[HighTymes]

Originally Posted by CyberGreg

Okay, manual install method is the same as HighTymes has in his signature.

Download the file I have attached. Remove the .txt extension. You will end up with a file named PackageSources.plist. You need to copy this to:
/var/root/Library/Installer
You are going to be REPLACING your current version so if you want, make a BACKUP copy first.

The next time you load Installer you will see the packages available from my site.
Download Link

Edit: Sorry, I switched the link to the google site to track the downloads. The zip file has a ReadMe.txt file, please um... read it

If he does it the same way as adding my plist then it is going to override mine and add just yours because you don't have my source in your plist is there a chance you can add me in your plist? Or maybe we can just have one master copy between all the trusted sourcers here, would be better for everyone. So far my plist has been downloaded 1377 times, and since my plist has yours in it, lots of people benifited from it because now they get yours too. Just a thought.

[Jasper44]

Originally Posted by CyberGreg

or it should...

with the natural development, now that it has themes, icons are the nxt step....

so.. where does that leave iSwitcher? I'm fine if SummerBoard meets my needs to swap icons then most likely iSwitcher will go the way of iDecor

Damn, you were spot on CyberGreg.

[CyberGreg]

Originally Posted by Jasper44

Damn, you were spot on CyberGreg.

yup... iSwitcher... R.I.P......

[NetMage]

iSwitcher's UI is still great - if Summerboard used the filesystem to switch themes eventually (Summerboard/ActiveTheme?) with links to the originals, then iSwitcher could work with that.

BTW, I see 2.1 really is out...

Awesome new prefs option - turn Theme Dock/Wallpaper/Status Bar/Icons on and off.

Five Icon Dock option added.

[lupinglade]

You guys asked for it, so here's the official deal... I am the SummerBoard dev, here to answer your questions.

- Indeed, SummerBoard 2.1 supports full themes including icons. More about this below.
- A page for SummerBoard and the new AppTapp will be up soon!
- SummerBoard is free and will remain free.
- We're excited to see what themes you guys can come up with!

Now, more about the theme support. First off, icons, as thats the biggie here it seems. SummerBoard supports icon themes in the "proper" way. That is, SummerBoard, unlike other previous solutions, *does not* overwrite original application icons. Instead, the icons are replaced on the fly. That means that when you update an application, you will not lose your custom icons! What it also means is that its very easy to create icon themes, as you just dump all your icons in the Icons folder of the theme and name them as the app. There is one special icon name, that is "Generic.png", it can be used to override all *unthemed* icons, if your theme really needs this to complete its look. Do not use this if you do not need it, as your theme's users may not like it.

Now, onto the format of a theme. Here's the directory structure in /var/root/Library/SummerBoard/Themes/

You have a folder per theme in there, with the following structure:

ThemeName/StatusBar.png << Status bar image (optional, 320x20 PNG, no alpha)
ThemeName/Wallpaper.png << The wallpaper (320x480 PNG, no alpha)
ThemeName/Dock.png << The dock image for the large dock (320x91 PNG, alpha allowed)
ThemeName/MiniDock.png << The dock image for the mini dock (320x37 PNG, alpha allowed)

Then your icons (optional, 59x60 PNG, alpha allowed) go in:

ThemeName/Icons/

Name them as such:

Phone.png
Text.png
iPod.png
NES.png
etc...

Also, take note that SummerBoard has various appearance settings in its Advanced section of SMBPrefs -- you can use them to your advantage -- for example, try out "Solid StatusBar" -- you'll see what I mean.

Any questions, post here or e-mail iphone [a-t] nullriver.com

Cheers,


lg

[CyberGreg]

Originally Posted by lupinglade

You guys asked for it, so here's the official deal... I am the SummerBoard dev, here to answer your questions.

- Indeed, SummerBoard 2.1 supports full themes including icons. More about this below.
- A page for SummerBoard and the new AppTapp will be up soon!
- SummerBoard is free and will remain free.
- We're excited to see what themes you guys can come up with!

Now, more about the theme support. First off, icons, as thats the biggie here it seems. SummerBoard supports icon themes in the "proper" way. That is, SummerBoard, unlike other previous solutions, *does not* overwrite original application icons. Instead, the icons are replaced on the fly. That means that when you update an application, you will not lose your custom icons! What it also means is that its very easy to create icon themes, as you just dump all your icons in the Icons folder of the theme and name them as the app. There is one special icon name, that is "Generic.png", it can be used to override all *unthemed* icons, if your theme really needs this to complete its look. Do not use this if you do not need it, as your theme's users may not like it.

Now, onto the format of a theme. Here's the directory structure in /var/root/Library/SummerBoard/Themes/

You have a folder per theme in there, with the following structure:

ThemeName/StatusBar.png << Status bar image (optional, 320x20 PNG, no alpha)
ThemeName/Wallpaper.png << The wallpaper (320x480 PNG, no alpha)
ThemeName/Dock.png << The dock image for the large dock (320x91 PNG, alpha allowed)
ThemeName/MiniDock.png << The dock image for the mini dock (320x37 PNG, alpha allowed)

Then your icons (optional, 59x60 PNG, alpha allowed) go in:

ThemeName/Icons/

Name them as such:

Phone.png
Text.png
iPod.png
NES.png
etc...

Also, take note that SummerBoard has various appearance settings in its Advanced section of SMBPrefs -- you can use them to your advantage -- for example, try out "Solid StatusBar" -- you'll see what I mean.

Any questions, post here or e-mail iphone [a-t] nullriver.com

Cheers,


lg

Okay let me be the first to say THANK-YOU, THANK-YOU, THANK-YOU!!!!!!!!

[lupinglade]

PS. If someone is up for making a theme editor, go for it

[LoringStudios]

Originally Posted by lupinglade

Then your icons (optional, 59x60 PNG, alpha allowed) go in:

ThemeName/Icons/

Name them as such:

Phone.png
Text.png
iPod.png
NES.png
etc...


lg

OK,.. So what do we name the aftermarket app Icons.. ? I am a little confused on this one...
Do we name the icons with the applicationfoldername.png? And it will know where to put them?

[s2kpdx]

Originally Posted by LoringStudios

OK,.. So what do we name the aftermarket app Icons.. ? I am a little confused on this one...
Do we name the icons with the applicationfoldername.png? And it will know where to put them?

This is the question I am looking for an answer to as well....

[lupinglade]

I've put up a temporary page for SummerBoard:

http://www.apptapp.com/summerboard/

It will have more information soon.

Yep, name them by the name you see in SummerBoard/SpringBoard... ie.

Calculator.png or NES.png or Chat.png...

[LoringStudios]

Thanks LupingLade! And I am GLAD you guys are on here with us!

2nd-Any chance of support for icons over 60px?
A lot of my sets are 90x90px MAX.. But a lot are around 85x85 alpha pngs

3rd-- My DREAM To have a "Hide all Icons under Dock" button... to hide every app under the dock until you "scroll" up so everything is hidden until called on!! That would be the BEST thing ever because then We would NEVER have to use an "application launcher" again!

You guys are the bomb and you will see my donation soon =)

[CyberGreg]

Originally Posted by LoringStudios

You guys are the bomb and you will see my donation soon =)

ditto and already made my donation

[armadillo]

Excellent job on SummerBoard!!! There are only two things I don't like about it: the name of the app. I thought that SpringRoll was much better, but my favorite name would be SurfBoard. and the icon is kind of weak... But the app totally rocks.

Here is a suggestion. Since SMB will be the portal app that handles the main screen of the iPhone, how about adding an option to place the current days events into say the fourth row. You already allow to skip that row for icons. It would be great to use that space for scrolling the day's agenda...

[giovannifracasso]

if i try to update from 2.0 to 2.11:
"Error during install script execution"

if i try to unistall...the same...how can i solve it?

a manual update?
how?

please help me...

[scr4p]

Originally Posted by giovannifracasso

if i try to update from 2.0 to 2.11:
"Error during install script execution"

if i try to unistall...the same...how can i solve it?

a manual update?
how?

please help me...

I had a problem similar to this and to fix it I had to re-install the BSD-Subsystem. Everything worked great after that.

-Steve