I know it's been a few weeks since I said I was going to try to get this out, I apologize.
I've released what is essentially an alpha test for the Serenity theme, therefore named serenity-0.2. It's incomplete, and may be broken in some ways I've not seen yet. Comments/criticisms/advice on structural and functional aspects are welcome, those on visual style should be limited to points of inconsistency with the rest of the theme or problems like scaling. (specifically, if you don't like the look of the theme that's fine, but don't bother with comments like "I don't like dark themes" or what-not - the point is to present the theme to those interested, and hopefully discuss improvements/fixes, not take a poll of the appeal) Note that this is just an Illume/Enlightenment theme, NOT Elementary or any specific apps. (like Paroli, Zhone, SHR phonegui-efl) I'm working on those as well, however. I use it currently with SHR-unstable and FSO-MS5.1. You can download it from http://newkirk.us/om/serenity-0.2.tar.gz and extract - it opens to a folder named serenity, which contains usr/share/enlightenment/data/themes/serenity.edj and usr/share/enlightenment/data/config/serenity folder holding a few files. Copy themes/serenity.edj and the config/serenity folder to /usr/share/enlightement, then you can select it in Illume Settings under Look->Theme, select 'System' at the top-left to see themes installed globally. (/usr/share/...) NOTE: Wallpaper and Theme, at least, may segfault if you are using Software_16 rendering. Once I'm satisfied that it doesn't break anything, and all the main elements are rethemed, I'll release it as an ipk. (of course, at any time if someone wants to they can extract the serenity.edj file and have their way with it - anyone who wants to enhance or alter it in any way is free to do so, so long as 'simple' alterations like changing some images files retain a credit that the new theme is "based on Serenity by Joel Newkirk" - 'major alterations' or extraction of some portion of Serenity to use in another theme is fine without attribution) What I'm doing: Start with Illume and default themes (anything not defined in illume.edj will 'fall through' to default.edj, like battery and clock) basically renaming illume as serenity, and merge more groups up from default (battery, clock, desktop icon, etc) then work to simplify the structure (graphically and visually - most significantly, making icons two images instead of about eight images each) and shift toward the desired visual appearance. Ordinary buttons are translucent white, though on the black default background they appear grey. Selected/pressed buttons are an 'openmoko-orange' tinted rendition of the same translucent button image. Icons are just icon image at rest, are translucent white when highlighted by keyboard or mouseover (IE dragging on FR) and translucent orange when clicked/tapped. Battery applet is the green one from Illume, but narrower. Tapping it displays the battery percentage and time overlay. GSM applet is the same as Illume but colorized red/yellow/green based on signal quality, with carrier name above signal. Clock applet is more heavily altered, displaying digital time with date below it. Keyboard has been visually/structurally simplified - removing two transparent overlays from each key - resulting in (for me at least) significantly faster keyboard response. (and About:Theme is reworked, though you can only see it if you enable the 'Start' Top Shelf Gadget, then select Enlightenment->Theme from the menu - the animation there is one I've used for splash and busy screens as well, but the FR doesn't seem to have sufficient horsepower to do that without noticeably slowing load times, so I axed them - eventually I may end up with a 'pretty' and a 'functional' version of the theme) Still to do: Several components (like keyboard suggestion popup, tasklist) are still black-text-on-grey-gradient, will be changing to light-on-black. Some visual elements (like left-right arrows on top bar) are still IMHO pretty ugly with software_16, which I hope to fix. I'm hoping within a couple weeks or so to have finished at least the structural/composition changes, resulting in a leaner and faster theme that can easily have any/all images altered to result in a completely different yet still leaner/faster theme. I've also worked on theming Elementary, Zhone, and SHR's telephony GUIs, (just looked at Paroli so far) but haven't yet seen any way to do so without overwriting the original files - which of course is a no-no, being subject to reversion whenever the package owning them is updated. (Can anyone tell me a 'right' way to override them? Does it require rewritten apps that explicitly support theme selection or something?) For those unaware, a .edj file is essentially an archive containing one or more .edc (text) files that define the theme, any number of lossy or lossless compressed images, fonts, and a script to recreate the .edj file after extracting and altering it. So it's possible to extract an edje file (with edje_decc) and simply replace the image files for, say, the GSM applet, then recompress the theme and run with it. In order to get a more responsive 'desktop' it's helpful to: Set Application, Top Shelf, Keyboard, and Status Animation Off (under Illume Settings: Display->Animation) - Play with the settings and see what suits you, I ended up with Top Shelf set to Very Fast and everything else off. These animations don't take much processing power, but the wait while the opening/closing is animated can 'feel' slow, especially if heavy CPU usage causes it to pull back to only a couple frames between the two states. Set Software_16 rendering instead of Software (under Illume Settings: Advanced->Engine) - As noted many times before, display is faster and more responsive, but some graphics look blotchy or jagged with software_16. One of the goals of Serenity is circumventing this, such as trying to ensure that any imagery (e.g. Top Shelf background) either stretches only monochrome portions, or doesn't get stretched at all. Hopefully this will change at some point - Software_16 visual improvements, Software speed improvements, or maybe upcoming changes to xglamo support offering compositing. "killall -HUP enlightenment" - this or some other method (like move/restore a .desktop file from /usr/share/applications) that forces enlightenment/illume to refresh the desktop display once after booting has been documented to reduce E's CPU usage dramatically, such as from 25% to 3%... Presumably the root cause of this will at some point be fixed upstream and this will no longer have any effect, nor be needed. Create a .desktop file with "Exec=killall -HUP enlightenment", mine is named 'relite' (as is the console script that does the same) j _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community