“ Originally Posted by crazaytalent 
”
Wow thats awesome to hear... but i have to wonder (and please feel free to school me, this is why I ask) if your not over thinking it, in the since that win mo 6.5 and f3d-2 are 2 standalone UI's although tf3d_2 maybe be running on top of 6.5, wouldnt designing complete all inclusive themes, be the same or equivelant as skinnin say m2d and then also skinning the old 6.1/6.0 today screen (the basic screen you coul add plugins too) or skinning m2d and htc home together on older generation devices like the touch and mogul? I ask that to wonder if itd just be easier to do a 6.5 theme seperate (i.e if you ported alienxtream) for some one to use, and if they really wanted to they could install he tf3d-2 version, but ultimatly it may save you some headache as the two UI's dont run together anyways? (hope Im making sense here...lol?)
I know the 2 don't always run as one but there are parts that overlap and for me those parts are enough to drive me nuts. lol also truely [usen the older tf2d as a reference ] it always drove me crazy that I could not skin the start menu icons and stuff to match but from what I understand in 6.5 all those things that were locked away in .dll files are no longer that way. It has bothered me that there are still parts of TF3D-2 that I have not found how to skin. In the AlienXtream skin there are still area's that were not complete but they were all I could find [so far] lol
The other thing that is very hard to get together is that its come down to picking my favorite rom to build from. As there are so dam many different things that a cooker can build into his or her roms that are different .. what works for one fails on another. say they cooked in the topaz icons on one and the stock Pro icons in another. Its hard to make something that works for both. I think that for now the next big thing will be 6.5 and TF3D-2 running as one on a platform. So that is were I plan to make the big steps. Yes in some ways its overthinking for sure.. but thats just me..lol on the upside someone can run either both or just one if I build it that way, and then everything will match. I'm quite sure we are only a few weeks away from having the first complete smooth running platforms that have both 6.5 and TF3D-2.
And yes I agree TF3D-2 is really a amazing piece of work [ the code is a mess but the entire idea was amazing]. And personally I love it. Once everything gets sorted to work right nothing else will be as complete as as usefull. Sure you could probably load 6 or 10 different pieces of software that will do all the same functions that TF3D-2 can do but they would never all match [skinnned] without some nightmare of a slaptogether. Its easy to see why they used such a simple back and grey concept theme to work from. Can you imagine what it would cost HTC to hire graphic designers to make a theme like TF7X for everything... knowing the hours I put into this stuff, and knowing that every graphics designer has thier own style, it would be almost impossible without only one person designing it. The software would have been obsolete before they completed it. And it would have been tons of cash for the development.
On the upside I look forward to being the only person that going to figure this entire thing out [mostly because others are smart enough to run when they see how much there is to do]. I have always held the motto that I can skin anything lets see if this is true shall we. lol