What's your Theme?

[G-Weezy]

Marilyn,

Get the update in Cydia enable the update on top of the normal theme and Frameless. New UI looks great.

 

[moorken]

My current theme is "Recover"

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[Mickey330]

Marilyn,

Get the update in Cydia enable the update on top of the normal theme and Frameless. New UI looks great.

Oh, I already got that update this morning. And yes, it looks great! Never thought I'd be a fan of red, even though it's a brick colored red...

I've wanted this theme ever since I jail broke my iPad last year and discovered the wild world of theming. Of course, it was only available for the iPhone. So, when I get my phone, it wasn't updated to work for iOS 5, it only worked on iOS 4. I coveted this theme!

Then, when I found there was a beta for the new iOS, believe you me that I had a donation e-mail off so fast! Well worth it.

Marilyn

 

[G-Weezy]

Nice. I should've told you earlier about the new update for iOS 5. Been changing out icons left and right making it unique.

 

[Sleepless_red]

Here's mine.

 

[zig9449]

And "I" didn't say that I had a couple of large themes equaling 5 GB. I have close to 35 themes loaded into winter board totaling 5 GB of data. I have found them from all different sources but most of them vetted well. Themes are written using CSS stylesheet code; a very simplistic code that's very hard to mess up so much so that it would make your entire phone "lag".

Themes that use involved animations or themes that are from pirated sources where "malware" could be introduced into them could cause troubles with your phone. But if you're careful to only load purchased themes or free themes from Cydia itself, then it's not themes that are making your phone lag. What I'm trying to emphasize is that no one need fear adding a theme to their jailbroken phone for fear of it slowing down their phone. That just does not happen that often unless you're using pirated sources. You can't really "poorly write" a theme. It either works or doesn't work if the syntax of the stylesheet is correct or not.

Well your kinda missing something here. Some themes need "plist" to work. I'm sure you know exactly what that is.

These .plist files can sometimes be flawed. This can cause lag. And it's usually not that bad....that is all it takes. But I am not much of a themer....any more. I have tried a few newer themes like Absolution HD. I swear my phone was *smoother* with that theme on. Unfortunately it lacked icons I wanted.lol. Plus, the Dev of Black UPS told me these plist can be flawed. But themes are just very well designed today.

I don't theme a lot mostly cuz just have too many tweaks installed. So theming slightly slows my phone down...not really choppy animation lag, but just slow loading animation. So I choose to use up my extra bit if memory for functionality as opposed to making it look all crazy and stuff.

Tho when I get the 4S, the slightly faster processor may let me theme well with the overload of tweaks I have installed. Idk.

But basically, yeah your rite,....I answered too bluntly about the subject. My bad.

 

[pianoman]

Well your kinda missing something here. Some themes need "plist" to work. I'm sure you know exactly what that is.

These .plist files can sometimes be flawed. This can cause lag. And it's usually not that bad....that is all it takes. But I am not much of a themer....any more. I have tried a few newer themes like Absolution HD. I swear my phone was *smoother* with that theme on. Unfortunately it lacked icons I wanted.lol. Plus, the Dev of Black UPS told me these plist can be flawed. But themes are just very well designed today.

I don't theme a lot mostly cuz just have too many tweaks installed. So theming slightly slows my phone down...not really choppy animation lag, but just slow loading animation. So I choose to use up my extra bit if memory for functionality as opposed to making it look all crazy and stuff.

Tho when I get the 4S, the slightly faster processor may let me theme well with the overload of tweaks I have installed. Idk.

But basically, yeah your rite,....I answered too bluntly about the subject. My bad.

Well - okay. But it's no different with the .plist code. It's either correct and works perfectly or not and doesn't work at all. We need to detach this notion that poorly written code creates lag. Poorly written code, in most cases, doesn't work at all. But I understand your points. And certainly a lot of these kids are downloading 99% pirated stuff. So it's no wonder they have problems.. It is what it is.. :-/

 

[zig9449]

Well - okay. But it's no different with the .plist code. It's either correct and works perfectly or not and doesn't work at all. We need to detach this notion that poorly written code creates lag. Poorly written code, in most cases, doesn't work at all. But I understand your points. And certainly a lot of these kids are downloading 99% pirated stuff. So it's no wonder they have problems.. It is what it is.. :-/

I agree, except for the "it either works perfectly or it doesn't work at all".

A look at a handful of tweaks that needed to be updated to work for iOS 5 is a great example of that. Some tweaks didn't work at all, some worked great, and some kind of worked.....

It is not that black and white....and yes...poorly written code can cause lag. There is proof all over Cydia.lol. I know this for a fact because Filippo Bigarella(the developer of Springtomize 2) told me so.

I had told him that one of the sliders for adjusting the cover flow effect in the dock caused my phone to lag horribly. He emailed saying he updates to code to fix the lag. and he did.

I have no idea where you got this "it either works perfectly or not at all" thing from, and you can ask any developer, I know they would tell you otherwise.

I just thought of an example....the tweak Music Controls Pro...it is not perfect...with task controls enabled in the switcher it makes the app switcher lag when you activate....it lags, but it "works".

The notification center addons....they make your notification center lag when that are active...but regardless...it "works". Not prefectly....but it works. I simply don't enable those 2 things so there is no lag at all.

The idea of code working perfectly or not at all is extremely "asinine". I would easily bet my life that that is simply not true.

That is the most idealistic thing I've ever heard.

If that was true...then developers would NEVER update there working tweaks unless it was to add a new feature....but that is not that the case....devs update there tweaks all the time because they are sometimes flawed.....so that fact alone simply rules out your "it either works perfectly or not at all" completely and entirely.

 

[pianoman]

If that was true...then developers would NEVER update there working tweaks unless it was to add a new feature....but that is not that the case....devs update there tweaks all the time because they are sometimes flawed.....so that fact alone simply rules out your "it either works perfectly or not at all" completely and entirely.

The reason you're confused, Zig, is that you entirely changed the subject in making your argument to me. We were not talking about application code, at all! We were talking about "themes"! Themes are not written with the same application code tweaks and Cydia apps are. They are written with stylesheets and the .plist. Not to try and oversimplify, but basically speaking, Stylesheet code either works or it doesn't work, Zig. That is an undeniable fact. It can't make a theme laggy or not. If there is an complex animation involved or a widget involved in the stylesheet coding/.plist then that particular item can make a theme laggy. But that's not a function of poor code it's a function of what you're asking the code to do.

You tend to make these authoritative statements that can end up confusing people because your information is not quite right. Sometimes we "all" do that on forums. My statement was directed only at theme writing which is an entirely different process than tweak/iApp code writing.

 

[zig9449]

The reason you're confused, Zig, is that you entirely changed the subject in making your argument to me. We were not talking about application code, at all! We were talking about "themes"! Themes are not written with the same application code tweaks and Cydia apps are. They are written with stylesheets and the .plist. Not to try and oversimplify, but basically speaking, Stylesheet code either works or it doesn't work, Zig. That is an undeniable fact. It can't make a theme laggy or not. If there is an complex animation involved or a widget involved in the stylesheet coding/.plist then that particular item can make a theme laggy. But that's not a function of poor code it's a function of what you're asking the code to do.

You tend to make these authoritative statements that can end up confusing people because your information is not quite right. Sometimes we "all" do that on forums. My statement was directed only at theme writing which is an entirely different process than tweak/iApp code writing.

I don't know about you but I have had themes make my phone lag, and themes not lag at all....nuff said.

I installed a theme...my phone was laggy....I removed it, the lag went away. I know this happened to me regardless of any perfectly rational explanation you can give me. I saw this with my own eyes.


I'm not saying themes *will* make your phone lag if you install it, I'm just saying they have the *potential* to. And I think you agreed with me there.

And i don't know anything about style sheet coding so I'm sure your rite about that, and that you know what your talking about. But you did say "Style sheet and the *.plist*. And those plist can be flawed.

My whole point is a theme can *potentially* make you your device lag...If its .plist is flawed....regardless if it has a perfectly working style sheet code.

 

[G-Weezy]

Fellas,

This is a thread to tell other members here what are themes are. If we have disagreements we should discuss on the theme problem thread. We here trying to get the theming world to see what's on our phones. If I was a newbie I would be confused. I know both of you are right in your respective ways. But if I read Zig posts and see everyone else's post I would be really confused.

The system is confusing enough already. We just showing themes here. If it lags switch it to a different one. I think from personal experience when a theme lags the phone I just have too many animations and things going on at the same time. So I disable them.

But anyhow have a good day.

 

[Skull One]

G-Weezy; very well said. And with that, we return to our regularly scheduled thread

 

[zig9449]

Sorry sorry....:/

Continue with sharing your themes

 

[InkedAdrenaline]

G-Weezy; very well said. And with that, we return to our regularly scheduled thread

Haha.

x2

 

[G-Weezy]

No worries. Just wanted to keep the thread going along.