Today, I playing around my SD card, seeing each files inside, then I saw my old skins folder. Yes, it was old since it stored about one year ago from my first E2, the white one (now I own the mandarin color). I looked around and see many older skin like NFS, Heroes, Motohappy, even the Silvery White skins. But it just a start for this story.
After that I tried the skins one by one, just to remind me how those skins looks. While I tried it (one by one), I think that I got bored with my current skins -the QuickLook- and decide to change it. But every skins there was too out of date and many of them was incomplete, I mean they didn't replace all of the basic icons. Then after play with them, I'm going to search my newer skins that I have downloaded before.
Looking around my EXT3 storage (which I used to store my downloaded files) and found a few skins like Ubuntu, Leopard, Vista, Moto Hell, and more... But again, I have used them for a few while before. Then, I found a file that makes me interest, the name was guijq.rar. I can remember that was a skins that I never use. So I opened the package and copy the skin to one of my list. I saw the name was FREE, but I think it should be Freedom or something like that. Oh, the guijq is the authors of the skins.
First time I tried it, I feel this skins was ugly and like a kind of joke. Why? Because there wasn't a pointer or hightlight the selected menu. We won't know what menu we choose. What the hell...? Oh, one more, the transparency was 0..! So why I use this skin now? The reason is I like the softkey, options, header, and many more except the main menu! Since I'm not good in editing skins graphics and I'm far away from PC, I decide to have some edit in the *.ini files there and edit it every where.
So I open the common.ini, phone_p.ini and mainmenu_p.ini with Moby Explorer and start editing it. With a small knowledge (I'm noob), I change the transparency to 50, make a different size of font in highlighted menu (so it's okay now), decrease every font size, change border of header, softkey, multiline, also change the padding. Then I restart my phone.
After the phone boot, I browse around the menu and feel okay, just something to edit or fix and done. So now I open the ini files again and change something. Btw now I set the transparency to 100, change the icon size to 4x4 menu (use a bigger size), then again, restart my phone. Now I feel better with the skins. Here is some screenshot for my new look of my ROKR E2:
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I also changed the font now, from Sylfaen to Teen. :) I also found this font in my old files...lol
Monday, February 4, 2008
My another ROKR look
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Changed my E2 style again!
I changed my E2 look again! Now I used 4x4 big icons, they look so clean. I also change another thing, like font size, style, the desktop and much more. Here is my new look:
How is it? I make the 4x4 perfectly fit in the screen and the 3x3 sub-icon (and file manager) also fit perfectly! The header, softkey and background opacity (transparency) is 80%. The grid font size is 9, list and option font size are 14, also softkey and header are 15 with bold style. The colour of standar is 7F5F00, highlight is AF8F00 and header and softkey are FF6F00. Now it looks clean, right? :)
Ah, I have changed my font too. Now I used Sylfaen fonts, but the skin still same, the QuickLook. :) I like this skin because it light, simple and nice looking.
Friday, January 18, 2008
My new ROKR E2 style
This last few days, I decided to change my font from ROKR Ultimate fonts to Lucon fonts. The reason I changed it because the Ultimate fonts didn't look good in parentheses (()), curly brackets ({}) or square brackets ([]), they look very similar! Since I decide to learn Python, I need to make it clearer to see. BTW I usually writes the code use my phone, with Moby Explorer. :)
So I'm searching of a font that clear, easy to read even in small size, then I saw a lucon.ttf fonts in my ezxlocal folder (it used by Terminal Emulator) and I try to apply it. Well, it doesn't look good! The font is too 'wide', so I need to change the size to fit more charaters in one screen. I edited my common.ini, phone_p.ini, and other files related to my skin (I used QuickLook skin), then besides of edit fonts size, I edited everything! Now I used 5x5 icons in main menu, very small thumbnail font size (I don't need to read it), another small font, transparent border, and much more! Here is my screenshot: How is it? :)
