Sony Ericsson K750i ThemesCreating themes
New themes can be created with the aid of the Smart Theme Creator, an online application by Sony Ericsson. But the .thm files which deliver the skins to your phone are nothing magic - In fact, their format is well known to UNIX users:
stefan@nano:~$ file Theme.thm Theme.thm: tar archive
And in fact, those file are nothing more than plain old uncompressed tar archives. Existing themes can be extracted with tar xvf Theme.thm and further explored. Be careful where you extract those archives, they contain all files in the root directory.
The theme consists of two components:
- Several image files, either PNG, JPEG or GIF files, other formats may work as well
- The XML definition file Theme.xml, which assigns the images to their roles
I created a skeleton theme - which is not beautiful in any way - to illustrate the different items. By extracting the files und taking a look at the images with an image gallery like gthumb, you can easily identify the different theme sections on your phone.
Exploring the XML format
Download themes
World Organization of the Scout Movement
This theme is aranged around the logo of the world scout movement.
Enemy Territory
This theme is based on the free multiplayer game "Enemy Territory".
You may want to use the appropiate sounds with it, try one of those:
Dalek
This theme features one of britains most famous adversaries, the Dalek. The pictures are taken from the BBC Doctor Who homepage, which offers them as desktop backgrounds. I guess the use as a wallpaper for a phone qualifies as this :-)
You may want to use the appropiate sounds with it:
The Doctor Who main theme is also well suited as a ringtone, but it's not available on the official homepage: You may want to look at different places for it :-)
Cybermen
As another theme related to Doctor Who, this theme features the cybermen.
You may want to use the appropiate sounds with it:
Skeleton
This is nothing fancy, just a theme with high contrast between the different items. It is intended to be used for the creation of other themes, since each picture item can be easily identified on the phone and the computer.
