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Download, installed, and tried out dozens of themes- keep coming back to this one. It's nearly perfect on my 9700. Huge plus points of this theme:
1. Eight icons across the bottom means it's much better than the normal six, without being too compressed and tiny like some 10+ icon themes.
2. The two top icon spots allows me to use the right one as a weather slot, and the left one for Beejive. Beejive's icon does NOT resize correctly, so looks awful in most themes; not this one!
3. The stock BlackBerry icons are used! Maybe I'm the only one, but I hate the 'creative, different' new icons sets. There's nothing wrong with the original ones. Half the time I can't figure out what new ones are supposed to be.
4. Selected icons are very visible. Another flaw in a lot of other themes is that often only original transparent icons show highlighting, while third party apps do not... making it very difficult to select them. Stormy-X makes it completely obvious where your cursor is.
5. All home screen info is selectable and useful. Navigate to the clock, it's a clock shortcut. Network icon manages connections. Battery goes to options. It actually makes sense, and allows normal status icons to perform double duty. I'll never understand why all themes don't do this.
6. Proper dark color scheme. My BlackBerry is black. The stock themes are somewhat dark. All menus are inverted black. So why do I need a neon color theme? Storm-X looks like it could be a legit stock theme, and matches any wallpaper I choose.
I keep looking for new themes, but there's always something I dislike- laggy transitions, huge / ugly fonts, fewer icons, less functionality, pointless animations... many look quite sharp, but aren't nearly as useful. Others have really great functionality ideas (like hidden docks and scrolling), but fail in other ways. It seems I will forever revert to Stormy-X! Thanks a ton for making it.
04-03-10 05:34 PM - Download, installed, and tried out dozens of themes- keep coming back to this one. It's nearly perfect on my 9700. Huge plus points of this theme:
1. Eight icons across the bottom means it's much better than the normal six, without being too compressed and tiny like some 10+ icon themes.
2. The two top icon spots allows me to use the right one as a weather slot, and the left one for Beejive. Beejive's icon does NOT resize correctly, so looks awful in most themes; not this one!
3. The stock BlackBerry icons are used! Maybe I'm the only one, but I hate the 'creative, different' new icons sets. There's nothing wrong with the original ones. Half the time I can't figure out what new ones are supposed to be.
4. Selected icons are very visible. Another flaw in a lot of other themes is that often only original transparent icons show highlighting, while third party apps do not... making it very difficult to select them. Stormy-X makes it completely obvious where your cursor is.
5. All home screen info is selectable and useful. Navigate to the clock, it's a clock shortcut. Network icon manages connections. Battery goes to options. It actually makes sense, and allows normal status icons to perform double duty. I'll never understand why all themes don't do this.
6. Proper dark color scheme. My BlackBerry is black. The stock themes are somewhat dark. All menus are inverted black. So why do I need a neon color theme? Storm-X looks like it could be a legit stock theme, and matches any wallpaper I choose.
I keep looking for new themes, but there's always something I dislike- laggy transitions, huge / ugly fonts, fewer icons, less functionality, pointless animations... many look quite sharp, but aren't nearly as useful. Others have really great functionality ideas (like hidden docks and scrolling), but fail in other ways. It seems I will forever revert to Stormy-X! Thanks a ton for making it.
Thank you for the feedback and compliment. I appreciate all the support
04-05-10 08:55 PM
