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.

Default Nokia Theme
Custom Theme


Contents

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 /usr/share/rtcom-messaging-ui/html/.

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

The html folder contains 10 files:

  • 3 files for the SMS theme
MessagingWidgetsChatConversations.css
MessagingWidgetsChatConversations.js
MessagingWidgetsChatConversations.html
  • 3 files for the IM theme
MessagingWidgetsSMSConversations.css
MessagingWidgetsSMSConversations.js
MessagingWidgetsSMSConversations.html
  • 3 files for the Single Message Theme
MessagingWidgetsSingleSMS.css
MessagingWidgetsSingleSMS.js
MessagingWidgetsSingleSMS.html
  • 1 file which contains the image for the user's avatar
avatar.png

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 

root
mv MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.css MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.css.bak
mv MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.js MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.js.bak
mv MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.html MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.html.bak
mv MessagingWidgetsChatConversation.css MessagingWidgetsChatConversation.css.bak
mv MessagingWidgetsChatConversation.js MessagingWidgetsChatConversation.js.bak
mv MessagingWidgetsChatConversation.html MessagingWidgetsChatConversation.html.bak

Restoring Your Backup

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

root
mv MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.css.bak MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.css
mv MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.js.bak MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.js
mv MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.html.bak MessagingWidgetsSMSConversation.html
mv MessagingWidgetsChatConversation.css.bak MessagingWidgetsChatConversation.css
mv MessagingWidgetsChatConversation.js.bak MessagingWidgetsChatConversation.js
mv MessagingWidgetsChatConversation.html.bak MessagingWidgetsChatConversation.html

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

Here is how to customise your avatar via X-Terminal
  1. Find a picture that you want to use as your avatar and make sure its a .png 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 avatar.png
  4. Now open X-Terminal and type the code shown below 
root
cp -f /home/user/MyDocs/avatar.png /usr/share/rtcom-messaging-ui/html/

Voila!

NOTE: Every change you make to the files within the html folder, you have to either:

1. Open A conversation and close it a couple of times
Or
2. Reboot your N900

In order for changes to take effect

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:


NOTE: Every change you make to the files within the html folder, you have to either:

1. Open A conversation, close it and then reopen it a couple of times
Or
2. Reboot your N900

In order for changes to take effect

Downloadable mods

  • To convert your theme to work better in portrait mode, use this script.


  • Own avatar link
  • Both avatars on left link
  • Alternative layout link
  • IM mod link
  • Change colors link
  • Group by sender link
  • Bubble conversation link
  • Increase text size link and link
  • Text bubble? link
  • Simple Lightweight conversation link
  • Simple link
  • Conversation theme 1 link
  • Conversation theme 2 link
  • Conversation Spacing 2 Mod link
  • Minimal 2 link
  • Conversation spacing 2 Mod 2 link
  • Conversation theme 3 link
  • Conversation theme 4 link
  • Conversation theme 5 link
  • Xgrind theme link
  • Kopete Style - Conversation theme 6 link
  • Eitama Minimal link
  • Conversations Compact link
  • SR90 themes (4) link
  • N900 compact link
  • Gsever theme link
  • Blue and Green Bubble Theme with different alignment options link

Credits

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