DIY your own Theme for your lovely X3

[TheGiantHogweed]

  Here it is:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vn7bo60cf73ue2o/x3v3.3.7z?dl=0

 
Also included a new music operation menu:

 
I haven't had the time to fully test it on an actual x3, so there might be some bugs,colour issues, etc. I also started this pack off of @sandman1990 theme, and there may be some of his icons left over - I apologize if there is. Haven't fully fleshed out a standardized colour theme yet, so the vol, and some buttons are still kind of a mish-mash. Should be fixed in time. I'm also thinking about prettying up the music op. menu and making it a full theme .
 
Enjoy.

Your green theme is funny

. I hardly have any album art so I just have your image the whole time! The theme is very bright though which is what I like. The white theme is also good but there is a small problem. The text for the song time is in white on a very pale grey background. Very hard to read. I like this theme the most though for browsing through the files.

 

[Tail]

  Here it is:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vn7bo60cf73ue2o/x3v3.3.7z?dl=0

 
Also included a new music operation menu:

 
I haven't had the time to fully test it on an actual x3, so there might be some bugs,colour issues, etc. I also started this pack off of @sandman1990 theme, and there may be some of his icons left over - I apologize if there is. Haven't fully fleshed out a standardized colour theme yet, so the vol, and some buttons are still kind of a mish-mash. Should be fixed in time. I'm also thinking about prettying up the music op. menu and making it a full theme .
 
Enjoy.

Pip-boy theme looks great... Thanks! Now I wanna start playing Fallout again...

 

[Mmet]

now there are too many great and marvelous looking themes from different (artists) here .. making me so confused about which one to install

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                                                               THANK YOU ALL GUYS

 

[Mr Trev]

 
Your green theme is funny

. I hardly have any album art so I just have your image the whole time! The theme is very bright though which is what I like. The white theme is also good but there is a small problem. The text for the song time is in white on a very pale grey background. Very hard to read. I like this theme the most though for browsing through the files.

re: theme 3....I forgot that those numbers were always white. Just had a standard transparency originally, but with black text of the song title was impossible to read. I'll probably go back to the transparent bkg, and switch the song text to white. Should be more visible that way

 

[TheGiantHogweed]

The white theme also has issues in the EQ menu. The text at the bottom is all in white again so you can hardly tell if it is off or on any of the other functions. Also, when a song is playing and it has no album art and you want to change the volume, the text there is in black. As before the screen gets darker when you adjust the volume which makes the black text hard to see.
Theme 2 (the grey one) has a similar issue. When you hover over something in the menu, is is a little too dark and makes the black text quite hard to read. When the track is playing and you adjust the volume, it is the same as the white theme problem, you can hardly see the volume number as it is black on a dark grey background. It isn't a huge problem as you can always see the volume in the top corner anyway.
The one other thing I noticed was that the EQ menu of the blue theme is the same as theme 4. Again, that isn't a problem.
All of the other themes are great. Especially the green one. Everything is so clear on that.
 
All of these small problems may just be because the X3's screen isn't great. If you say you haven't fully tested it on the X3 yet then is may be easy to read everything on other screens.
 

Sorry that I have been finding little niggles with your Firmware. Overall, I think it is really good and the will be the best so far if some of these minor problems get sorted.
 
Because I hardly have any album art, I have never really seen what the quality of the X3's screen is like. Your image of your green theme looks very clear and the screen on the X3 is actually quite reasonable, just not very bright. I think the X5 will probably have a better screen as it is an IPS display.

 

[Mr Trev]

I updated the readability issues for the bottom of the playing screen (same link as above)....As for eq....to be honest I didn't spend anytime on those this time around. They're basically the same from my past fw, which I also didn't spend much time on because the eq didn't work

. The black text is kinda tricky using transparencies, probably why there aren't too many light themes around. I'll keep working at it, and posting updates. The biggest reason I u/l'd it now is so that you guys can find all the mistakes for me

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Cheers.
 
As of 20:00 MST posted some more updates regarding readability/eq/probably a few things I've forgotten about. There will most likely still be some issues in theme 3 due to the fact that the font colour defaults to white. I'll try to find a better solution..........

 

[sandman1990]

  Here it is:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vn7bo60cf73ue2o/x3v3.3.7z?dl=0

 
Also included a new music operation menu:

 
I haven't had the time to fully test it on an actual x3, so there might be some bugs,colour issues, etc. I also started this pack off of @sandman1990 theme, and there may be some of his icons left over - I apologize if there is. Haven't fully fleshed out a standardized colour theme yet, so the vol, and some buttons are still kind of a mish-mash. Should be fixed in time. I'm also thinking about prettying up the music op. menu and making it a full theme .
 
Enjoy.

Totally dig the Pip Boy theme.
Love the new Quick Menu.

 

[Tail]

Originally Posted by Mr Trev /img/forum/go_quote.gif
 
I'll keep working at it, and posting updates. The biggest reason I u/l'd it now is so that you guys can find all the mistakes for me

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Few things in case you wanna play with Pip-boy theme more:
 
In main menu Playing,Favorites and System Settings icons seems to be few pixels to the right (or Database, Browse Files and Play Settings to the left, same thing) in case you didn't want it that way (to align it to the left?).
 
In Play Settings menu "Default volume" icon is white while all the others are green.
 
Also Now Playing screen, when playing song, has blue line that shows how much of the song time elapsed (just in case you wanted it green as all the other elements in the UI).
 
When I press Favorites from the main menu while not having any library scanned nor favorites the warning that comes up "Playback failed! No music found!" is aligned all the way to the right, while it was on the center on all other firmwares (just in case you didn't want that either).
 
All of these are not so important but in case you want to perfect it... This is by far best looking theme in my opinion, might even delete ID tags so I see pipboy instead of album art!  

 

[Mr Trev]

Made a few more updates:
 
1: addressed the issues in the previous post concerning pipboy (theme 5)
2: changed some bkgs to blue in theme 3 for the sake of readability - that darn white font again. (info & usb, specifically)
3: I felt theme 6 looked too vertically stretched compared to what I had on my laptop, so I squished it down - looks much better to me.
4: cleaned out a bunch of unnecessary left-over image files
 
I think I got the biggest probs tackled for now, you can grab the updated version from the original link.
 
Cheers

 

[TheGiantHogweed]

It may just be me that prefers this but I like that battery indicator to have 5 bars on it like it does in the official 3.3 FW. It somehow seems easier to work out how full it is without having to look closely. When it charges on theme 3 when the X3 is off, the image of the battery then seems to have 5 bars. Maybe half the themes or something like that could have the 5 bars in the battery indicator.
The white theme is definitely an improvement now it has the different colour font and backgrounds. The EQ menu is now easy to read as well as the track time and the volume number that pops up when you turn it up and down.
This isn't a problem at all. I just like it. Maybe you could sometime add it to just the white theme.

 

[Wokei]

+ agrred with the 5 bar battery indicator ....getting old and any assistance from display is much appreciated ..hahaa

 

[Mr Trev]

If you're referring to the top bar battery icon, then it should be fairly easy to change that across the board, probably could get that done tonight (it's b-stard cold here, and I'll take any excuse not to go outside)

 

[Wokei]

If you're referring to the top bar battery icon, then it should be fairly easy to change that across the board, probably could get that done tonight (it's b-stard cold here, and I'll take any excuse not to go outside)

Cheers man .......you da BEST ....JamesFiiO....when the new FIIO X3II.....he should get a 50% discount for his effort as he is one of the early modders for X3 ...cheers

 

[Mr Trev]

I'd totally take a 50% discount

 
Updated again (same link)....this time switched to segment battery icon (little bigger too) - does look better, thanks for the suggestion - and some other minor topbar tweaks.
 
btw, if you haven't checked out the x5 mod thread, you should. They're doing some crazy, wicked stuff over there.

 

[Wokei]

I'd totally take a 50% discount

Updated again (same link)....this time switched to segment battery icon (little bigger too) - does look better, thanks for the suggestion - and some other minor topbar tweaks.

btw, if you haven't checked out the x5 mod thread, you should. They're doing some crazy, wicked stuff over there.

Yup ..yup ....trying to score me one used X5 .......now that would be wicked ..haha