sephtin.com

Hosting has been acquired, thanks to those that offered, and especially the generous offer by marcfogel for the current space the site is going to be hosted on!
Tested, and it’ll work perfectly, so the site is in the process of moving!


Sorry I haven’t had an update sooner. I had hoped to get the site to the point where testers could take a look before putting something up, but… it’s taking a bit longer than I had anticipated. :(
(If you’d like to test, send me an email with what device/ROM/Version you’d like to test with, and I’ll add you to my testers list!) – sephtin @gmail


Since I had some down-time, the engine that runs the site was completely re-written from shell/bash to Perl. The new code works great… takes a lot longer to generate a theme (due to new added features, not because of the change)… But overall.. super super happy with the update.


The next challenge, is the website.
Those of you that know me, know that I’m NOT a web guy. I’m not a native PHP/JS speaker… So there are a few challanges I’m facing with the site. Here’s what’s up and coming… I’ll try to update this post as a status update when things change:



Updates in the works:
–Remove battery icon completely from status bar
–Some new theme components
–New ROMs (Currently to be tested rubiX Blurry, stock 2.3.340 Deodexed (DX), apeX. (Note, these are subject to how testing goes.. if there’s something that holds them back, the update might go in without them, but they’ll come shortly after if that happens).
–Themers will have full control of text color in status/notification areas. Also progress bar colors can be designated by a themer.
–Remove the Clock from the status bar.
–Throttle hack (Remove VZW throttle)
–Remove Mute/Vibrate and USB Debugging icons


ToDo before the above will be ready:
–Complete move to new site.
–Fix theme issues on new site (theme is still being pulled from orig. site).
–Fix blank page issue while engine processes theme request before download page loads.
–Finish color template files (need to get hex colors for all text colors for every ROM and Theme supported, and update the template file so it can adjust text colors appropriately.
–Release to testers (especially for new ROMs.
–Finish adding the list of theme components that have been submitted that I haven’t gotten to already.
–Migrate new dev site to new prod site (copy/paste)
–Finish testing, re-set logging, release!
…


NOTE: DS has currently been shelved due to code differences between DS and all other themes for DroidX/2. While I think pre-theming helps sell a ROM… the fact that there’s no way to “reset it back to standard”… because the DS pre-theme IS standard, would make most of the themes on the site look like partial themes, unless the theme included all of the same pre-themed applications as the ROM.
(This was addressed for Liberty by including a GB themed liberty option there as well.. so you can pick liberty (GB) for the stock Gingerbread theme as a base to start the theme from.. which works extremely well).




I’d also like to thank everyone that has donated. I have put tons of hours into this project.. and am doing it on the site in my free time for fun. It shows me that the time spent hasn’t been wasted.


Future plans after this update:
–Allow themed applications along with themes.
–Start adding full themes, transitions, animations, etc.
–Once I get this in place, the engine is now much easier to work with, and I can more easily add other devices. (Just need more hours in the day to work on it! :)


Thanks again!
-Sephtin (@gmail)