"PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE POST OR YOU WILL
BE TERRIBLY CONFUSED
.... and no one wants that"
"...This one has consumed A LOT
of thought and time.
Here's the premise:
Depending on what background you pair
with it, it can look like a TOTALLY DIFFERENT
theme. And the great news is, you can
change between all of your "sub-themes"
just by switching backgrounds. Here's what I mean:
(these are unaltered, straight off my ipod
Of course, this theme also looks great on top
of any background you choose:
BUT... there are a couple of catches!
1.) This only works with FOUR icons on your dock
2.) Your # of visible apps must be divisible
by FOUR, so that the bar will stretch all
the way across... and ideally they fill up the
page. There might be a way to use dummy apps to
fill out the bar... but this is further
complicated by no. 3... I know this is a problem,
and I am currently working on it.
3.) In order to make a transparent bar fully
spanning the desktop without any overlap... I had
to make TWO versions of every icon (This is due to
the offsets the icons --1-2-3-4--) One version is
for apps that fall at the beginning or in the middle
of the row and is denoted by a "_bm" following the
icon name. The other version is for apps that fall
at the end of the row and is denoted by a "_e"
following the icon name.
The DEFAULT for this set is for the following icons
to fall at the end of the row:
Lights Off, PDFViewer, SysInfo, Mines, Weather, Photos,
Notes, Customize, and Books
As a result, you'll find them in the icon folder
with one version being "Weather.png" for example,
and the other being "Weather_bm.png"
The rest of the icons are set to fall in the beginning
or the middle as the default, and the extra is for the
end of the row... for example, you'll find
"Contacts.png" and "Contacts_e.png"
If you want to have DIFFERENT icons at the end of the
row, you'll have to go into the Icons folder and do
a bit of renaming. For instance, if you want Weather
to be in the middle instead of at the end, first
rename "Weather.png" to "Weather_e.png" and then
rename "Weather_bm.png" to "Weather.png"
Whew... all that's a pain, isn't it? Because it
requires a fair amount of finagling on your end,
I imagine it wouldn't work to well on a repo...
but all you SSH-ers out there might have fun with
it. And perhaps it's not worth it to you guys...
and if that's the case, then I imagine this won't
get that many downloads. But I've personally had a
blast making it and coming up with various
sub-themes for it, and I plan to make a bunch
more.
Special Note: Because of catch # 3, I will not
make this theme available on a repo. This theme
simply would not work without the ability to
rename the icons appropriately to fit your
Summerboard.
I have included the wallpaper template for you
to mess with if anyone wants to try their hand
at some sub-themes. I've also included the
original icon template.
I want to thank the talented celsojunior on
Deviantart for "Nature" (T-R), Manicho for
his lovely "Ecto"(B-R) wallpaper... also Jesar
for his background "Quarter Past Midnight"(B-L)
as well as "Null Flow"(T-L).
UPDATE:
I want to send a big thank you to Crypt for
loving and supporting this theme while I've
moved on to other things. I REALLY APPRECIATE
how much work he's put into this and how much
love you've shown Thanks to him, you can all
enjoy the following 43 icons:
psx4all, RainbowLight, Yeti3D, openttd, Photoboard,
Stumbler, snes4iphone, BossTool, Caissa Camera,
ContraSense, Domino, Finder, fivedice, Flashlight,
iGo, IP, iPhysics, iPod, iShare, MAcalc, NES,
PocketGuitar,Poof, Services, Sketches, SMS, SSH,
VNotes, Wikipedia, BlockPuzzle, Marble, RealArtist,
BallFight, Bluetooth, FlipACoin, MusicQuiz, Othello,
PenguinPanic, Tetris, TextEdit, TuneWiki, ZIPcodes"
--The AppleTree
Repo note. I thought this was too good of a theme to
not put into a repository. So after emailing
The AppleTree, it was decided to add this.
Those who want to do the work will really enjoy this theme.
--Skylar