One thing that is a drastic modification from SummerBoard is that you can have multiple themes installed at once. I have gone ahead and made this change, as documented in the previous paragraph, but themes without this extension will still work. theme instead of just, but by the time I woke up again there were already hundreds of themes posted and it was too late :P. One thing I wished I had done, btw, is spent the extra hour before going to bed thinking through having it be.
png files, and optionally an ist that contains some extended information. Inside of this folder you have a set of folders, a number of. These folders end in ".theme" and are otherwise the name of the theme for example: "Transparent Icon Labels.theme". What is a Theme?Ī theme is a folder that sits in /Library/Themes (or $HOME/Library/SummerBoard/Themes, which is supported for backwards compatibility with SummerBoard, but storing themes there is wrong on a few different levels). WinterBoard truly is the modern replacement for SummerBoard. Pretty much every form of graphic-file related theme I've so far seen (and a few other varieties we may think of) is supported by WinterBoard, all using the SummerBoard model of "the safe other folder". With WinterBoard, I therefore wanted to bring as much power as I could for theming the device down in one simple backend tool as I possibly could, and I think I've drastically succeeded.
I'm looking at you Installer.): the theme sits entirely self contained in its own folder.
This, in turn, makes it incredibly safe: you don't have to worry that the guy packaging the theme managed to think through backups correctly (or that the people who wrote the package mangager didn't think through package conflicts. This lets it swap out icons at runtime without having to actually muck around on disk and swap out the. What SummerBoard really had going for it, though, was how it worked: it hooks into SpringBoard and overrides functionality down into its core. Besides, many more things to theme started cropping up in the community: sliders, batteries, etc. Even this had a bunch of issues involving localization (themes often do not work very well in other languages as icons are themed by the displayed name of the program. This is pretty much all SummerBoard did, though. Also, as it wasn't open source, no one else could continue the project.įor those who don't know that much about SummerBoard the idea is that you should be able to theme SpringBoard: change the icons of applications, use a custom wallpaper (well, a wallpaper at all), and even modify the statusbar and dock. I mean, let's face it: SummerBoard was nice, but it just didn't cut it after a while and NullRiver pretty much stopped updating it after only a few months of work. Here, that means not just creating a "temporary solution": WinterBoard, to me, needs to be everything SummerBoard was and wasn't.
Now, when I do things, I like to seriously do things. Seeing as I just finished releasing a new version of Cydia (which has a number of features people have been looking for in it), I figured I'd have time to solve this: enter WinterBoard. It gives me a warm feeling inside when I see the wallpapers I've taken show up behind SpringBoard, and I haven't been able to do that since I upgraded to the iPhone 3G. This, unfortunately, leaves the rest of us in a lurch. (Also, RiPDev seems like they are going to be selling a similar product via Installer, so its unlikely that they are going to want the competition from anything free.) Unfortunately, RiPDev is busy writing a new Installer for 2.x (the branding for which they bought off of NullRiver, whom I hope made a pretty penny on that transaction), which means no SummerBoard, not for us. Pretty much the most requested application for iPhoneOS 2.x has been SummerBoard.
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