First, congratulations and thanks for the awesome job on CYANOGENMOD.
I don't konw if it's the right place to ask for this but I'm looking for a WYSIWYG theme editor and found nothing about this.
As theme is an integrated part of your dev, I'm a bit surprised nobody tried to develop an understandable software to push the CM9 skinning further.
I know that the common reply is "Unpack a theme and modify it" however, we won't push the skinning level without knowing the code.
I was a skinner some years ago (first one to skin windows mobile on HTC and active skinner of Windowblinds) and I know that a good skin is a skin made by knowing how the software handle it. I explain :
- Where does the bitmap goes ? (even if names of the bitmap are clear enough, it is often not used in every screen)
- How does bitmaps are managed ? (Tiled, stretched horizontally, vertically, both)
- Does transparency is allowed ? In every sections or not ?
- Can we use margin ? If yes, how many pixels are setted to ? (for stretching for example)
- What happen if a bitmap is missing ? Is the default one is used instead ?
- How can we preview this without packing and installing ? o.O
So much questions appear to me and I really would like to come back to the skinning scene with a CM9 theme. However, thinking about testing each bitmap to check if everything matches the goal makes me swear o.O I think I'm not the only one. Sadly, guys that have good programming and skinning skills are rare and I'm not the exception.
So I kindly request to anyone able to take a look to that to make some skinners happy
PS : The only skin I saw that looks really different with an improved work on layout and bitmap was the "Chocolate" from joshuas_79 (Even statusbar skinned, first time I see that !). Bought it and using it ! Congrats to this guy for the job done without theme maker ! Can be found on Google play there :
https://play.google....theme.chocolate
Regards
