Feature request: Themes and theme SDK - Namely, layout Palm Pre

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I'd love for this app to have the ability to be easily themed with 
downloads from Cydia.  I'm sure a number of people in the cydia community 
would jump right into theming Kirikae if the infrastructure were in place.

Personally, I would love to see Kirikae show running applications as cards, 
like the Palm Pre does.  Each running application would be represented by a 
screenshot taken when it was last the current application (hence, it 
wouldn't be live but it would be more useful than an icon or name).  The 
current application could then have a thick outline around it to indicate 
it being as such, other cards/apps wouldn't.

Favorites would be the only button along the bottom of the screen. I imagine it 
looking and working like the Google Android Apps launcher.  Once 
pressed it would look very much like a typical iPhone home screen but 
populated by your favorite apps.

Sliding up/flicking cards off the top of the screen to close running apps 
would be cool but a long press would also work great.  After a long press 
the card could dim and a close/quit button would appear along with a cancel 
button.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by hprid...@gmail.com on 12 Oct 2009 at 2:06

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I am considering adding an option to change the background/text color used in 
the
cells; other than that, there really isn't anything to theme.

As for the Pre-like task switcher, this is a repeat request. As I mentioned 
before,
others are already working on something like this; I will leave it to them.

Original comment by gai...@gmail.com on 12 Oct 2009 at 2:30

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Thanks,

Great to hear that someone is already working on it.  Do you know of a project 
page 
that I con follow to track the development progress?

Original comment by hprid...@gmail.com on 12 Oct 2009 at 2:44

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Multiple parties were working on such extensions; however, I have not heard any
details in a couple of months, and know of no sites with such details. Sorry.

Original comment by gai...@gmail.com on 12 Oct 2009 at 2:51

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Well I had been working on such a Palm-Pre task switcher on iPhone 2.2, and 
after 
gaizin's email I decided to return to it this weekend:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1H2L3c2E8U

Still a lot of to do's, like taking the screenshot (should be easy enough) and 
do a 
slide-up animation to kill app (this looks like it'll be frustrating), but 
right now 
it's sleeping time.

Original comment by netsh...@gmail.com on 19 Oct 2009 at 12:34

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Wow, this is exactly what I was looking for.  You have a great start already; I 
can't wait to see what it 
looks like a few months from now.  I don't program but I'd you need any help 
with graphics I'm your guy!

Original comment by hprid...@gmail.com on 22 Oct 2009 at 3:00

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"I am considering adding an option to change the background/text color used in 
the
cells; other than that, there really isn't anything to theme."

Well, the background, text/font/color and size can be customized? We can take a 
look 
at SBSettings-themeing. It would be cool if we could theme it so it would look 
like 
the Kirikae popup would look like it's floating over the Springboard, and not 
like 
its own whole screen. Much like SBSettings and GriP.

What do you think? A mockup would make it easier to understand what i'm trying 
to 
say, but i do not have Photoshop.

Here's an image of GRiP's messagelog. http://img20.yfrog.com/i/xus.jpg/

Imagine that the backgrounded applications are located on this popup. Looks 
better 
then the current one no?

Original comment by mossefin...@gmail.com on 23 Oct 2009 at 10:32

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@mossefinnshipping:

While I agree that appearance is important, I'm more concerned with 
functionality. If
I spend all of my time working on adding support for themes and such (which 
would
require a bit of work to get *just* right), I wouldn't have time to work on the
functional bits (or on other extensions).

That said, I have thought about a few things (such as using an image as the
background for the Kirikae table). However, that is not something I would be 
able to
work on anytime soon.

Original comment by gai...@gmail.com on 24 Oct 2009 at 5:35

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Now that Palm-Pre mimicking task switchers have become available (multifl0w and 
soon
ProSwitcher), I feel that this is no longer an issue. People that want such
functionality are suggested to try these other extensions.

Closing this issue report.

Original comment by gai...@gmail.com on 18 Dec 2009 at 4:36

• Changed state: WontFix