[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Themes and Apps] TheFixItMan:
I dont know as iv never had one

here is an example of one of my status_bar.xml - you should be able to just copy and past that without any compile errors if you wanna try that - just change the drawable value statusbarbackground to the name of your png (if you are using a custom rom you will loose some functionality that the custom rom has included for the statusbar)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<com.android.systemui.statusbar.StatusBarView android:orientation="vertical" android:background="@drawable/statusbarbackground" android:focusable="true" android:descendantFocusability="afterDescendants"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<LinearLayout android:gravity="center" android:orientation="horizontal" android:id="@id/icons" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<com.android.systemui.statusbar.IconMerger android:gravity="left" android:orientation="horizontal" android:id="@id/notificationIcons" android:paddingLeft="3.0dip" android:paddingRight="70.0px" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_weight="1.0" android:layout_alignParentLeft="true" />
<LinearLayout android:gravity="right" android:orientation="horizontal" android:id="@id/statusIcons" android:paddingRight="3.0dip" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_alignParentRight="true" />
<com.android.systemui.statusbar.SignalText android:textSize="26.5dip" android:textStyle="bold" android:gravity="center_vertical" android:orientation="horizontal" android:paddingRight="2.0dip" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="fill_parent" />
<com.android.systemui.statusbar.BatteryText android:textSize="16.5dip" android:typeface="serif" android:textStyle="bold" android:gravity="center_vertical" android:orientation="horizontal" android:paddingRight="2.0dip" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="fill_parent" />
<com.android.systemui.statusbar.Clock android:textAppearance="@*android:style/TextAppearance.StatusBar.Icon" android:textSize="25.0dip" android:gravity="center_vertical" android:paddingRight="3.0dip" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:singleLine="true" />
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout android:orientation="horizontal" android:id="@id/ticker" android:background="@drawable/statusbar_dj" android:paddingLeft="6.0dip" android:animationCache="false" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<ImageSwitcher android:id="@id/tickerIcon" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_marginRight="8.0dip">
<com.android.systemui.statusbar.AnimatedImageView android:layout_width="25.0dip" android:layout_height="25.0dip" />
<com.android.systemui.statusbar.AnimatedImageView android:layout_width="25.0dip" android:layout_height="25.0dip" />
</ImageSwitcher>
<com.android.systemui.statusbar.TickerView android:id="@id/tickerText" android:paddingTop="2.0dip" android:paddingRight="10.0dip" android:layout_width="0.0dip" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_weight="1.0">
<TextView android:textAppearance="@*android:style/TextAppearance.StatusBar.Ticker" android:textSize="15.0dip" android:textColor="#ffffffff" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:singleLine="true" />
<TextView android:textAppearance="@*android:style/TextAppearance.StatusBar.Ticker" android:textSize="15.0dip" android:textColor="#ffffffff" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:singleLine="true" />
</com.android.systemui.statusbar.TickerView>
</LinearLayout>
<com.android.systemui.statusbar.DateView android:textAppearance="@*android:style/TextAppearance.StatusBar.Icon" android:textColor="#0033b5e5" android:gravity="left|center" android:id="@id/date" android:background="#00000000" android:paddingLeft="0.0px" android:paddingRight="0.0px" android:layout_width="0.0dip" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:singleLine="true" />
<com.android.systemui.statusbar.BatteryBar android:textAppearance="@*android:style/TextAppearance.StatusBar.Icon" android:gravity="center_vertical" android:orientation="horizontal" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
</com.android.systemui.statusbar.StatusBarView>