Spb Software House Introduces Spb UniThemes

[Darius Wey]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/unithemes/?en' target='_blank'>http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/unithemes/?en</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Spb Software House, a leading Pocket PC software developer, introduces a new concept: Spb UniThemes. Every UniTheme is a complete set of skins for all skinnable standard as well as Spb's own Pocket PC applications, all designed in one style. Pocket PC users can now have a consistent look and feel across all of their most used applications - from Windows Media Player to Spb Time and Spb Finance. Each UniTheme includes skins for all of the standard skinnable Pocket PC applications (the Today screen, Windows Media Player, Dialer, and Calculator) as well as skins for all of Spb's skinnable applications (Spb Pocket Plus, Spb Time, Spb Weather, Spb GPRS Monitor, Spb Finance, and Spb Full Screen Keyboard)."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/wey-20050929-UniThemes.jpg" /><br /><br />Spb Software House has just released the first batch of its "UniThemes" (skin packs) with more to come in the near future. Each UniTheme gives your Pocket PC a new look - from the Today screen, Calculator, Phone Dialler and Windows Media Player Mobile, right down to any Spb application that can be skinned. Each UniTheme supports QVGA and VGA and is a free download.

[wocket]

What nice people :D

I've bought a few of their apps and love every one of them and this just makes everything look that much better.

Thanks!

[spinedoc]

Are these compatible with WM5? I would be nice if they listed compatiblity.

[Darius Wey]

Are these compatible with WM5? I would be nice if they listed compatiblity.

If I recall correctly, they are compatible.

[dhpss]

WMP10 Skins don't support Album art?

[Darius Wey]

WMP10 Skins don't support Album art?

They do, but it is up to the creator of the skin to add support in.

If you're feeling adventurous, open up the skin folder and you'll see a series of graphic files and a SKN file. Open up the SKN file with a text editor, and if you see a header called [ AlbumArt ], then the skin supports the display of Album Art. If it's missing, then it won't display it.

Now in this case, I can't recall if Spb's UniThemes support Album Art. If it doesn't display, then it's probably safe to assume that it doesn't support it.

[ironguy]

Pocket PC users can now have a consistent look and feel across all of their most used applications...

They forgot to add, ..."as long as SPB programs are your most used applications."

All in all it's a nice thing for a company to do. I wonder if there will be any conflicts with other programs that skin, like WisBarAdv2. Guess I'll find out shortly!

[Jason Lee]

Ohhh.... WM2003 SE phones cannot be skinned only up to wm2003. :(
I assume it will probably work until you rotate the screen... but i don't want to chance it.. :(
My calulator can't be skinned either.. :(

[Jason Lee]

Has anyone tried to skin the wm2003se phone dialer? or the all white calculator with the flat buttons?
I would still skin my dialer even if it went back to default in landscape.
:?:

[vassiliphilippov]

Has anyone tried to skin the wm2003se phone dialer? or the all white calculator with the flat buttons?


WM2003SE dialer can be skinned by skins from WM2003 dialer. It just will not work with landscape/square. At least it works on my Qtek 2020i.

But we are going to support all versions of WM dialer including WM5 in all unithemes soon.

Vassili Philippov
Spb Software House

[Jason Lee]

Has anyone tried to skin the wm2003se phone dialer? or the all white calculator with the flat buttons?


WM2003SE dialer can be skinned by skins from WM2003 dialer. It just will not work with landscape/square. At least it works on my Qtek 2020i.

But we are going to support all versions of WM dialer including WM5 in all unithemes soon.

Vassili Philippov
Spb Software House

cool. that's what i thought ti would do but i wasn't sure. didn't want to make my phone unuseable. :)

thanks.

[djr13]

The Spb website shows screenshots for VGA skins for Time 1.1 but none of the download packages has produced this on my hx4700. Al of the installed time skins have the pixellated appearance of a doubled qvga skin.

Am I doing something wrong or is there an explanation?

Thanks in advance

[vassiliphilippov]

The Spb website shows screenshots for VGA skins for Time 1.1 but none of the download packages has produced this on my hx4700. Al of the installed time skins have the pixellated appearance of a doubled qvga skin.

Am I doing something wrong or is there an explanation?

Current version of Spb Time does not support true VGA skins. But the next version that will be released very soon does support.

We have added VGA skin for Spb Time in advance to the unithemes to have everything ready to the moment when Spb Time with VGA skin support is released.

Vassili Philippov
Spb Software House