (and didn't notice it in that list til later).

Glad you guys like the theme. :)

ToJa92

2010-07-18, 22:04

Oh, I thought it actually was in theme somehow. Anyway you've seem to have set a color wrong somewhere, in OMWeather you can't see the main text(it's black but should be white IMO).

ian_ryge

2010-07-19, 02:59

you've seem to have set a color wrong somewhere, in OMWeather you can't see the main text(it's black but should be white IMO).

I think that's more of a bug with OMWeather. It appears they're using ButtonTextColor but only displaying the button graphics for the clicked state... They should either use DefaultTextColor or the generic button graphic for the normal states of those buttons. I don't actually use OMWeather currently, but I'll file a bug with them at some point (unless you beat me to it).

eiraku

2010-07-19, 03:26

ian_ryge

2010-07-19, 08:09

If you ever decide to do a maemo Orange version of this, I'll be all over this in a heartbeat.

Though I would have to thank you profusely for releasing the source, which means I can actually mod it myself when I find myself some free time.

I look forward to seeing what you come up with. I made everything with Inkscape and included the SVG files in the source, so you could actually make batch color changes by search/replacing hex color values with a text editor.

dana.s

2010-07-19, 18:30

Unfortunately I don't have time to do the app icons any time soon, but maybe eventually.
i don't mean change icons, just add some blue border to menu background and it will be nice.

TNiga

2010-07-19, 19:45

i don't mean change icons, just add some blue border to menu background and it will be nice.

I don't think that's possible since there is no background in menu.

ian_ryge

2010-07-19, 22:32

i don't mean change icons, just add some blue border to menu background and it will be nice.
I don't think that's possible since there is no background in menu.

Actually, I think it would be possible if I were to alter the transitions. I haven't really checked out how they're configured, but if I turned off the blurring and zooming, the app menu background would be the currently selected wallpaper (and the default Okuda wallpaper is just the blue outline.) I'm not sure how hard it is to adjust transitions, but I'll look into it at some point.

ToJa92

2010-07-19, 22:39

Actually, I think it would be possible if I were to alter the transitions. I haven't really checked out how they're configured, but if I turned off the blurring and zooming, the app menu background would be the currently selected wallpaper (and the default Okuda wallpaper is just the blue outline.) I'm not sure how hard it is to adjust transitions, but I'll look into it at some point.

If you scroll however it would look weird(lines would go through icons and whatnot).

c:drive

2010-07-19, 23:09

I luv this theme,Dark but colorfull,found one problem when i was in pidgin IM didn't see fonts(due to Dark black background) from other side!yes i can change my fonts color but other side can't(from Nokia E72 don't let change their fonts color),hope u fix in next upgrade,
Thumps up

ian_ryge

2010-07-19, 23:28

If you scroll however it would look weird(lines would go through icons and whatnot).

Yeah I thought about that just after I posted... Probably won't do it because of that.

cr0c0

2010-07-20, 17:01

Not the most readable theme, but I love the look. :) Thanks.

So far it's an-Droid, pip-boy and okuda that are my favourites. If only joppu would update the pipboy one to use nice backgrounds in the lock screen...

ian_ryge

2010-07-21, 06:48

I just pushed a new version (1.0.1) to extras-testing, so please test it and vote to promote (http://maemo.org/packages/package_instance/view/fremantle_extras-testing_free_armel/hildon-theme-okuda/1.0.2/) if you find no major problems. (Votes are version-specific, so if you already voted on 1.0.0, please do so again.)

Changes in 1.0.1:

Added missing buttons. (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=756026#post756026)
Added missing app menu indicator triangle.
Made app launcher applets smaller. (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=755615#post755615)
Corrected debian/copyright file.

Stonik

2010-07-21, 07:49

I wasn't actually expecting too much of this theme, but man... I gotta say it really is beautiful on N900. Like DonPIZI said, it's almost like a small NCC-1701-D in my hands. Very nice work!

philh

2010-07-21, 21:08

ian_ryge

2010-07-21, 21:38

Aaaaaargh.. I updated but I don't like that one of the backgrounds has the round diagram thing. Any chance of posting the plain background picture here so I can change it please.

Other than than, spot on, one of my top 3 themes. Thanks a lot!

Actually, the theme already includes two wallpaper sets. The default wallpaper (which should be set when you select the theme) is just the blue outline, and it's labeled "Theme - Okuda" in the list of backgrounds. The other set, labeled "Image set - Okudagram", has the circular graphic on one of the four screens.

jakiman

2010-07-21, 23:43

Ian, awesome theme. Using it as I speak.

One thing I would like to see is green or blue separation lines in lists.
eg. A line between each contacts, calendar and selection lists.
Without it, it just doesn't look as nice and is harder to use imo.

nad6234

2010-07-22, 12:34

Great to see something fresh :-) wonderful!

go1dfish

2010-07-23, 05:45

Really enjoying this theme. Here are some issues I've noticed:

Selected tab contrast on QT apps is hard to read, the tab is white, and text stays cyan
the X Icon that shows when you hit the reload button on the RSS applet looks to be a couple of pixels high of center
The misbehaved widgets that don't fit in like nokia messaging, but I doubt you're to blame here

Keep up the good work.

Checking out the sound pack now....

Shame on all of you claiming that their n900 looks like a panel from the 1701-D. This particular theme is clearly much closer to the panels on the 1701-B excelsior than the newer galaxy class ships :rolleyes: .

vonbraun66

2010-07-23, 05:57

I really like this theme, but just as go1dfish says : sometimes things are hard to read. I noticed for instance in the foreca-weather application that the cities you choose are put as black text on a black button background. Or in the feedingit reader, read message titles are displayed as black (or very dark grey) on a dark grey background.

I'm sure you will work this out in a next update.

Since i installed the theme I was already wondering a couple of days of it was not possible to adjust the system sounds to a more 'trekkie'-like sound, and today I read that you made a special soundpackage available. Great ! Have to try this out, but it is not available for download yet in the extras-testing at this moment.

vonbraun66

2010-07-23, 06:00

and today I read that you made a special soundpackage available. Great ! Have to try this out, but it is not available for download yet in the extras-testing at this moment.

Downloadable since a few minutes !

RogerTHAcctant

2010-07-23, 06:47

LOL i love the theme and the theme sounds, it's like it turned my phone into r2d2

how would i change the sounds back though? simply changing themes?

ian_ryge

2010-07-23, 07:32

LOL i love the theme and the theme sounds, it's like it turned my phone into r2d2

how would i change the sounds back though? simply changing themes?

Unfortunately, the custom sounds remain in use regardless of which theme is selected (as noted in the package description). To restore the original sounds, just uninstall the Okuda/LCARS sounds package. Obviously, since the theme is packaged separately, you can still use it without the sounds, or vice versa. See this post (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=761589) for details about the sounds package.

ian_ryge

2010-07-23, 07:37

One thing I would like to see is green or blue separation lines in lists.
eg. A line between each contacts, calendar and selection lists.
Without it, it just doesn't look as nice and is harder to use imo.

I intentionally removed those, but I'll consider bringing them back. No promises...

Selected tab contrast on QT apps is hard to read, the tab is white, and text stays cyan

That actually affects some non-Qt apps as well. I'll definitely try to fix that.

the X Icon that shows when you hit the reload button on the RSS applet looks to be a couple of pixels high of center

The stop and reload icons for the RSS desktop applet are also used in the RSS application. To make the RSS applet look consistent with the other applets, I raised its button graphics and icons a few pixels, which left the icons off-center when used in other places. Since it's not a functional problem (and it's kind of hard to fix) it's not at the top of my list, but I'll figure something out eventually.

Shame on all of you claiming that their n900 looks like a panel from the 1701-D. This particular theme is clearly much closer to the panels on the 1701-B excelsior than the newer galaxy class ships :rolleyes: .
Heh I wasn't going to say anything, but right you are. :)

I noticed for instance in the foreca-weather application that the cities you choose are put as black text on a black button background. Or in the feedingit reader, read message titles are displayed as black (or very dark grey) on a dark grey background.

I'm sure you will work this out in a next update.

Thanks for the vote of confidence, but I don't actually think I can fix those... The Okuda theme only sets a few colors to black, and all of them are intentional. I'm fairly certain that any black text on dark backgrounds is a result of the application not being fully/properly themeable. For example, it looks like ForecaWeather is using the theme-defined ButtonTextColor (which is black in the case of the Okuda theme) on top of dark-grey custom button graphics which cannot be themed. Essentially if an app doesn't use themeable graphics, it shouldn't use the theme-defined text colors either, or you'll inevitably see usability issues like this with certain themes. The FeedingIt reader issue is a little harder to pinpoint... but again, I don't think the theme is at fault, but rather the app's use of non-standard/theme-unfriendly UI elements.

Please keep posting here if you find more unusable or non-ideal text colors; some cases I'll probably be able to fix, others are out of my control. Having looked at the cases you described, I'd suggest filing bugs with the developers of those apps.

magullo

2010-07-23, 10:20

Here's mine:
http://media.share.ovi.com/m1/s/2294/a99d01cb34b947448f71efddab3762e0.jpg

go1dfish

2010-07-23, 22:50

The stop and reload icons for the RSS desktop applet are also used in the RSS application. To make the RSS applet look consistent with the other applets, I raised its button graphics and icons a few pixels, which left the icons off-center when used in other places. Since it's not a functional problem (and it's kind of hard to fix) it's not at the top of my list, but I'll figure something out eventually.

Yeah, not to mention it's only visible for a few seconds. But I needed 2 items to make a list ;)

I would like to add a vote of confidence for the blue border on the theme background, it's a nice touch. Right now if you try to line up a widget with the outer line/curve, you'll get some shadow where the widget meets the line. This would probably be impossible to fix without jaggies though.

Really dig it, the sound pack is top notch as well, I have some feedback to leave on that thread as well.

ian_ryge

2010-07-24, 03:01

I would like to add a vote of confidence for the blue border on the theme background, it's a nice touch. Right now if you try to line up a widget with the outer line/curve, you'll get some shadow where the widget meets the line. This would probably be impossible to fix without jaggies though.

I'm not actually sure what you mean... Could you post a screenshot?

gabby131

2010-07-24, 04:18

gabby131

2010-07-24, 15:42

i like the boarders on each pane, now i can set my widgets and shortcuts on a perfect measurement. :)

thanks

Flandry

2010-07-24, 16:00

Kudos for a fantastic job done right.

juven69

2010-07-30, 20:02

it is awesome dude,,
thank u :)

alexff

2010-07-31, 11:31

Thank you for this wonderful theme! Love it.

Unfortunately as already stated text is not readable in OMWeather and in Web2SMS when writing a text messgage (will notify the developer as well).

I can't use now, because it's not compatible with Web2SMS. What a pity :eek:

Cheers.
AF

ian_ryge

2010-08-01, 03:44

Unfortunately as already stated text is not readable in OMWeather and in Web2SMS when writing a text messgage (will notify the developer as well).

The OMWeather bug (https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11036) was filed, and they've already pushed a fixed version to extras-devel.

I don't have Web2SMS configured on my device, and it looks like I'd need to make an account to set it up... If you could post a screenshot of the invisible text, and another of the same screen in one of the built-in themes, I'll try to figure out whether the bug is in the theme or the app. If it's black text on a black background, I suspect the bug is in the app.

Patroclo

2010-08-01, 13:04

My wallpaper is black with borders, but it's not present the strange circle of the ian's avatar. Where should it be?
Something I don't like are the black characters with the blue background , for example in the virtual keyboard (bottom) and in the phone calls (select contact) it's not easy to read.

alexff

2010-08-01, 14:22

The OMWeather bug (https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11036) was filed, and they've already pushed a fixed version to extras-devel.

I don't have Web2SMS configured on my device, and it looks like I'd need to make an account to set it up... If you could post a screenshot of the invisible text, and another of the same screen in one of the built-in themes, I'll try to figure out whether the bug is in the theme or the app. If it's black text on a black background, I suspect the bug is in the app.

Okuda Theme:
http://students.vmk.zhdk.ch/~frigerio/temp/OkudaThemeScreenshot.png

Nokia NSeries Theme (PR1.2):
http://students.vmk.zhdk.ch/~frigerio/temp/NokiaNSeriesScreenshot.png

Thanks

ian_ryge

2010-08-01, 21:30

My wallpaper is black with borders, but it's not present the strange circle of the ian's avatar. Where should it be?

It's labeled "Image Set - Okudagram" in the list of backgrounds. The theme's default background (with just the blue outline) is labeled "Theme - Okuda".

Something I don't like are the black characters with the blue background , for example in the virtual keyboard (bottom) and in the phone calls (select contact) it's not easy to read.

Sorry, but I don't really want to change that, as I like the look of the buttons and don't have any trouble reading them. Maybe I (or someone else) will release a variant with different buttons/colors at some point.

Okuda Theme:
http://students.vmk.zhdk.ch/~frigerio/temp/OkudaThemeScreenshot.png

Nokia NSeries Theme (PR1.2):
http://students.vmk.zhdk.ch/~frigerio/temp/NokiaNSeriesScreenshot.png

Thanks

Thanks for the screenshots. Assuming the highlighted text ("Text marked") is invisible (black on black) when not highlighted, I think it's up to the app's developers to fix it. They should probably use DefaultTextColor there.

Optimus

2010-08-02, 16:49

Awesome theme, you've read my mind! THUMBS UP!
*Brr-beeep!*

Patroclo

2010-08-02, 17:22

For Ian: how can I choose between wallpapers of your theme?

ian_ryge

2010-08-02, 20:30

For Ian: how can I choose between wallpapers of your theme?

You select wallpapers the usual way... Tap on the desktop, tap the gear icon, and select "Change background" (assuming you're using the English localization).

The theme installs two background sets; one with the circular design seen in my avatar, labeled "Image set - Okudagram" (on English-localized devices), and one with just the blue outline, labeled "Theme - Okuda". Both of the theme's wallpapers usually show up at the top of the list when the theme is in use.

Unfortunately the thumbnail for the "Theme - Okuda" wallpaper is actually just the theme's icon, which includes the circular graphic even though it doesn't actually appear on that wallpaper. Sorry for the confusion. Since you're not the first to ask about this, I think I'll edit the OP to mention it.

malkien

2010-08-03, 15:20

another icon/color issue I think was not mentioned
in Desktop menu -> Manage views, the checkmarks on the views are not visible

gabby131

2010-08-04, 17:05

@ian

this theme is cool! soothing for the eyes.

one problem of mine is that i am kinda having a hard time looking on e-mails, which is read or unread, almost the same color. i would do or update any workarounds. thanks :D

@ian

thanks for looking into the quoted post above :)

i just installed the okuda update (rebooting)

ian_ryge

2010-08-04, 22:16

v1.0.2 is now in the Extras repository. Thanks to all the testers and voters!

Changes in 1.0.2:

Made contact and bookmark desktop widget thumbnails opaque
Changed ActiveTextColor (E-mail message list, etc) (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=762871#post762871)
Changed AccentColors (names in IM/SMS conversations)
Changed small notebook/tab graphics (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=761739#post761739)
Changed RSS desktop widget (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=761739#post761739)
Changed theme icon (theme selection dialog)
Changed virtual keyboard button clicked state
Made tick mark icons visible in Manage views dialog (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=774397#post774397)
Made Media player desktop widget icons larger
Added list line dividers (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=760048#post760048)
Removed general_sms icon (may eventually be re-added along with other icons like it)

http://static.maemo.org/style_maemo2009/img/icons/application_install.png (http://maemo.org/downloads/product/raw/Maemo5/hildon-theme-okuda/?get_installfile)
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pindu

2010-08-06, 15:10

ironm8

2010-08-06, 15:44

this theme is fantastic! thank you! :)

akincisor

2010-08-06, 21:04

v1.0.2 is now in Extras-testing (http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-testing#How_to_activate_Extras-testing), so please test and vote (http://maemo.org/packages/package_instance/view/fremantle_extras-testing_free_armel/hildon-theme-okuda/1.0.2/) again.

Changes in 1.0.2:

Made contact and bookmark desktop widget thumbnails opaque
Changed ActiveTextColor (E-mail message list, etc) (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=762871#post762871)
Changed AccentColors (names in IM/SMS conversations)
Changed small notebook/tab graphics (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=761739#post761739)
Changed RSS desktop widget (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=761739#post761739)
Changed theme icon (theme selection dialog)
Changed virtual keyboard button clicked state
Made tick mark icons visible in Manage views dialog (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=774397#post774397)
Made Media player desktop widget icons larger
Added list line dividers (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=760048#post760048)
Removed general_sms icon (may eventually be re-added along with other icons like it)

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I'm seeing this weird problem in the application manager where the themes icons appear when it starts, but then the default icons show up.

Any idea what's going on?

ian_ryge

2010-08-06, 22:04

i love this theme best one ive seen so far but ive been having a problem where the phone freezes and i have to turn the phone on and off to get it wotking again. happened about a dozen times since installing it yesterday. do you know what the problem might be ian?

I have no idea why that's happening, but I don't think it could be caused by the theme... The Okuda theme doesn't do anything differently from the other themes (aside from covering a larger number of icons than most). No custom transitions, and nothing else out of the ordinary... Since no one else has reported any problems like this with the theme, I think there must be something else wrong on your phone. Did you install or change anything else around the time the crashes started?

If all else fails, I'd suggest backing up and flashing (http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_tablet_firmware#Updating_.26_Flashing _your_device) your N900. Sorry I don't have a better answer for you. :/

I'm seeing this weird problem in the application manager where the themes icons appear when it starts, but then the default icons show up.

Any idea what's going on?

Do you currently have the Okuda theme selected, or one of the default themes?

Maemo automatically caches screenshots of certain app UIs, which it momentarily displays when the apps are first launched to provide the illusion of a faster loading time. Sometimes the screenshot it displays is from a theme which is no longer selected, which is what I think is happening in your case. It should work itself out on its own, but you're likely to see this occasionally if you switch themes regularly. Someone should probably file a bug on that (if it hasn't already been done), but it's kind of a tough one because the problem occurs intermittently and I don't know of any reliable way to reproduce it.

pindu

2010-08-07, 01:31

thanks for your reply ian. i probably did install a few other programs at the same time but to be honest i cant remember what they were. unfortunately ive had to stop using the theme as the freezing problem keeps on happening and it is too much of a pain having to to turn the phone off/on, shame as i relly liked this theme.
as for flashing im too much of a newb to try that.
anyway i have installed the okuda system sounds and they are great and make the 900 sound really high tech, thanks for those.

ian_ryge

2010-08-07, 05:36

pindu

2010-08-07, 19:07

unstalled and re-installed this morning and has been just fine all day god willing. dont know what was wrong with it on the first install.

ian_ryge

2010-08-11, 01:37

Just wanted to note that the text color problems with FeedingIt RSS Reader, OMWeather, and Web2SMS have been fixed by the developers of those apps. Many thanks to those who filed bugs, and to the awesome developers who fixed them so quickly!

Web2SMS v0.1.2-8 is available in extras-testing (http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-testing#How_to_activate_Extras-testing), and needs more testers and votes (http://maemo.org/packages/package_instance/view/fremantle_extras-testing_free_armel/web2sms/0.1.2-8/).
OMWeather v0.28.4 is also in extras-testing, and will hopefully be promoted in a couple days since it's already received enough votes (http://maemo.org/packages/package_instance/view/fremantle_extras-testing_free_armel/omweather/0.28.4/).
FeedingIt RSS Reader v0.8.0-7 is currently in extras-devel (http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-devel).
Okuda theme v1.0.2 is still in extras-testing, and needs a few more votes (http://maemo.org/packages/package_instance/view/fremantle_extras-testing_free_armel/hildon-theme-okuda/1.0.2/).

d-iivil

2010-08-11, 09:49

Vote casted :)

grog

2010-08-11, 14:56

Vote casted :)
Me 2! Great work, love it! :)

magullo

2010-08-11, 15:20

Voted!
Thanks for the good work.
I really like the virtual keyboard.

Bingley Joe

2010-08-11, 21:36

gabby131

2010-08-11, 21:49

vote is in..........:)

magullo

2010-08-11, 21:52

same problem with multimedia here (http://share.ovi.com/media/rosso.giancarlo.N900_public/rosso.giancarlo.10033)

ian_ryge

2010-08-11, 21:56

Love the theme -- just noticed one issue that doesn't seem to be going away with reboots, etc:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4134/4882951891_7d89da54ac_b.jpg

Is anyone else seeing this?

Also noticed the 'Now Playing' shortcut in media player (icon that shows up in the bottom right) is the default.

Otherwise, this is just brilliant :)

Yeah many of the media player graphics are unthemeable, including the now playing shortcut. I'd file a bug with Nokia, but it seems like they don't even respond to bug reports anymore, much less actually fix them. :(

The fullscreen media player controls seem to just reuse the regular media player button graphics (with bad cropping applied for no apparent reason). I could fix that by making the buttons smaller (i.e. just the symbols, without the rounded blue rectangle behind them). I don't really want to release an update just for that, but I'll probably change it if/when I get some more bug reports to fix at the same time.

Bingley Joe

2010-08-11, 22:08

I could fix that by making the buttons smaller (i.e. just the symbols, without the rounded blue rectangle behind them). I don't really want to release an update just for that, but I'll probably change it if/when I get some more bug reports to fix at the same time.

Yeah it's definitely not dire enough to warrant you going to any trouble over.. I just wanted to be sure there wasn't something off about my particular install. :)

LABAUDIO

2010-08-21, 21:28

Very nice theme...always the''color'' and sheme i want of my mobile device.

in 2100 and more (if we get there lol ) we got always the lcars and similar sheme and UI.

I like this!

mrover

2010-08-22, 18:13

Great theme.
Is there any chance that you will create matching video for booting? :D

Also, I can't see any background,only blue frames on black. When I'm trying to choose "Theme - Okuda" it marks "Okudagram".
I'm using freshly reflashed PR1.2 and only apps from Extras.

ian_ryge

2010-08-24, 00:21

Great theme.
Is there any chance that you will create matching video for booting? :D

Sorry but no, I'm too busy with other stuff.

Also, I can't see any background,only blue frames on black. When I'm trying to choose "Theme - Okuda" it marks "Okudagram".
I'm using freshly reflashed PR1.2 and only apps from Extras.

The "Theme - Okuda" wallpaper is just the blue outlines on black, and "Image set - Okudagram" has the circular design on one of the four screens. Do you have all four desktops enabled? Can you select other wallpapers? I'm not sure what could be causing the problem you're having, but if it's still happening I'd suggest removing, reinstalling, and reapplying the theme, and then rebooting.

pindu

2010-09-02, 22:16

appreciate youre busy with other stuff ian but any chance of making other color combinations available in an add-on pack?

ian_ryge

2010-09-10, 05:31

appreciate youre busy with other stuff ian but any chance of making other color combinations available in an add-on pack?

Maybe, but not right away.

deyons

2010-09-16, 03:34

Dude I love this theme! First thing people say when they pick up my phone is..How do i use this thing!

pindu

2010-09-16, 04:03

its a great theme

Temujin

2010-09-21, 21:35

I really like this theme. Thankyou!

There were a bunch of media player icons not being used so I moved them over manually into default. I really like them, too. And I swapped the default buttons back in to avoid the size conflict. They don't really match but will be ok. I may try make new ones if I can find an easy png editor.

With LCARS fonts on some beecons the machine look really neat. Thanks again!

famdango

2010-09-27, 12:47

Okuda theme for me is the best looking N900 theme around, and computerfont.ttf really adds the finishing touch.... lovin the way my tablet looks now :)

http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/137/l_605de6fc735740bab383daabde93de91.png

http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/127/l_0aa379382d5d4c52a30ad2bdc0f3421a.png

http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/148/l_b0af1c5f641849e9812254ae3906a76f.png

:D

Flandry

2010-09-27, 13:06

TiagoTiago

2010-10-03, 20:08

Could someone please make somthing for me to be able to tweak all the colors in this in the device itself? (the original is already great, but i'm a customization junky)

d-iivil

2010-10-04, 06:04

Could someone please make somthing for me to be able to tweak all the colors in this in the device itself? (the original is already great, but i'm a customization junky)

With Theme Customizer you can tweak font colors.

TiagoTiago

2010-10-04, 15:17

I wanna tweak buttons backgrounds and other GUI elements as well

ian_ryge

2010-10-04, 22:28

I've read back through the last few pages and don't see a mention of this: the labels for the fields of "Address" in Contacts when adding a new address don't show up. Does anyone have a workaround for this?

Unfortunately, there's nothing I can do about that, because it's actually a bug in the contact app itself. (It uses the theme's ButtonTextColor on non-button objects, resulting in invisible text.) I could change the ButtonTextColor in the theme, but that would change the look of buttons everywhere, and the theme's current colors work fine with any correctly-built UI. I did file a bug (https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11014) which you could vote on, but Nokia has already said they'll only fix "critical" bugs in Maemo 5 at this point so I doubt this one will be resolved.

I wanna tweak buttons backgrounds and other GUI elements as well

You could modify theme images on your device (they're in /opt/usr/share/themes/okuda/images/ and /opt/usr/share/icons/okuda/) but then you'd have to work on one image at a time, and you'd have no easy way to share your modifications.

The better option would be to download the theme source (http://maemo.org/packages/source/view/fremantle_extras_free_source/hildon-theme-okuda/1.0.2/), make your changes in the SVG templates (they were made with Inkscape, but you could actually make batch color changes to the SVG files with search/replace in a text editor), export the modified SVGs as PNGs, and rebuild the theme (http://wiki.maemo.org/MADDE/Theme_building). If you do this, be sure to look through all the text files in the source and change them as needed (add your name/email to the maintainer field, change the package name, theme name, etc.) I'd be happy to look over your modified source before you upload it to extras-devel if you want.

agentsmith

2010-10-09, 23:47

can you tell me what the filename of the theme is? I want to change the default media player widget.

lolloo

2010-12-26, 05:27

my favourite since it was out!!!!

THANK YOU

can you optimize speed please?

wakkamis

2010-12-26, 05:52

kenton

2010-12-30, 08:06

wow. . . Looking cool. Really very nice dude. That theme make me mad. Thanks for sharing man. . . :)

Thargor

2011-02-12, 12:42

made a background for this a while back. to be used with live wallpaper and the flash player.

I turned the graphic into a clock with date display. Then there are just a bunch of random number in the lower right.

Enjoy.

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/702/okudass01.jpg

Link:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OW42V5JQ

original post: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=851977#post851977

Sorry for the noobish question but i've downloaded this to use with my okuda theme but have no idea how to set it as the background. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Stefan

EDIT: Actually figured it out, recently reflashed and didn't re-install KMplayer. Its not often i feel the need to ask questions on here, but this did boggle my mind for a whole day lol