Mer/Documentation/Creating new themes

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First you'll need a working Mer installation. You can use VMDK (virtual machine) or chroot for example.

Get sources and Build Depends

After installation, run 

sudo apt-get update

To update package lists. 

sudo apt-get build-dep hildon-theme-liberty-mer

To get all build-depends of theme. 

sudo apt-get source hildon-theme-liberty-mer

To get sources for liberty-mer theme.

Crating a new theme

First you need a software to edit vector graphics with. Inkscape is recommended.

Then, you can edit the big .svg template under the template/ in source directory.

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