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I have created a theme for low-light conditions inspired in part by the bedside clock mode, and some of the other cool themes I've seen floating around here. This is a nice theme for dark wallpapers, and being that it's black - I figure it does the blackberry better justice than an iphone theme
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I downloaded the vista icon pack to use for the primary most-used icons (contacts, tools, calendar, messages, folder, calculator, clock, music, help, search, etc) and modified them in psp so that they appear dimmed until you select it. Once you select one of the modified icons - it lights up.
The glass backing for the bottom grid and upper banner is completely transparent (no shaded bars on homescreen). This gives wallpapers more 'breathing room' and makes the lit up icons stand out more.
The fonts have been adjusted to look dimmer.
The sound button (in normal mode) has been dimmed.
Phone's incoming calls and active call screen have been modified to the onyx theme. I was unable to modify the dialpad though.
A few other things that I was unable to change that will still be bright are backgrounds to: email/word documents, contact list, option screen, and 3rd party icons like weatherbug were not modified. But I think the night icon for weatherbug looks sorta cool being lit up. Third party apps or other icons that look out of place can be moved to their respective folders.
Icon placement can be changed to your liking. I had to move some icons around after I installed. The 2 row grid depicted can also be changed to either single row or 3 rows.
Anyhow - this theme is free for whoever wants it. I thought about charging, but decided I didn't want to mess with the hassle of tweaking it to whoever and everybody's tastes and spending more hours trying to work out whatever small bugs.
I just have no idea how to go about hosting it or doing the OTA thing. If anybody is interested in this theme or wants to point me in the right direction I will be glad to upload it.
I also made a today theme, but still need to test it out.....
The OTA thing is turning out to be more of a PITA than I thought it would be. So I went ahead and uploaded to megaupload. These are the APX files that you will need to load through the application loader in desktop manager (Not OTA links).
Today
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Zen
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Let me know how this works. Thanks!Last edited by oblivion77; 02-16-09 at 09:27 AM. Reason: To add download links
02-15-09 09:52 AM - I have put the finishing touches down for both the zen and the today theme. I found that I can in fact change the background for applications (contact list, viewing messages), but word documents and creating messages/emails still have white screen. Hopefully the final version of plazmic allows us to modify the dial pad. I would like to make that black as well.
Today theme revised with contacts icon at bottom
More icons (browser icon is actually a globe - for some reason this doesn't change on the plazmic screen for screen capture)
Last edited by oblivion77; 02-15-09 at 08:05 PM.
02-15-09 07:55 PM
