Editing icons in S60 themes by Aquarius

[Viggen]

After some time spent looking for themes for my Omnia ...
I've came across this tutorial written by Aquarius, developer of SISContents!

tutorial link:
Editing icons in S60 themes

sample image from tutorial:



It lets you manipulate contents of the sis file, including icons!

something I've been looking for since I got my i8910

Viggen

[surge]

Hey!!
How about editing the background of the universal screen to be something other than black?
What I would *Really* like to do is make my home screen background the same as the theme background (I use the universal theme).

Possible?

[Viggen]

I guess it is... but Universal is a weird theme... or should I say it's default system theme, so it's built different way... well, as far as I can tell, judging after my 1 week experiance with Symbian OS :P

you need to edit themepackage.mbm ( prolly with MBMConverter )
then you'd have to rebuild/compile the .sis file
I need to look what's in S60 SDK, as I didnt download it yet...

but by the first look, there is a difference between custom themes and Universal theme, just look:





Even Icons in Universal theme are not there... like it's using system icons...

well, I might try play with it tomorrow, dunno...

answering your question - in theory, it is possible.

Viggen

[jonnybruha]

I'm trying to use this tool and a couple others to figure out if it's possible to just swap the skn and mif files from various themes to just get different icon packs altogether. So far, I haven't had any success in doing this, but I haven't been playing with it very long. Has anyone else tried this?

[Viggen]

yup I did try to swap mif files... conclusion is, it's pointless - yes it is working, but each theme got different indexing, so you end up with messed up theme - like icon in scroll bar, or button instead of an icon... not mentioning if you will get icon in place of icon it will be wrong one :P

Other thing I noticed, is if you delete icons details with this app, phone will use system default icons in place of deleted ones (not from Precision or Universal themes)

I was trying to extract the icons set from Universal theme, to be able to use them in theme with background enabled (kinda make a new version of Universal theme), but the .svgb's in Universal theme are some way different then regular svgb icons from custom themes - not able decode them with SVGB 2 SVG tool = in other words cant view them, so still working blind ;/



not a S60 svgb file... lol - it's only with this theme, every other I've tried works fine...

[J3R03N]

yes, this works.

but you need to change all the icons in one simple way and not by changing them one by one.

[fateone]

If this helps: you can view the svgb files on your phone (i8910). Either in the Gallery->Other media or in the File manager.

Have fun (so did I, when I was looking for something in the Universal's mif.)

[Fevves]

Just wanted to say thanks once again to Aquarius for his nice program and also to Viggen who posted this short tut. They made an addict of me cause I constantly discover new things that I can switch and change to my liking and preference in theme I use.

Thank you guys!