[WIP] Actus Reus
 

Updated check here!
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...8&postcount=26

This post has some relevance still, though.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/133178/presentation.png

Proudly presenting Actus Reus.

This is not for regular users. The theme is far from finished and there are missing pieces here and there. So, no warranty what-so-ever. I post it now to get some help with the finishing. So if you can't help then I don't think you shall proceed, this is only a kind warning. Most important at the moment is the volume indicator, try and you see what I mean. + Many more bugs in need of crushing.

You need to have rootsh, humanity-theme and droid fonts installed if you want to use this theme.

If you've got these packages then download thishttp://dl.dropbox.com/u/133178/actus_reus.tar.gz file and decompress it to your mydocs folder and run the following commands:

Select actus reus in theme settings and reboot.

Transitions are from an old plastic version by D-Iivil and it contains some elements from the humanity theme eg icons here and there. If the authors have anything to say about my usage then send me a pm.

And this theme is not made by the book. Please be kind and don't nag about it...

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Looks decent... Thanks for the work! :)

My comment would be that the icons being used for apps seem to be slightly dull in color (Like Humanity theme). Similarly, the background for Application Mgr is a bit off-color.

Disclaimer: This is my personal opinion; I'm sure a lot of people will like this.

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The appmngr doesn't do gradients well due to colormode used in the rendering. And yes it's all a matter of taste, that is why I use this phone. :)

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Dude, please finish this. One of the top N900 themes available, hands down.

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Yeah, please finish! And maybe package and upload to repo

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Looks really good so far. Hopefully it can be finished up and then polished and packaged.

Good work.

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Actus Reus, British Sky Broadcasting has stretched its existing Actus View installation. The Actus four stage provides British Sky Broadcasting with multichannel delivery ingest, monitoring and calm showing to proactively succeed the high quality of British Sky Broadcasting transmissions.

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I like this theme, can't wait for you to complete it!

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Nice work, glad so see an inspired and original theme like this.

Keep up the good work, waiting for a release eagerly.

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Just one thing to say:
THIS IS AMAZING!
Please keep working on this

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Thank you for your kind words. Will at least polish things up when I have the time. Have been a busy fall, but I hope I'll get something done in December. There will be some changes, font to Ubuntu's, lockscreen and probably some bg's too. But unfortunately I don't have time right now.

But feel free to use my work and modify it if you want.

Cheers my peers!

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thats the font ive been using since the latest ubuntu release. looks great on the device.

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It's a lot easier than you think to upload to the repo... i had D-iivil helping me out on that. Go and make a user on http://garage.maemo.org.. then do a request https://garage.maemo.org/extras-assi...tation_request

If you are running Ubuntu it will be easy to build a package.. The folder structure must be the same as on the device.

And then just cd to the folder and:
sudo dpkg-buildpackage -sn -S

It's little more than this.. but just to show you little. Great Theme by the way. It goes fairly well with my icon-theme.. just some small changes like active text color (thank god for Theme Customizer). One thing though... my calendar got a "3d" like text. How do i change that back to normal?

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Lol :D
Chucknorris @ gtkrc -file :P

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Well of course ;)

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Great, great theme! Amazing work really. I only have one small problem and was wondering if any one else has this. The contact shortcuts show up w/out a photo. Tried rebooting and switched themes just to make sure it's not a general issue, but unfortunately it is isolated with this theme. Any thoughts/suggestions are welcomed.

Thanks again for sharing though!

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Seems like the "mask" image is fully transparent or missing completely from /images -folder of the theme.

Edit: file is called "ContactsAppletMask.png" and it's indeed missing. Copy the image from NSeries's or Digital Life's images -folder and you're good to go :)

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Thanks for the tip d-iivil. I'll give it a shot when I get home and update this post. Really appreciate your responsiveness to all matters addressed.

Edit: Thanks buddy. That did the trick :)

Edit #2: D it works great if you use the theme as is. As soon as I use Theme Customizer on it (version 59), it makes the fonts extremely small and then when i open my settings, i can't do anything. If i click to any part of my settings it just highlights my selection and is unresponsive. Only way is to delete the theme folder and do everything from scratch again.

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Yes, there are many pieces left on this theme. Most will be added. Before it gets the "base" ready it won't go to the reps, mostly so that novices don't mess things up. Because some pieces are missing it can really mess things up, eg. localization-settings..

The shadowed text is used in a few places. I haven't looked at theme costomizers code. But my gtkrc is quite ChuckedNorrised so to say and I can do a not-so-bold guess that this is the reason why there are incompability-issues with the app.

My major problem with this theme is how inconsistently labels, list and buttons are used in different apps. Not to mention that third-party developers hard-code white font-colors everywhere. This has given me great problems, and the only way around that is to write app-specific rc-styles. Which then on the other hand will make the theme even more slow. And that is not feasible in any way...

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I am doing some minor modifications on your theme.. but fails to find the image for the curving above the radioactive icon. I want to improve/strengthen that corner. It looks now like if it has opacity. What is it's name?

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/20...di-d33mlo8.png

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wmButtonRightHalf.png
wmLeftButtonEnd.png
wmRightButton.png

And I myself have been bugged by it.*I decreased the filling in a dumb way and the result is that the line is not a coherent 1px line but some 0.8px. The dropdown menus are made correctly. You might want to pay some intérest to wmEditModeButton* those are quite bad right now too.

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Thanks.. will do so. Even though it is not finished it looks awesome. By the way... are your volume notification working? Mine doesn't show.. i was wondering if it was my doing or if it already where like this...

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In one way I can say that it is working. But it's too dark to be seen. ;)
The thing is that the volume notifier, eg volume bar and speaker is not a part of the theme itself, but rather a part of the icon-theme. I was planning to create a variation of faenza supporting this but it hasn't materialized yet. But since you are working on an iconset you could very well create a set of light indicators. At the moment I can't recall the names of the icons, but if you browse through the hicolor theme I think you can find them.

Short version, part of the icon-theme.

EDIT:
The icons for the speaker are fond @ hicolor/48x48/hildon/notification_volume*
, I have no idea where the "bar" is located though, and the ui-elements documentation has been less than helpful.

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Ahh.. that explains it. Thanks!

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we all would like to see this theme in repository.

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Greetings!
Things are humming along nicely. I didn't go to work today so, I made some tiny progress.

The result can be viewed below. With Actus reus, version Bona Fide.

Changes:
Ditched the droid font: replaced with Ubuntu. Clearer at small sizes and have a softer feeling. Get it here: http://font.ubuntu.com/
Added: Stylusbuttons.
Shaped up other buttons too.
Working Contacts-widget.
Another wallpaper and different backgrounds. Eg, lucid by Canonical.
New lockslide. It is awesomely wicked.
Shamelessly stole the setupwizard from humanity-theme.



Still need help with one thing before building an installable package. As you know the gtkrc is heavy modified, mostly to get the text-effect on buttons. But the effect is also applied in places where it looks really out of place. And also the volume indicator. So please, help me with this!

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Get it here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/133178/actus...na_fide.tar.gz

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Very cool update. Looks pretty Ubuntu 10.10ish, which actually looks like Ubuntu (unlike the Humanity theme, which is just a few wallpaper and icon changes). Still holding out on the volume banner but it's not too important. Did a few mods like shrunk the "AE" for the task switcher by 33%, flipped a few gradients highlights so that the darker part is on top (looks flatter and inverted, I like it better - personal preference). Theme is great.

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Have there been any progress on this theme?

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I came across the very same issue as AlMehdi. Seems like the volume controls are completely back. I then figures that the main reason is coz of the banner wmBanner being made completely black. Unfortunately the volume speaker and bar are also black. So for the time being, i just copied the alphas wmbanner to the actus_reus -> Images folder and viola, i'm back in action... :p.

Overall, this theme is a beauty and i think i am gonna do a few modifications myself to match my needs :p.

Edit: I think its time I try what i can do in editing this theme to make a few variations here and there.

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Can you replace the menu button with a "normal" icon instead of the maemo logo? Like this theme, is there also a deb installer?

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Could the author give not only the instructions to install, but also the instructions to uninstall this theme?
Thanks

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Try selecting a different theme. Or do you mean deleting the files from your system?

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Delete from the system.

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Open the terminal and then..

1. sudo gainroot
2. rm -r /usr/share/themes/actus_reus

Would remove it from the system.

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no .deb file for this? howto install? thanks!

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Go to the first post and follow the instructions..

But you should probably be prepared to do some tweaking your self too as this is an WIP (work-in-progress) and the author seems to have stopped working on it.

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and when we are going to have the complete version of it ?

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Thanks yotu for theme.
I've a question for you:
What's happen if i don't setup humanity-theme.>>> I maybe use this theme