Tango Symbian Theme and an Apple

Tango Symbian Theme and an Apple

Some crab from the internets removed the download links to my Tango Symbian 60 theme. For those who have written me, it’s fixed. Go ahead and give some Tango love to your mobile.

Alongside of that I received a lot of nice feedback on the theme, appreciate it! I’ll fix the small issues like white font color with input fields and more black stroke issues and especially the landscape version soon.

Last but not least for those asking, I am using Carbide.UI on VMWare. It works to some extend “natively” since it is based on Eclipse, however parts of it (such as the tools) are compiled on win32 and NOKIA dev support stated in their official forums that they won’t support Linux due to wasting resources to support a very limited number of developers…

Thinking to create a Summerboard Tango theme (one exists already, however it is not very good) for the iPhone/iPod Touch at times. Alongside I found a note by Nate, one of those early ones in iPhone history who had time and enough brain to hack that thing, that with the new 1.1.3 firmware, Apple appears to already prepare the device’s system for 3rd party applications.

7 Responses

  1. pip says:

    “I’ll fix the small issues like white font color with input fields…”
    thats great! at this opportunity would you please add the qgn_menu_mg_cxt.svg icon to the media folder in the menu. perhaps you will also find a way to replace the office and help folder in the main menu (http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=106903)

  2. pip says:

    when do you plan to do this? :D

  3. Nuak says:

    Are you working on the theme right now? I’ve been trying to modify it to correct some problems, but I find Carbide.ui too messy, so here are some suggestions.

    Some things to add:
    – Tango icon for the Download option of the Menu.
    – Tango icon for the Tutorial option of the Menu.
    – Tango icon for the Multimedia folder.
    – Tango icon for the MyStuff folder.
    – Tango icon for the Games folder.
    – Tango icon for QuickOffice.
    – Tango icons for Voice, and Voice Commands in the Settings Menu.
    – Tango icon for Gmail, Youtube and Google Maps applications.
    – Tango icon for the SMS Inbox

    Some things to fix:
    – Overlapping text in some tabs.
    – The digital clock on idle screen looks aliased.
    – Tooltips for applications in the idle screen don’t have a transparent background, displaying a shadow over a white rectangle around them.

    Could you consider creating a dark tango theme? Dark themes consume less battery.

    Your Tango theme is the only usable one I’ve seen for Symbian. I don’t understand why people tend to create such crappy themes on this platform. Keep up the work, is really really good.

  4. ilGaspa says:

    Any news on the new version? :)

  5. JT says:

    A new version would indeed be sweet. The white text on extremly light gray background bug is a bit annoying. But appart from a few bugs this theme is really great. Have you gone all iPhone or is there still hope for a new version?

  6. jj says:

    Hi, great theme, but why there’s no change until 2007-07-08?
    On my nokia n73 there’s still some bugs
    Bye

  7. aleksander says:

    please update this theme ! it’s best thing for s60!

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