Conversation Mods
The idea of modifying the way the Conversations App displays our SMS/IM conversations was initially brought up here in this thread.
Below is a comparison of the default theme and a custom theme.
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[edit] How To Mod The Conversations Theme
Ejasmudar has created a tool to automate some of the following processes, it is still early in development and is mainly aimed to help people who aren't comforted typing in multiple lines of code into the terminal. The app can be found here. For those of you who love fiddling around with your beloved N900 via X-Terminal, read on.
The location of the files that need to be modified in order to change the way our conversations look are located here /usr/share/rtcom-messaging-ui/html/
.
This script has been created in order to make it easier for people to apply the theme they have picked.
The html
folder contains 10 files:
- 3 files for the SMS theme
MessagingWidgetsSMSConversations.css
MessagingWidgetsSMSConversations.js
MessagingWidgetsSMSConversations.html
- 3 files for the IM theme
MessagingWidgetsChatConversations.css
MessagingWidgetsChatConversations.js
MessagingWidgetsChatConversations.html
- 3 files for the Single Message Theme
MessagingWidgetsSingleSMS.css
MessagingWidgetsSingleSMS.js
MessagingWidgetsSingleSMS.html
- 1 file which contains the image for the user's avatar
avatar.png
Here is a video tutorial with slightly modified steps as with above. Instead of using X Terminal, FileBox was used to copy/replace the files with modified themes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU8jiAG4H70
[edit] Backing up & Restore Themes
Just in case you do not want to backup the default theme.
The files for the default theme can be found here
If you have a custom theme that you would like to save then here are some instructions for you.
[edit] Backing Up
- Open X-Terminal and type in the following to backup your current theme
root cd /usr/share/rtcom-messaging-ui/html mv MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.css MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.css.bak mv MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.js MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.js.bak mv MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.html MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.html.bak mv MessagingWidgetsChatConversation.css MessagingWidgetsChatConversation.css.bak mv MessagingWidgetsChatConversation.js MessagingWidgetsChatConversation.js.bak mv MessagingWidgetsChatConversation.html MessagingWidgetsChatConversation.html.bak
[edit] Restoring Your Backup
- Open X-Terminal and type in the following to restore your backup
root cd /usr/share/rtcom-messaging-ui/html mv MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.css.bak MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.css mv MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.js.bak MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.js mv MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.html.bak MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.html mv MessagingWidgetsChatConversation.css.bak MessagingWidgetsChatConversation.css mv MessagingWidgetsChatConversation.js.bak MessagingWidgetsChatConversation.js mv MessagingWidgetsChatConversation.html.bak MessagingWidgetsChatConversation.html
[edit] Changing Your Own Avatar
You have probably noticed that if you change the avatar for someone in your Contacts, their avatar also changes when they SMS or IM you.
This is great, but Nokia seemed to leave our own avatar non customisable..
NOTE: Only certain themes will show your avatar. Please check the screenshots below. If an avatar on 'your' side of the conversation isn't shown, then it is very likely the theme does not allow you to see your own avatar
- For those of you who love fiddling around with your beloved N900 via X-Terminal, here are some instructions on how to install a custom avatar:
- Find a picture that you want to use as your avatar and make sure its a
.png
file - Resize that picture (using your favourite Photo Editing Tool) to 64 x 64 pixels
- Copy the resized picture onto the root directory of your N900 and rename it to
avatar.png
- Now open X-Terminal and type the code shown below
root
cp -f /home/user/MyDocs/avatar.png /usr/share/rtcom-messaging-ui/html/
Voila!
NOTE: Every change you make to the files within the html
folder, to get the changes to show up, you have to either reboot, or type this into X-Terminal:
root
killall rtcom-messaging-ui
[edit] Installing A Custom Theme
Ejasmudar has created a tool to automate this process, it is still early in development and is mainly aimed to help people who aren't comforted typing in multiple lines of code into the terminal. The app can be found here
For those of you who love fiddling around with your beloved N900 via X-Terminal, here are some instructions on how to install custom themes:
Firstly, create a folder in the root directory of your N900 called "html"
root
mkdir /home/user/MyDocs/html
Now follow the steps below to install a theme
- Select a theme that you want to use from the x section at the bottom of this wiki
- Download the zip/rar archive and unzip the contents to the
html
folder that you recently created - Now open X-Terminal and type the following
root
cp -f /home/user/MyDocs/html/* /usr/share/rtcom-messaging-ui/html/
This will copy all the files across and into the correct directory.
[edit] Creating IM Files
Most themes only contain the files for SMS and do not have the required files for IM.
Here is how to solve that problem. Seeing as the contents of both SMS and IM files are the same, you can simply created duplicates and rename them.
Here is a simple method to do this, just type the following into X-Terminal
root
cd /usr/share/rtcom-messaging-ui/html/
cp -f MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.css MessagingWidgetsChatConversation.css
cp -f MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.js MessagingWidgetsChatConversation.js
cp -f MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.html MessagingWidgetsChatConversation.html
NOTE: Every change you make to the files within the html
folder, you have to type this into X-Terminal:
root
killall rtcom-messaging-ui
[edit] Themes
Some of the themes below will support portrait mode correctly, whereas others will still have a horizontal scrollbar.
This script will edit the themes below to allow them to better support portrait viewing.
Note: The themes have been repacked to make it easy to install via Conversation Modder. In case original theme file is required, please use the link in the first column.
[edit] Credits
- andrewfblack
- b666m
- Reflektorfalke
- termi_uc
- qole
- Grant
- m165
- niqbal
- byte_76
- Kurele
- Xgrind
- eitama
- edanaher
- SR90
- TMarki
- gsever
- godofwar424
- Harick
- ejasmudar
- Knarf
- F2thaK
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