Conversation Mods

The idea of modifying the way the Conversations App displays our SMS/IM conversations was initially brought up here in | this thread.

Below is a comparison of the default theme and a custom theme.



How To Mod The Conversations Theme
The location of the files that need to be modified in order to change the way our conversations look are located here.

This script has been created in order to make it easier for people to apply the theme they have picked.

The  folder contains 10 files:


 * 3 files for the SMS theme


 * 3 files for the IM theme


 * 3 files for the Single Message Theme


 * 1 file which contains the image for the user's avatar

Backing up & Restore Themes
Just in case you do not want to backup the default theme.

The files for the default theme can be found here

If you have a custom theme that you would like to save then here are some instructions for you.

Backing Up

 * Open X-Terminal and type in the following to backup your current theme

Restoring Your Backup

 * Open X-Terminal and type in the following to restore your backup

Changing Your Own Avatar
You have probably noticed that if you change the avatar for someone in your Contacts, their avatar also changes when they SMS or IM you.

This is great, but Nokia seemed to leave our own avatar non customisable..

Ejasmudar has created a tool to automate this process, it is still early in development and is mainly aimed to help people who aren't comforted typing in multiple lines of code into the terminal. The app can be found here


 * For those of you who love fiddling around with your beloved N900 via X-Terminal, here are some instructions on how to install a custom avatar:


 * 1) Find a picture that you want to use as your avatar and make sure its a   file
 * 2) Resize that picture (using your favourite Photo Editing Tool) to 64 x 64 pixels
 * 3) Copy the resized picture onto the root directory of your N900 and rename it to
 * 4) Now open X-Terminal and type the code shown below

Voila!

NOTE: Every change you make to the files within the  folder, you have to type this into X-Terminal:

Installing A Custom Theme
Ejasmudar has created a tool to automate this process, it is still early in development and is mainly aimed to help people who aren't comforted typing in multiple lines of code into the terminal. The app can be found here

For those of you who love fiddling around with your beloved N900 via X-Terminal, here are some instructions on how to install custom themes:

Firstly, create a folder in the root directory of your N900 called "html"

Now follow the steps below to install a theme


 * 1) Select a theme that you want to use from the x section at the bottom of this wiki
 * 2) Download the zip/rar archive and unzip the contents to the   folder that you recently created
 * 3) Now open X-Terminal and type the following

This will copy all the files across and into the correct directory.

Most themes only contain the files for SMS and do not have the required files for IM.

Here is how to solve that problem. Seeing as the contents of both SMS and IM files are the same, you can simply created duplicates and rename them.

Here is a simple method to do this, just type the following into X-Terminal

NOTE: Every change you make to the files within the  folder, you have to type this into X-Terminal:

Themes
Some of the themes below will support portrait mode correctly, whereas others will still have a horizontal scrollbar.

This script will edit the themes below to allow them to better support portrait viewing.

Credits

 * andrewfblack
 * b666m
 * Reflektorfalke
 * termi_uc
 * qole
 * Grant
 * m165
 * niqbal
 * byte_76
 * Kurele
 * Xgrind
 * eitama
 * edanaher
 * SR90
 * TMarki
 * gsever
 * godofwar424
 * Harick
 * ejasmudar