[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Max_Pain:
ok Romnpit and everyone involved...I know you want feedback...I have PLENTY. grab a cup of coffee or something and here we go...

1) the wasabi themes

- I flashed a few back to back with no errors.

- there's an issue (from my perspective) across some of the wasabi themes...where one theme doesn't theme as much as the other one, so you have "leftovers"...for example, I flashed the google project, then the red magnum. at least one image at the top of Settings was still the google project one.

- difficult to choose them based on the current names...see recommendations below

2) customize theme

- amazing how much you fit on here. just amazing

- I experienced errors again multiple times at different places where the Aroma installer crashed and I had to pull my battery. it happened first when I went to customize, went next, then pressed back. got stuck. second time, when I got somewhere around the area of choosing the toggle styles, and press back to choose a different style, it froze again. if I go through the whole process without ever pressing back, no problem. but why have the back button unless you intend us to use it? so something is wrong there.

- this process does not cover as many items as using a whole wasabi theme, and I think that creates problems. back to my scenario above, after flashing the google project, then flashing red magnum, I went to do a custom all pink thing to show my wife...I ended up with parts of red magnum, the parts of project google I mentioned, AND the pink I chose (I never chose "leave it", always picked pink or white).

3) backups

- absolutely my favorite part of this. I backed up my current look (manually customized), then did several wasabi themes, ending up with the project google/red magnum/custom pink scenario above...and restoring put it back 100%. so, great idea, great execution.

4) recommendations

- absolutely will reiterate my idea of integrating images into the selection process. even on this thread I don't see the original images anymore, but even if there was a thread with pictures (as you suggested) obviously those can't be seen while you're in recovery doing this process. at this point it's a limitation in the aroma installer, but I'm confident that it can be coded in. here's one way this can be done:

--- list of items on the left, top right has a space for an image. as you select an item from the list, it shows you an image that represents the look of that theme/item. this could be an extra "preview" image created for each wasabi theme and just pulling one of the existing images for the customizing process (i.e. if you select pink arrows, it shows you on the top right the pink arrow image). this requires little to no extra work on your part if the creator of aroma codes it in.

- double check that all wasabi themes cover the same images. it really does not work well when switching from wasabi theme to wasabi theme and have leftovers from the older one.

- expand the custom theme choices to cover everything a wasabi theme covers so the end result will not have any leftovers, same reason as above.

- expand choices to cover text of notifications, slider bar, volume icons, etc. this is a big deal for those of us with already customized roms. in my case, jellybomb. no matter what I flashed, wasabi or custom made, it was red/google/pink/etc + blue parts. some of the volume icons would change, some would stay blue, same for the text under the brightness slider and the notifications. once again, it doesn't work if i'm trying to do all red/white/etc and I have left-over blue.

all in all, this is a great idea and it's coming along wonderfully. I will continue to flash and play with it as you update. I think it does need more work to be at an optimal level of functionality but it's great as it is. I know some of my recommendations are already planned and just take time, so I will wait patiently. I know how much work it's taken so far and trust me I do not take 3000 lines of scripting lightly. I have done both programming and photo editing for many years, so I appreciate what you have done so far...for free!

if you want to talk more about any of the above via PM instead of on the thread, that works for me as well. sometimes these threads can move so fast:eek:

and yes, I am most definitely a jellybomber morphologist! :cowboy: