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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Subscribed - Hello (and "testing 1, 2 3.." :)Re: Subscribed - Hello (and "testing 1, 2 3.." :)
From: Purple Dynasty <purpledynasty_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 01:11:27 -0400 On Oct 7, 2008, at 11:45 PM, Jacob Rau wrote: > David Hall wrote: >> Purple Dynasty wrote: >>> 1. A suggestion: the Rockbox website should only post themes that >>> are >>> "certified" to work on 3.0 or later builds. >> > I don't see that the content should be deleted, but I do see a lot of > merit in creating a "certification" or a database of "thumbs > up"/"thumbs > down" to track which themes have compatibility issues. > > I know that personally I have problems with themes that set only a few > select parameters (I believe this is what's going on, anyway); > remnants > of the previous theme will be left behind--fonts, colors, WPS > backgrounds--I have seen poorly-written themes do this. Maybe a script > could check the theme to see if it does indeed explicitly set the > font, > WPS background, etc. Maybe the standard needs revising: the theme MUST > explicitly state these parameters... > > I would be willing to do theme testing and possibly (if I can > scrape up > the time) to research and write a VBScript or something similar to > dive > through themes and make them standard--remove unused files, check the > theme's settings, etc. Anything like that that would be helpful. > > I do see a point here, and it would be ridiculously cool for themes to > be seamless--through the initial installer. > I've apparently overstated the number of dead-themes in the Sansa e200 series WPS Gallery. http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WpsSansaE200 Some of those non-working themes however actually contain multiple sub-versions. Many of my non-working themes were obtained from other sites, and I guess work with alternate builds. Is there a plugin that will shrink album art to fit themes like ARWidgets which feature relatively small album art sizes? When I use those themes the album art often does a crop of the upper-left-most portion of the album cover (arbitrary and not attractive). ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rockbox FAQ: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GeneralFAQ Etiquette: http://www.rockbox.org/mail/etiquette.html Received on 2008-10-08 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |