Pidgin Manila-styled WM Theme

Quoting HTCToucher....

So here is the preview.. it uses s2u2, mortbuttons, PocketCM and rltoday

s2u2 INSTRUCTIONS
I will be attaching the photoshop file (.psd) for anyone who would like to use the bottom portion of the s2u2 image above (the embossed look of the "slide 2 unlock") over any image of your liking.
For those who like the whole thing, I will also be attaching the .jpg (it is greyscaled) and the animated .gif (looks like the preview but moves) and the gfx folder for the sms icon and the slider and other buttons.

The .zip (htctoucher pidgin s2u2 sample images and psd) I attached includes many different jpegs and a few animated gifs that you can use. I also included a psd file for those of you who might like to generate your own with my embossed slide 2 unlock.. the sample.jpg in the .zip shows you the kind of look you can get using the psd file.

.....Place the gfx folder in your s2u2 folder on your device and overwrite your files in order to get the slide button and the unread icons and all that
.....Doing this will remove the top and bottom shadings and it will also replace your wallpaper.jpeg, wallpaper.gif, so if you dont want those removed then move only the graphics you want over to your device.


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mortbuttons INSTRUCTIONS
This skin is the .zip called "htctoucher pidgin manila mortbuttons.zip"
It requires that you place the "pidginmanilla.mbz" file (the first mortbuttons screenshot) or the "htctoucher.mbz" file (the second mortbuttons screenshot) and the "bguppershade.png" image in your Mortbuttons-->skins folder.
....Then you must do the following:
Select "pidginmanilla" or "htctoucher" in Mortbuttons Setup-->Display-->Skin dropdown menu
-->Entry Size-->Big
-->Display Style-->User Background-->...-->Portrait ... --> go into your mortbuttons skin folder and select "bguppershade.png"
Select "bguppershade.png" for Landscape

Go back to the main display page
Check "Hide Menu Bar" but Uncheck "Hide Title Bar"
Check "Don't insert paging buttons" but uncheck "Don't insert back button to generated submenus"
Go into "Transitions"
For "To left" and "To right" select Cube transition from drop down.
For "Upwards" and "Downwards" select Slide Over transition.
Zoom in/out select Stretch and Duration 300ms
Go back to the Mortbuttons Setup main page
Go into "Handling" and then Configure Gestures and configure those to your liking
IF YOU WOULD LIKE MORTBUTTONS TO TAKE UP THE WHOLE SCREEN, just select "HIDE TITLE BAR" as well as "HIDE MENU BAR"... then go into Display Style--> "..." --> the "..." next to the color --> define your own color to "51,51,51" (by dragging along the shaded column on the right).. if you do this also make sure there is no image selected
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PocketCM INSTRUCTIONS (for a full preview of my theme go here)
This is the "htctoucher pidgin manila 2.0.zip" file attached.
...Download the .zip file
...Drag the file into your PocketCM folder on your device (DO NOT UNZIP!!)
...Go into options in PocketCM by pressing the filter button and going into options
...Press "Select theme" and choose mine in the drop down menu
...Restart PocketCM

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rltoday INSTRUCTIONS
BOTTOM ROW and APP LAUNCHER
The home button on the bottom left of the screen brings you to the first screen. The star can be mapped to shortcut to whatever application you want.. I have it to mortbuttons (my favorite applications).

The person icon is pocketcm for me, you can link it to whatever you want, and the web is the next icon. The settings is the cog icon (I used the Control.exe I am including in the .zip)

To set this up properly, go into options of rltoday (hold down on the today until options pops up) then go into the "Apps" tab.
.........make sure your first FOUR applications correspond to:
..................................1.png (the star)
..................................2.png (the person)
..................................3.png (the world with the magnifying glass)
..................................5.png (the settings cog)

you do not need to do anything with 4.png

The next 10 applications you choose are what will show up on the app launcher page (the left screen shot in the picture above).


WEATHER
To update weather, press on the weather icon or any of the degrees shown. Also YOU MUST EDIT THE "rl_Vista_Weather.mscr" file in the Pidgin Desktop folder to change the lines:

# your location (see http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/ on finding your location)
location="91011"
# desired units for temp, f or c
units="f"

for your preferred zip code and degree units (Fahrenheit (f) or Celsius (c))


AND YOU MUST EDIT THE skin-tab2.xml located in the mscr folder to change the line:

<Text text="La Canada Flintridge" x="22" y="173" alignment="left" color="RGB(220,220,220)"><Font size="12" weight="" font="Segoe UI" /> <OnClick File="\Program Files\rlToday\Pidgin Desktop\rl_vista_weather.mscr" />
</Text>

located near the bottom to your city name.

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That should be it for instructions.....


Anyone wondering, Why Pidgin??..
...from dictionary.com:
"an auxiliary language that has come into existence through the attempts by the speakers of multiple different languages to communicate and that is primarily a simplified form of one of the languages, with a reduced vocabulary and grammatical structure and considerable variation in pronunciation."

This theme brings together multiple applications, an inspiration of Manila by HTC and my touch (not the phone... but that too) into one theme that should make it seem like all these apps are one in the same!

BTW.. I may be doing other applications (S2P by A_C, but I barely listen to music with my phone) but as of now this is it!
!!big thanks to tene, A_C, mort and rl for their great apps!!
Enjoy!

Also Added the htctoucher manila-inspired skin for PCMKeyboard

Developers Thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=401924

[broSki]

this is hot, im uploading now and checkin this out thanks mike