[Touch Cruise ROM Development] Steady Ron:
I have some years experience now with the xda-forum. I'm still very pleased (and that's an understatement) with the existance of it. Besides that I find it sometimes difficult to find what I want. Some of the things difficult to find are the m2d-skins that suits the Polaris with its QVGA. Therefore I had the idea to start this new thread for questions about and some posting of Polaris-m2d-skins, -themes and for skin- and/or theme-developing-questions.

Please give your reaction to this idea by rating this thread.

To make a start, this is my first contribution:

in fact the first real contribution to the world of xda. Most of the credits go to the maker of an KeRohGlass-skin but i can't find the creator of that skin anymore. I used his xml to learn about the correct settings. Secondly I used most of the tabs and pictures. With that in hand I made this one. Most important for me was to make it suitable for my Touch Cruise (QVGA), to have the footprints tab and I wanted the possibility the second appointment shown on the home screen.

I also made the corresponding theme.

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Download (Skin to aply with m2dc). You can install this one with m2dc.

Download (Skin to aply in Windows). You can install this one by unzipping the map on your pc, then copy al the files in the new map to your ppc into the windows-folder. When it asks or you want to overwrite the files type 'yes'.

Download (Theme). Yust copy the .tsk-file to your windows folder on your ppc.

This is the second one, with a transparent tab bar!:

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the mirror for downloading is at the bottom of this post.

Hope you like it.

For this View attachment 191586 one look here at post 212.

Other helpfull things:

Sometimes the second appointment doesn't show properly:

This is the HTCHomeSettings.xml-file to show the theme as it should (copy this to your Windows-folder in case the appointments doesn't show properly, it should overwrite the old one):

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Others:

This is the cab for te m2d-configurator. You need this to install new skins in the m2dc-format:

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This is the thememaker I'm still using:

Download (Thememaker)

You can make (Polaris-)screenshots with this app.:

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Other interesting threads/posts:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=451702

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=427531

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=432965

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=421944&highlight=add+footprints+tab+theme

Some others but not so bussy used:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=421944&highlight=add+footprints+tab+theme

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=425974

RapidShare downloads:

Blackwaterdropsm2dskin

Blackwaterdropswindowsskin

Blackwaterdropstheme

RedBubbleswithtransparenttabbarm2dskin

RedBubbleswithtransparenttabbarwindowsskin

RedBubblestheme

When you've made your own skin (and corresponding theme) for Polaris (QVGA) or when you have one that works fine with Polaris (QVGA) please post it in the skin-thread. Post the link to it on this thread (where you are now). By that way we can prevent double posting and share the fun by the rules of this forum.

Greetz, Steady Ron.

PS: sorry for my English.