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Welcome back in theme review series. Long time no see, but more themes coming and more to review, so let’s see what can we have in Carbon theme for Nokia N900.
Carbon theme, as the name says, makes user interface look line modern machines built with carbon fiber. Dark grey motif looks pretty clean with bright, contrasting font colors. Carbon fiber structure appears as background in most important applications like App manager or Media Player and in homescreen, making it clean and tidy. Buttons mostly look smaller than in most themes, their background makes them look like leveled with rest of interface with groove around. Text colors are nicely cooperating with dark background. White letters for main elements and blue for minor are visible and easily readable.
In my opinion such set of colors and widget looks doesn’t tire eyes, it’s easy to work with such theme even for long time. Carbon theme makes good duo with black-grey-blue-white coloured wallpapers, like Bleach wallpaper I’ve made some time ago. Try it yourself and if you’re looking for theme for your own wallpaper see other reviewed themes and feel free to ask, I’ll try to find of maybe even make such theme.
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MJ

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New things are coming to theming world. But first things first, if you have problem with changing themes (no theme list window), just read forward.
Recently, after PR1.2 update came to my N900 I was having quite annoying problem with themes. When I tried to change theme there wasn’t any popup, window or anything. I’ve found that themes were moved to other place to save place for installing applications, but everything seemed fine. After that I’ve tried to change the theme by changing symbolic links directly (current theme is pointed with link in device configuration) and it worked. A little bit of googling and finally I’ve found solution. Some time ago I was writing about Widgets Gallery and problem was located in this packages (package set for libdui library). If you have it installed and theme picker doesn’t pop up just uninstall it, it helped me, now works like a charm.
And what’s new in theming… well I was a bit surprised but positively. now there is possibility to create themes for instant messaging, unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work for my SMS conversations, but for all of IMs it changes appearance nicely. Initial theme is packed in Shaded chat theme (currently available in extras-devel and extras-testing) in application manager, so feel free to download and test it and if you want maybe you can make your own theme!
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For more info on devel and testing catalogues visit Application catalogues tutorial
Please visit Nokia N900 Forum

Shaded chat theme

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Some time ago I’ve begun a kind of series of theme reviews for N900. You may have already noticed some articles related with this subject, showing author’s favourite Maemo 5 themes in general.
In previous posts you can find mostly free N900 themes available in application catalogues. Sam posted his own Top Nokia N900 themes while I was writing about Matrix theme with my own wallpaper to make UI in general more personal. Recently I’ve decided to use a little more effort to give you more complete view on what you can get from one exact theme before downloading and installing.
If you’re still not satisfied with what you can get and you’ve searched all the web, you can always try to make your own theme. There is already tool for this, Theme Maker written in Java so it runs on various operating systems, including Linux, Windows and MacOS. Still I find this software a bit unstable so I’ll rely on themes ready to download from catalogues and Ovi store.
Summarizing, I will continue describing themes in more detail, just as I’ve done with Contour Nerv and Buff, all of this reviews you can find here, in Nokia N900 themes category. If you’re looking for something specific let me know what color palette, what kind of styling you’re interested in, I’ll try to find such theme and write in-depth review.
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For more info on devel and testing catalogues visit Application catalogues tutorial

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I have noticed an active increment of themes for the Maemo (especially for the N900) platform. The author Ricky Tournee for example released six themes at once, called the livilSteel theme series. They are all consistent in design and layout, which makes them distinctively belonging together and reflecting the designers “handwriting”.
The first one is the basic theme, livilSteel:

As second livilSteel Army Theme:

The third one is livilSteel Black Winter Day Theme:

Forth theme is livilSteel OSX Theme which is my favorite one:

As fifth theme livilSteel Grunge Theme:

And the last one livilSteel High Contrast Theme:

All of them are downloadable in the Maemo Download section for free! Thank you Ricky Tournee!
Another nice theme, which I place as my second favorite is the Array Theme for Fremantle by Johannes Siipola. Kiitos!

And my last one, on my personal third place I rank the Reflect Theme also by Johannes Siipola.

With time to time it will be more and more interesting to personalize the own device. We did not have a wide range of themes yet, but with this speed of theme releases, I think we will be able to choose soon our individual one.
Thank you Theme-Developers, I really appreciate your work, and I think the most of us do, am I right, or am I right?
So long,
- sam | visit our Nokia N900 forum -

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As we promised before here a this Symbian Nokia N900 theme, we are the first on the web giving you this preview of the Color City theme for Maemo 5/Nokia N900 phones. This theme is under development with MMMOOO folks and will be released very very soon(price over 4 euros). We were able to test this theme and give you some screenshots.

The theme name will make you remember a city with tall buildings, but it can also makes you remember tetris because you have very little squares falling down with different colours. You can be pretty sure this won’t be just a theme with a wallpaper for your Nokia N900, it will be something personalized. Well, the best thing you have to do is to subscribe our RSS Feed and receive the latest news on Maemo 5. We will update you very soon on this Color City theme! Check the gallery below: