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[Windows Mobile Themes] qkzoo:
Transparent Icons

These look nice, thank you very much! Any chance you could add a couple more icons to the package (96x96): SMS, Voicemail, Calender, Missed Calls? Or, just tell me how to make these myself and I'll take a stab at it, there's a few web icons I'd like, too. Thanks again!
[Windows Mobile Themes] teacher1960:
I'll gladly tell you how I made these, but first here are some suggestions for icons, but what do you mean by an icon for "missed calls" In Androkkid you get a small red circle with the number of missed calls you have. If you think about something else give me a hint

Hope you like these
[Windows Mobile Themes] teacher1960:
What is problematic with winmo is that it doesn't support "white". In an icon with transparancy, pure white will show up like a black hole in the icon so you have to substitute white with another light white-ish color.

Another problem is this: When a graphic program like gimp or photoshop compresses a png to a smaller size. it conserves the smoothness of the png by making semitransparant pixels, these are not supported either and show up like white holes in the icons.

If you just index the png it will avoid the semitransparent pixels, but it will scale down with a very crude and pixelated result.

My way around this is to put the compressed png in a frame filled with a very nondescript greyish color. Then I have to eraze all the grey color and decide pixel by pixel which pixels have enough color to let them remain.

This is why it takes so much time to resize these icons. I have to do this every time. In the icon files I have uploaded you can find both an empty and a filled frame.

If you want to try this for yourself you are very welcome to do so but remember that you have test each icon on your phone to find "holes" before you publish them.

PS I haven't tested the last batch of seven icons yet but I will test them before I publish a zip file with extra icons.

PS Gimp is a fantastic graphic program which you can download for free here

Best of luck :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] teacher1960:
Missed Calls

And here's a missed calls icon in three colors
[Windows Mobile Themes] qkzoo:
Icons

These all look great, and wow that was fast! By "missed calls" I should have put "Call History" or "Call Log", but it looks like you got the gist with the icons because they're perfect! I'm probably pushing my luck, but maybe a "Tasks" icon? It's the only request I can think of off the top of my head. I'll check out the app you suggested tonight and see if I can create a few "Web" graphics, thanks again!
[Windows Mobile Themes] teacher1960:
There already is a tasks icon in the icon pack(see thumbnail below), but did you have something else in mind?
[Windows Mobile Themes] itesla:
reg66, can you change this thread's title to match the androkkid spelling so this thread shows in searches :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] surrealbliss:
I have some specific icon requests if possible. I'll also be attempting my own icon pack in the near future.. I'm waiting for this quarter's classes to end first. ;)

SMS like above in the bubble, but instead of a blue bubble, a green one like the MMS.

A voice mail icon

Internet Connection Sharing

Clean Ram

MySoftReset

A lock

3 Icons for the Sound Profile widget

Sims 3 (but I can live without this one) ;x

Thank you so much.. These Icons look great, thats why I hope you can make these so my phone can look even better. ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] burnlea:
New Theme

Am I the first to produce a new theme for Androkkid?

Let me introduce Obsidian, for those who might prefer a more businesslike theme.

It has been developed on a QVGA screen so I have no idea whether it will work on other screen resolutions.

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Just unzip and place the Obsidian folder in the Androkkid Themes folder. It will then be available to select under Settings

The Title buttons (more than shown) can be found in the Obsidian theme folder along with a blank if you wish to make different titles (I can make others if you aren't able to do that). I set the size of the Title buttons to 128 x 32 in Androkkid settings and they have to be positioned, as for any other icon. They can also be used as shortcuts as per normal icons. For example, in my setup, I have the Contact button pointing to my address book.

The 'Lock' Icon on the Home page is not part of the theme but has been designed to match. I have included that icon in the Obsidian theme folder, but none of the other icons.

8 December 2009

Obsidian.zip updated for compatibility with Androkkid 1.2.0.0 (inclusion of TopBarIcons,png) and correction of transparency problem with Edit & Delete buttons

15 December 2009

Obsidian.zip updated with modified graphics

If you like my work, please feel free to show your

appreciation by clicking here:

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[Windows Mobile Themes] teacher1960:
I'll see how quick I can get around to make these

There already is a cleanram icon (the one with the broom) but if you don't like it I can make another. For SoftReset I use the icon from the icon pack called "exit" (I use "Slide2shutdown" myself) There also is a bluelock (ScreenLock) in the iconpack I have that one in green and red too

I don't know which sound widget you mean, please give me a link or something.

Here are some examples, tell me what you think..
[Windows Mobile Themes] teacher1960:
Internet Sharing

Below is a suggestion for Internet Sharing.

With a Globe from Everaldo Coelho's magnificent Crystal themed icons

Edit. Made a new versions of this icon where the arrows stand out more
[Windows Mobile Themes] burnlea:
Daytona theme

This is the last of my 3 new themes:

Daytona

As there doesn't seem to be much interest (or reward) in producing new themes, based on the number of people that have downloaded them, this will probably be my last as a lot of time and effort goes into each one.

For those not familiar with installing new themes, check out one of my theme links below:

Obsidian

Obsidian Noir

Harlequin

Serenity

Brimstone

If you like my work, please feel free to show your

appreciation by clicking here:

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[Windows Mobile Themes] extrapurifier:
Hi Guys,

I need your help and hope someone of you could provide me a solution.

I installed Androkkid and put the messaging application on the screen. I also selected in the settings the type to "Mail". so I have a pointer with the number of unread mails. But, when I tap the Message Icon, the Windows Message Application starts where I have to tap Outllok Email again.

In the settings of the Message Icon in Androkkid the Link is set to "\\Windows\Startmenü\Messaging.ink" (german version).

What I need is something like an addition to the link or parameters which I could set to the shortcut to open directly email. so, please give me information if available.

I need this also to direct access to SMS and MMS.

Thanks in advance
[Windows Mobile Themes] kraski:
In the main Androkkid thread (under Windows Mobile Apps & Games), go to the first message & download shortcuts.txt. It's a list of contents for various shortcuts for various functions. You just use the ones you need to create text files, which you rename to *.lnk files. Then, just create a shortcut to the appropriate .lnk file, change it to "mail" or "sms", whatever is appropriate for the type. My email.lnk reads 20#"\Windows\tmail.exe"-service "Hotmail" & my sms.lnk reads 20#"\Windows\tmail.exe"-service "SMS". Since you mentioned that you're running German Windows, you may need to modify those for language version variations.
[Windows Mobile Themes] extrapurifier:
Hi Kraski,

thank you for your aid. I got already help within this very helpful thread and I am not sure if this is the one you are talking about.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=340974
[Windows Mobile Themes] kraski:
No. That's not an Androkkid thread, but thanks for that link. It's a very useful thread. That's at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=540428&highlight=androkkid & has lots of handy tips, plus there are links to this thread & one specifically for Androkkid widgets.
[Windows Mobile Themes] wmdirk:
Aqua Blue theme

New theme: Aqua Blue.
[Windows Mobile Themes] wmdirk:
Most of the themes on my site now not only contain the theme itself, but also backgrounds and other images for the WMD widgets, and a script to apply them for the most important WMD widgets with a single click. This way switching themes and modifying widget skins is limited to changing the Androkkid settings and selecting a new theme, and clicking the ApplyTheme.mscr script in the theme's folder (you need MortScript installed to execute the ApplyTheme script).

The widgets supported are:

WMD-Clock (Manila and HeroOriginal skin)

WMD-Clock+ (Manila and HeroOriginal skin)

WMD-Agenda (Coquette skin)

WMD-NextAppointments

WMD-TaskManager

WMD-Backgrounds (the widgets WMDBackground1 and WMDBackground2)

And there's a new theme: Nexus One Phoca Thumb.

You can find plenty of screenshots on my site.

Making Androkkid look great has never been easier :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] wmdirk:
New theme: XBox.
[Windows Mobile Themes] thesecondsfade:
Making this program an option as a Today Plugin like how iPhoneToday does it is the feature that would urge me to use the program as my primary launcher.
[Windows Mobile Themes] wmdirk:
Green Alien theme

Another new theme: Green Alien.
[Windows Mobile Themes] teacher1960:
Man that is so cool:D
[Windows Mobile Themes] thedicemaster:
i made an androkkid skin based on the blueblack WM6.5.3 skin made by amarullz link

it works best in combination with that skin.
[Windows Mobile Themes] godgodgod:
O(∩_∩)o

keep an eye on this

:)
[Windows Mobile Themes] incite40:
A little more Help

Hi Kraski!

I am very new at this and would like this to work on my phone..can you explain with a little more detail how to create the text files and how you rename to *.lnk files

thanks!
[Windows Mobile Themes] kraski:
Sure. But we either need to move this over to the main Androkkid thread, where this belongs, or via PM so we don't bore everyone else with the details. ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] incite40:
Okay...like I said I am very new to this so lead the way to the main Androkkid thread...Please
[Windows Mobile Themes] wmdirk:
Androkkid resources:

- XDA main thread

- XDA themes thread

- XDA widgets thread

- WMD-Soft (my site with widgets and themes)
[Windows Mobile Themes] billybag:
Do you have any plans on adding sounds to this theme?

Also, someone should make a Lego theme. that would rule.
[Windows Mobile Themes] thedicemaster:
new theme called oilspill(no, the name isn't particularly a reference to the BP incident)

themed around a black liquid style.

uses the top-bar and default icons from the androkkid hero theme.
[Windows Mobile Themes] surrealbliss:
All of the icons look and work great! I'll post screen shots soon so you can see how they look. I'm scaling them all down to the following sizes through Androkkid: 46, 42, 36, 30 and they all look great, except the calendar one you posted above which has a big missing section.

I've finally got my phone all re-configured since I lost everything and now I know all of the icons that I would be using... I hope you don't mind if I post some more here, as they will probably be useful to more people than myself.

Task Manager - links to running programs not list of to-do's, I currently use the check mark you posted above for the to do list type tasks.

MySoftReset - I use your exit for MyShutdown, and it looks really great. The stock icon on this is a green square with arrows like this

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I dont care how it looks though as I know you'll make it look nice. Basically it represents a reboot instead of a power off.

Bluetooth off icon - I used your bluetooth icon to replace the bluetooth On image on the bluetooth widget, and wanted a greyed out version for bluetooth off.

The sound profile widget I mentioned is the WMD-Profile widget. It has 3 images 1 for sound, one for vibrate, and another for silent.

Pandora - www.pandora.com

MusicID - stock icon is a boombox with a ? in front of it. its a program that listens to songs and identifies them.

Omniano - piano program, stock icon is a few keys from a piano

i-nigma barcode reader - stock icon is a orange and white box, can be seen on their website as the fav icon - www.i-nigma.com

facebook IM - could probably be the same as the facebook icon (which I use for the normal facebook app) with a little IM beside the f

I think that basically takes care of every icon on any of my screens aside from contacts which are just fine how they are.
[Windows Mobile Themes] qkzoo:
My Contribution

Okay, this is my first attempt at creating my own icons, including the GIMP learning curve... Mostly, these are web icons, almost all of which I actually used the sites favicon.ico file, which for most major sites you can find here at http://www.favicondatabase.com/.

I do see what you mean now by what a pain in the neck it is. I thought most of these were hunky-dory until I loaded and tested them all out on my device. I then had to go back to each one and delete little tiny specs of white that you can't really see when you're editing each one in Gimp. Any tips to make this easier?

I kept the button theme that you have going on.

Icons are in order:

Accuweather, Amazon, Bing, CNN, eBuddy (Java application that I wanted an icon for!), Facebook, Fox News, Google
[Windows Mobile Themes] qkzoo:
more...

More icons, can only upload 8 at a time.

Icons are in order:

Myspace, Twitter, Weather Underground, Yahoo, Bolt Browser (another awesome Java application), The Weather Channel, XDA, Zerorubbish.com (my site).
[Windows Mobile Themes] qkzoo:
Reserved

I reserved this spot for a few more icons, please don't delete!
[Windows Mobile Themes] teacher1960:
Surrealbliss

I don't have time right now, but I'll take care of the icons you have requested.

gkzoo

I haven't found an easier way of doing this than the one I described earlier, by putting the graphic element onto the frame which is filled with an greyish color and then rubbing out all the grey color and like I said to enlarge the graphic and decide pixel by pixel which ones you can sacrifice and still keep most of the smoothness of the original graphic.

It is very nice to see other people make icons with the transparent frames theme, i got a kick out of that so; keep em' coming:D

you should spend some time for each one, improve and reject and discard quite a few.

But your first consideration should be to make your icons very easy to "get" I'll give you an example. the Bolt Browser icon (an app I will check out later on your recommendation) I spent more than an hour on my version of it (see below)and I am still not very pleased with my version. I have made many that I haven't published because I don't think they are easy enough to "get" like the other example below for Google Translate I haven't published it because I don't think it is good enough.

I liked your Yahoo icon a lot, it is good looking and easy to get. keep up the good work!
[Windows Mobile Themes] qkzoo:
Icons

I like your Bolt Browser icon much better! Did you do the texturing of the ball in GIMP, if so how did you do it? Gimp is certainly powerful, I just have yet to learn all its' secrets :) Maybe for the translater, two text bubbles with an arrow pointing between them or maybe even just a microphone, over the earth? I'll draw a sketch up tomorrow as well as refine some of the ones I already did.

Edit:

@Burnlea: Digging your new theme!
[Windows Mobile Themes] teacher1960:
I'm not a real graphic artist like bluemetalaxe(check out his beautiful iReflect series) or Everaldo Coelho with his free to use crystal icons. I have just begun useing the gimp myself. I mostly use elements I find on the web, logos from the companies etc. To show you a little how I work, I made an icon for your site Zerorubbish based on two icons from Everaldo's crystal icons. You can see the icons I used below and the result afterwards. I look forward to learn much more about Gimp myself and maybe be able to make icons like these from scratch.
[Windows Mobile Themes] teacher1960:
Icons

I hope Everaldo will forgive me for what I do to his graphics, here's a suggestion for MySoftReset

Being an amateur it takes me some time to make these, that's why I publish so few at the time.

For those interested in iconmaking I'll include Everaldo's original graphic so you can see what I have done
[Windows Mobile Themes] qkzoo:
A project for tomorrow...

Don't feel bad, I did mine all in haste, and want to go back now and rework most of them. I have a better picture to work with for Fox news and a few others. Plus, I want to play with GIMP some more and see what I can do with its' texture functions. I feel like a kid in a candy store! Oh, by the way, I love the Zerorubbish.com icon you worked out, looks killer! I'm going to delete mine since yours is much better!

Edit:

Found this article on PNG transparency, hope it helps! http://upwithabang.com/articles/png-transparency.html
[Windows Mobile Themes] burnlea:
Thanks qkzoo:)
[Windows Mobile Themes] taospirit:
HI, this is my androkkid skin. With new clock (Motorola auria style), new signal widget 3d style, new semi transparent BG for appointement, new notify, semi transparent bottom menu bar, for the fotoframe widget a windows style border, new glossy BG for HgWeather widget, and some icons of mine for progs.
[Windows Mobile Themes] teacher1960:
here's some suggestions for the above icons:

Edit! and here's an inigma barcode reader icon:
[Windows Mobile Themes] Lawler:
wtf are those? here ya go......http://iphonetoolbox.com/category/icons/

also search for ireflect
[Windows Mobile Themes] teacher1960:
Wtf are you talking about. Are you always this rude and ignorant?

This thread have only 4 pages so far, if you had bothered to read any of it, you would have seen that I've just recommended ireflect myself, they are wonderful icons but what I've tried to do here is to make icons that still give an uniform look (the glass frames) but integrate better into the scenery of androkkids androidlike wallpapers by using transparancy. This isn't easy to do and takes a lot of work. The result will ofcourse not be liked by everybody but your comment isn't called for. Opinions are like assholes everybody's got one.
[Windows Mobile Themes] tntnt:
Hi!

How do you put the number of unread sms above the icon?

Is there any .lnk that does that?

thanks!
[Windows Mobile Themes] teacher1960:
If you drop your sms button on the edit tab at the bottomleft side of your screen, you can configure it as an sms button not the "normal"default setting, and hey presto!
[Windows Mobile Themes] teacher1960:
I'll post the rest of your requests here as I finish them, starting with the three icons for the WMD Profile Widget:

Now FacebookIM

Next I've made an Omniano Icon from a part of one of Stereo Leopard's beautiful icons (Check them out)

Then the last of the request a Task Manager icon
[Windows Mobile Themes] teacher1960:
New Icons

I'm making some new icons for my own phone, and I'll post them here as I finish them.

First icons for Androkkid and Ifonz2 my two favourite apps

Then an alternative twitter icon

A Skype icon and a Fring icon

Next I've made an icon for HTC GPSTool out of two photographs, with quite much work with Gimp
[Windows Mobile Themes] dcirishman91:
so i guess you unzipped to the icons folder????
[Windows Mobile Themes] qkzoo:
Icon Installation

As of right now, there is no set way you have to install icons. I, personally, put all the icons in /program files/androkkid/graphics/transparent icons, but that's just me. As far as I know, you could even put them on a storage card. Either way, to use a specific icon:

1. Drag the icon you wiah to change down to the "edit" box.

2. Click the ">" where it says "image" and use the file dialog to navigate to where you installed them, select one, press "ok" and wa-la, new icon!
[Windows Mobile Themes] burnlea:
Obsidian Theme

As a result of the introduction of Androkkid 1.2.0.0 by Simo today, the Obsidian theme requires an additional file (TopBarIcons.png) to be added in the Obsidian theme folder. Without it, Androkkid crashes if you select the new Androkkid Top Bar option in Settings.

I have updated the Obsidian.zip file in Post #18 to include this file. It can be also be copied across from the Hero theme folder.

The Obsidian.zip file has also been updated to correct a transparency issue with the Edit and Delete buttons.
[Windows Mobile Themes] teacher1960:
Icons tested (failed)

All the icons which were made after the release of the zip file have been published without testing. I tested them today and found that as usual many of them had "white holes" from near (but not completely) invisible pixels and "black holes" from using pure white (like the Omniano icon) I have cleaned them up and edited the posts. They should now be fine. Please tell me if they are not.

I have also improved(I hope) upon a couple of icons that I wasn't satisfied with. I liked the new Twitter alternative but it was a bit pale. So I made the colurs a bit more intense.

I also edited the MusicID icon for clarity.
[Windows Mobile Themes] surrealbliss:
wtf are those you ask? well... plain and simple they are the icons I requested and they look exactly as I expected them to. You go use your ireflect icons... we aren't stopping you. But maybe when you come to someone elses thread you could have a little respect for those that are trying to accomplish something that they cant currently find anywhere else.

Thanks teacher. they all look great. I'm not at home right now but as soon as I get there I'll download all of these, implement them and then post some screen shots for you to see.

Class ended today also... so I can finally have some free time to work on a set of icons too. ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] teacher1960:
I made my own version of the mobipocket ereader icon. It would probably be easy for a good graphic artist to do it, but it took me a lot of time. It is a lot of fun though and I learn as I find out more about what this free and extremely powerful program (The Gimp) can do. Below you can see the original as well as my version.

PS! From now on I'll put an "X" in front of the file name to signify that I haven't tested it for "white holes" and"black holes" yet.
[Windows Mobile Themes] kraski:
If I ever have time, I'll learn it, too. Gimp can do as much as Photoshop.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Scalar1111:
hiho,

have anyone a transparent or full-black topbar.

Sorry for my English
[Windows Mobile Themes] teacher1960:
OpenStreetMap

At Freewarepocketpc.net I saw that they released the app OpenStreetMap and I thought I should make an icon for that. I wish I had made the original graphich myself, it was taken from here and I think it's beautiful
[Windows Mobile Themes] teacher1960:
While I was at it I made my version of the logo of freewarepocketpc
[Windows Mobile Themes] qkzoo:
Thread Index

@reg66 Will you compile and link to the themes and icons in the first post as they become available? I think that would save people a lot of fumbling through a plethora of posts, as I'm sure this thing will grow.

@Teacher - Will you include my Accuweather, and Weather Underground icons in the pack when you're done?

And for the rest of you, here's my own attempt at creating my own theme using Gimp :) This application rocks! This theme is based on the trailer I used to live in (no trash jokes!)! Ahh, the memories...

Enjoy

Edit:

Updated: Fixed "Paste" to "Delete," must have been tired when I did that! Changed the default notification bubble to match the theme.
[Windows Mobile Themes] teacher1960:
Just before going to bed I'm releasing an icon for the avatar app. based on the same artsource I used for the OpenStreetMap icon

PS! qkzoo I'll answer your post tomorrow