[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Vostradamus Mobile Shell Manager 5.07

For Spb Mobile Shell 3.5.x

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Featuring:

- Widgets Handling (Preview, Activation, Deactivation)

- Additional Lifestyle Panels (sliding background common to all such panels)

- Additional Professional Panels (fixed customizable background in every panel)

- Mobile Shell Panels Background customization

- Multi Language Support

- Contents Copy from one panel to another

- Panel Layout Backup

- Panels PageCount customization

- SpbWeather Panel Icon set Customization

- Mobile Shell Weather Panel Icon set Customization

- Bottom MenuBar customization

- Bottom MenuBar Backup (if you wish to save it before trying new ones)

- Quick links to standard Mobile Shell Panels

- Countless widgets (and growing!)

Click for Preview Images

Layout Examples Images (larger than picasa)

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ChangeLog:

(08 Jul 2011)

Widgets Libraries:

New tiny little Widgets Library containing:

- new Battery widgets skin: Glass Wide - (made on request)

(09 May 2011)

Special Library: "Naong Special" (for vga and wvga only).

It includes the widgets from Naong's Mobile Sense theme and also his Mobile Sense Menubar (made into a 1 button advanced menubar)

All credits for the graphics go to Naong, of course.

Credits also included in the library itself.

The library does

not

contain preview images for the widgets, so don't worry if they do not show up in the "Preview Widget" menu of MsM: they will be there in the "Activate Widget" menu.

(21 Feb 2011)

Advanced Menubar Libraries:

New Advanced Menubar Library containing new "Curve Pink" adv menubar - (made on request)

(16 Feb 2011)

Widgets Libraries:

New tiny little Widgets Library containing:

- new Status widgets skin: Labels Pink - (made on request)

(14 Feb 2011)

Widgets Libraries:

New tiny little Widgets Library containing:

- new color for the Big Box Rounded Link skin: Pink, both normal and empty link - (made on request)

- new color for the Hearts Link skin: Pink - (made on request)

(31 Jan 2011)

Widgets Libraries:

New tiny little Widgets Library containing:

- new Weather skin: Location (only shows the set Location for MS weather widget, available in black and white text) - (made on request)

(29 Sep 2010)

Widgets Libraries:

New Widgets Library containing:

- new Link skin: DateLike (same graphics as the standard current date widget) - (made on request)

- New Colors for "Neon" Status Widget: Gold and Orange (made on request)

- New Colors for "Modern Combo" digital clock: Gold and Orange (made on request)

- New Colors for "Small Box Original" link skin: Gold and Orange (made on request)

- New Status Widget: Invisible 2 (same graphics as standard status widget, but visible only with incoming items. No counter) - (made on request)

- New additional versions for the "Glass" digital clocks, keeping the leading 0 on 1digit hours (made on request)

(05 Aug 2010) ---> Last update before my holidays :D

Widgets Libraries:

New Widgets Library containing:

- new Digital Clock set: HTCFont Large (White, Black, Blue, Cyan, Green, Red, Yellow) - (made on request)

- new Links set: Blocky (White, Black, Blue, Cyan, Green, Red, Yellow) - (made on request)

Menubar Libraries:

New Advanced Menubar Library containing:

- "Curved Black" advanced menubar - (made on request)

(30 Jul 2010)

MsM 5.07:

- Extended Advanced Menubar usage to 240x240 and 320x320 devices. All currently available advanced menubars converted to work on these devices too

IMPORTANT: installing version 5.07 alone is not enough to make menubars work on square screen devices, you also need to download and import either the latest menubar library or the updated full library

- Optimized menubar change script

- BugFix: sometimes while activating a menubar the available menubars could show up in the wrong order. Fixed

- BugFix: sometimes when activating the last widget of a category it could remain in the list even after activation. Fixed.

Menubar Libraries:

New Advanced Menubar Libraries containing all the current advanced menubars updated to work on square screen devices

Widgets Libraries:

New Widgets Library containing:

- New Status Widgets Set: Pro (same graphics as the Professional one, number box with different colors: Blue, Cyan, Green, Yellow) - (made on request)

- New Status Widgets: Empty (completely invisible status widgets, available in 2 sizes) - (made on request)

- New Status Widget: Plain (made on request)

- New Battery Widget: Plain Vertical (made on request)

- New Digital Clock Skin: Date Numbers (only shows the month/day numbers, no time) - (made on request)

- New Current Date Skin: Day Name (only shows the day name, no number or month) - (made partially on request)

(26 Jul 2010)

Widgets Libraries:

New Widgets Library containing:

- New Link Skin: Glass Circle, also empty (made on request)

- New Link Skin: Glass Hexagon, also empty (made on request)

- New Backing Panel: Glass Large (made on request)

Menubar Libraries:

New Advanced Menubar Library containing:

- "Curve" advanced menubar (made partially on request)

(19 Jul 2010)

MsM 5.06:

- Support for Advanced Menubars with MS icons

- BugFix: activating/deactivating the last widget of a category was making the last-but-one disappear from the list for no reason. Fixed.

- Added function for automatic scheduled change of Lifestyle Home wallpaper. It can be scheduled daily, weekly or monthly and it chooses a new random jpg wallpaper from a user-chosen folder.

Best (and easiest to find on the net) sizes for wallpapers are:

-----	Desktop Wallpaper size if you have a widescreen device (WVGA – WQVGA)

-----	Widescreen Desktop Wallpaper size if you have a non-widescreen device (VGA – QVGA)

Menubar Libraries:

New Advanced Menubar Library containing:

- "Spb Style" advanced menubar (same graphics of the standard spb one, but with 1 to 4 customizable links with spb icons)

- "Icon Buttons" advanced menubar (1 to 4 customizable glass buttons with spb icons)

(14 Jul 2010)

Widgets Library:

New Widgets Library containing:

- Black & White Hub Links skin set (Agenda, Apps, Games, Grandkids, Home, Internet, Media, Music, People, People2, Pictures, Settings, Video, Weather, Work) - (made on request)

- New Empty Link skin set: Neon Empty Big (White, Blue, Cyan, Green, Red, Yellow, Magenta) - designed by Jotha, sized to accomodate a "small" sized contact widget

- New Special Combined Widget: Neon Silhouette Combo (battery, analog clock, weather) - designed by Jotha

Menubar Library:

New Menubar Library containing:

- new manubar: No Text 3 Buttons (links to launcher, agenda, contacts) - (made on request)

(07 Jul 2010)

MsM 5.05:

- Enabled spb task manager during MsM installation

- Panel Wallpaper functions now remember the last selected folder

- Raised max selectable pagecount to 9

- Extended “Change Pagecount” function to Lifestyle Home and Professional Home screens

Widgets Library:

New Widgets Library containing:

- New Battery Skin: Status Pro 5% (looks like the "status pro" one, works better on devices with a 10% steps battery driver) - (made on request)

- New Status Skins: Glass Blue, Cyan, Green, Yellow (made on request)

- New Analog Clock Skin: Doc3000 gtx (thanks to Doc3000 for this clock) - (made on request)

- New Weather Skin: Neon Silhouette 2 - designed by Jotha

- New Contact Skin: Extra Small - fits nicely on empty glass and neon links - designed by Jotha

- New Battery Skin: Glass 2 (made on request)

(30 Jun 2010)

Widgets Library:

New Widgets Library containing:

- New Battery: White/Gray Dots (made on request)

- New Battery: Status Pro (made on request)

- New Link skin: Special Audio (to be used for the profile widget) - (made on request)

- New Panels: Time (2 sizes) - (made on request)

- New Digital Clock set: Reflection Medium (white, black, blue, cyan, green, red, yellow) - (made on request)

- New Digital Clock set: Date Only (white, black, blue, cyan, green, red, yellow) - (made on request)

- New Digital Clock skin: Glass Date Line

- New Current Date skin: Glass Square

- New Panel2: Glass Big Square (2 sizes)

- New: Full Libraries now contain everything (widgets, menubars, advanced menubars, ms weather icon sets, spb weather icon sets). Only things left out are the pic-sets (this is to avoid too large files to download)

(23 Jun 2010)

Widgets Library:

New Widgets Library containing:

- New Digital Clock: TimePanel (lookalike of the one in the Time panel) - (made on request)

- New Digital Clocks set: Neon 7 Segments Medium (white, blue, cyan, green, red, yellow) - (made on request)

- New Digital Clocks set: Neon 7 Segments Small (white, blue, cyan, green, red, yellow) - (made on request)

- New Hub Link skin: Grandkids - (made on request)

- New Status Widget skin: Dark Transparency with Red on incoming items - (made on request)

- New Battery: Neon Silhouette 2 (designed by Jotha)

- New Themed Widgets Set: Glass. The set includes:

--- Analog clock

--- Digital clock (2 sizes)

--- Battery

--- Status

--- Link

--- Empty Link

--- 2 Backing panels

(18 Jun 2010)

MsM 5.04:

- Added Task Manager to the panels list for the SPB Panel Wallpaper function

- Inject Any XML function now remembers the last used folder

- Added Lifestyle Home, Professional Home and all user-defined panels to the possible options for Advanced Menubars

- When selecting one of the above panels as a function for the menubar, MsM will ask if it needs to work in “Link” or “Carousel” mode. Difference is:

----- Link mode: opens like tapping on a shortcut. The panel can be closed with windows mobile “x” button. Do not use Search, Facebook and Twitter widgets on a panel you plan to reach this way ‘cause they would act weird

----- Carousel mode: opens like reaching the panel via carousel. The panel can’t be “closed”, if you wish to leave it you need to tap on another link or to use the carousel. Search, Facebook and Twitter widgets works normally on a panel reached this way.

Menubars Library:

New Menubar Library containing:

- "Invisible 2" menubar

- "Invisible Large 2" menubar

These are the same as the invisible and invisible large ones, but the invisible button links to the launcher instead of the carousel.

New Advanced Menubar Library containing:

- "ButtonsNumber" menubar. Thin, clean look for a menubar with up to 8 buttons!

(11 Jun 2010)

MsM 5.03:

- Update for MS 3.5.5 compatibility

Widgets Library:

New Widgets Library containing:

- New Hub Link Skin: People2 - (made on request)

- New Weather Skin: Neon Silhouette - (designed by Jotha)

- New Link Skin Set: Neon Silhouette 2 (new colors/silhouettes) - (designed by Jotha)

- Fix for QVGA "line" birthday widget where the contact text in case of no picture available was misplaced

Menubars Library

New Advanced Menubar Library containing:

- "NeonButtons" menubar

(08 Jun 2010)

Additional Languages:

Uploaded Dutch language file for version 5.02. Translations provided by Jaco van Dieren

(07 Jun 2010)

MsM 5.02:

- Added Advanced Menubars handling. Advanced Menubars are menubars with a variable number of customizable buttons (1 to 4 plus side buttons).

- Fixed a small issue which could sometimes prevent the correct creation of a subfolder during installation.

Menubars Library:

New (first) Advanced Menubar Library containing:

- "Simple" menubar

- "Star Wars" menubar

(03 Jun 2010)

Menubars Library:

New Menubar Library containing:

- new "Shelf" menubar

- new "Neon" menubar

(01 Jun 2010)

MsM 5.01b

Looks like I forgot a file while building version 5.01, here's the fixed version :p sorry for the inconvenience :)

(31 May 2010)

MsM 5.01:

- Added Full Backup/Restore function to backup the whole current mobile shell configuration: activated widgets, additional panels, menubars, custom backgrounds, custom widgets added through the manager and so on. Due to the wholeness of the backedup data, Backups created with this function will be restorable only on the same Mobile Shell version.

- Import Library function now remembers the last used folder

- Create Shortcuts – MS Panels function now also creates a shortcut to Mobile Shell Task Manager. This is required for the “thin 2” menubar to work

- Small fix on credits visualization

Menubars Library:

New Menubar library containing:

- "Thin 2" menubar - Same looks as the "Thin" one, different links. Requires running "Create Shortcuts - MS Panels" function in MsM first to enable the task manager. - (made on request)

- "Side Buttons Original" - Side buttons (carousel and menu) with the looks of the original ones, nothing in between them. Whole screen height available for widgets. - (made on request)

(26 May 2010)

- MsM 5.00 released

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Download links:

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if you have issues with the above link, try the following mirror:

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Other stuff attached to this post:

- Widgets Creation Tutorial (by Jotha)

- Working with Changing Pics (by Jotha)

- Default PRO backgrounds (should you ever need them again after changing them)

FAQs: yeah, they live! :D

If you have a doubt or a question, please try reading the FAQs in the second post before posting: a lot of common questions and doubts have been answered in there already, so it will be easier for you all to look for your answers and you won't have to wait for someone's reply ;)

Special Thanks to the donors:

- Mike (powercat1) - (Twice!)

- R. Rojas

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- M. Carlson

- M. Zimmerman

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Credits:

I placed the credits inside MsM itself, please bear with me if I don't write them in here too... trying to keep this post shorter than The Lord of the Rings :p