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*3 files for the SMS theme
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::<code>MessagingWidgetsChatConversations.css</code>
 
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* 3 files for the IM theme
 
::<code>MessagingWidgetsSMSConversations.css</code>
::<code>MessagingWidgetsSMSConversations.css</code>
::<code>MessagingWidgetsSMSConversations.js</code>
::<code>MessagingWidgetsSMSConversations.js</code>
::<code>MessagingWidgetsSMSConversations.html</code>
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* 3 files for the IM theme
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::<code>MessagingWidgetsChatConversations.css</code>
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::<code>MessagingWidgetsChatConversations.js</code>
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::<code>MessagingWidgetsChatConversations.html</code>
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* 1 file which contains the image for the user's avatar
* 1 file which contains the image for the user's avatar
::<code>avatar.png</code>
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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
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  root
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cd /usr/share/rtcom-messaging-ui/html
  mv MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.css MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.css.bak
  mv MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.css MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.css.bak
  mv MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.js MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.js.bak
  mv MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.js MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.js.bak
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  root
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cd /usr/share/rtcom-messaging-ui/html
  mv MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.css.bak MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.css
  mv MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.css.bak MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.css
  mv MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.js.bak MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.js
  mv MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.js.bak MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.js
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'''NOTE: Every change you make to the files within the <CODE>html</CODE> folder, you have to type this into X-Terminal:'''
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'''NOTE: Every change you make to the files within the <CODE>html</CODE> folder, to get the changes to show up, you have to either reboot, or type this into X-Terminal:'''
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=== Creating IM Files ===
=== Creating IM Files ===
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cd /usr/share/rtcom-messaging-ui/html/
  cp -f MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.css MessagingWidgetsChatConversation.css
  cp -f MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.css MessagingWidgetsChatConversation.css
  cp -f MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.js MessagingWidgetsChatConversation.js
  cp -f MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.js MessagingWidgetsChatConversation.js
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! width="80" | Portrait Support
! width="80" | Portrait Support
! width="400" | Screenshot
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! width="80" | Download
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! width="100" | Download
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| [http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=488625&postcount=33 Own Avatar] || b666m || No || [[Image:Own_Avatar.jpg]] || [http://www.sendspace.com/file/ztcahp Own_Avatar]
| [http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=488625&postcount=33 Own Avatar] || b666m || No || [[Image:Own_Avatar.jpg]] || [http://www.sendspace.com/file/ztcahp Own_Avatar]
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| [http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=959936&postcount=859 iphone UI] || Niqbal|| || ||[http://www.sendspace.com/file/jxztmn Download]
| [http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=959936&postcount=859 iphone UI] || Niqbal|| || ||[http://www.sendspace.com/file/jxztmn Download]
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| [http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=995119 Default theme with portrait IM and SMS] || Knarf|| Yes || '''Check Thread For Screenshots!''' ||[http://www.sendspace.com/file/v33kik Modded] [http://www.sendspace.com/file/h5dh5r Original look]
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| [http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=1012377&postcount=1024 F2thaK's Themes] || F2thaK || Yup || Multiple themes, see thread for pics ||<< See thread to Download
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*F2thaK
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Latest revision as of 19:55, 5 July 2011

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.

Default Nokia Theme
Custom Theme


Contents

[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:
  1. Find a picture that you want to use as your avatar and make sure its a .png file
  2. Resize that picture (using your favourite Photo Editing Tool) to 64 x 64 pixels
  3. Copy the resized picture onto the root directory of your N900 and rename it to avatar.png
  4. 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

  1. Select a theme that you want to use from the x section at the bottom of this wiki
  2. Download the zip/rar archive and unzip the contents to the html folder that you recently created
  3. 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.

Name Created By Portrait Support Screenshot Download
Own Avatar b666m No Image:Own_Avatar.jpg Own_Avatar
Both Avatars On The Left b666m No N/A Download
Alternative Layout b666m No Image:Alternative_Layout.jpg Download
IM Mod b666m No N/A Download
Different Colours b666m No Image:Different_Colours.jpg None
Group By Sender termi_uc No Image:Group_By_Sender.jpg Download
Bubble Conversation Reflektorfalke No Image:Bubble_Conversation.jpg Download
Increased Text Size Link 1 & Link 2 b666m No N/ADownload
Text & Avatar Bubbles b666m No Image:Text_&_Avatar_Bubble.pngDownload
Simple & Lightweight Grant No Image:Simple_&_Lightweight.jpgDownload
Simple m165 No Image:Simple.jpgDownload
Niqbal's Theme 1 niqbal No Image:Niqbal's_Theme_1.jpgDownload
Niqbal's Theme 2 niqbal No Image:Niqbal's_Theme_2.jpgDownload
Niqbal's Theme 3 niqbal No Image:Niqbal's_Theme_3.jpgDownload
Niqbal's Theme 4 niqbal No Image:Niqbal's_Theme_4.jpgDownload
Niqbal's Theme 5 niqbal No Image:Niqbal's_Theme_5.jpg Download
Niqbal's Theme 6 niqbal No Image:Niqbal's_Theme_6.jpg IM

SMS

Spacing Mod byte_76 No N/A Download
Spacing Mod 2 Kurele No Image:Spacing_Mod_2.png
Minimal Grant No Image:Minimal.jpg Download
Xgrind xgrind No Image:Xgrind.jpg Download
Eitama Minimal eitama No Image:Eitama_Minimal.png Download
Compact edanaher No N/A Download
SR90's Themes SR90 No Multiple Themes In One. Check Thread For Screenshots! Original

7610 Original Blue Orange

N900 Compact TMarki No Image:N900_Compact.jpgDownload
Gsever's Theme gsever No Image:Gsever's_Theme.jpgDownload
Blue and Green Bubbles With Multiple Alignments godofwar424 Yes Multiple Themes In One. Check Thread For Screenshots!Right Alignment

Left Alignment Bubble Standard

MoonLight Style maxximuscool Yes Image:MoonLight_Style.pngDownload
Customisable Bubble Themes Harick Yes Multiple Themes In One. Check Thread For Screenshots! Too many to repack as individual themes
Apple Black & Avatar Harick Yes Download
Apple Green Harick Yes Apple Green

Apple Green Avatar b66m portrait

Theme with Portrait Support Excesv Yes Download
iphone UI Niqbal Download
Default theme with portrait IM and SMS Knarf Yes Check Thread For Screenshots! Modded Original look
F2thaK's Themes F2thaK Yup Multiple themes, see thread for pics << See thread to Download

[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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