Theme: Flatline (WIP)

[ClassicGMR]

I always like to see clean, sleek, minimalist themes. Sometimes you just want to get where you're going without all the flash and this definitely fits the bill. This is something I would definitely use.

[paffley]

Nice work @EctoOne ! lemme know when its available and ill test it on my pi no problem.

[EctoOne]

I uploaded a test version (download link is in the first post).

• Changed the colors to grey variants and found some free fonts that I liked (See second image in the first post)

[mattrixk]

@ectoone: I like the idea of making a simple clean theme.

Re: fonts, you could have a look at Google Fonts (fonts.google.com). There are a few hundred fonts to choose from, and you're allowed to use them for pretty much anything.

[EctoOne]

@mattrixk thanks for the tip. I've been on that site before but it wasn't that obvious to me how to download fonts. I thought they were for supposed to be used embedded in websites. Figured it out though now.

[mattrixk]

@ectoone No worries. Glad you worked it out. I mostly used Roboto on my themes, but I used some fancier ones too (as you can see in my Core theme https://github.com/mattrixk/es-theme-core. I might actually finish it one day).

[EctoOne]

@mattrixk Huh, it's 9 months old and I can't remember if I have seen that before. Looks nice.

Anyways, I changed the fonts to go more with the basic line theme. Although I'm still not happy with the secondary font. But all fonts I tested have been either too wide to fit in the metadata section or too tiny to read. And I changed the colors a little bit, because some where to dark to read from a distance.
I also replaced the preview images in the first post.

[EctoOne]

Update:

• It now has a complete text based carousel (Thanks again to @jdrassa for implementing that feature).
• changed the Carousel font
• changed the metadata font to the same as metadata label
• changed description font
• changed grid view to have the same look as the carousel (four games)

[simpleethat]

I think this might work for my R2D2 build I'm slowly working on. I'm going to have to grab it

[EctoOne]

@simpleethat if you change the colors it might fit. I just did a quick test, and you might need to change some font sizes.

[simpleethat]

@ectoone Oh man, once I get it finished I think that might be perfect

[simpleethat]

@ectoone Okay... I'm a little embarassed by this but how do I go about downloading it? Also what values did you get use for the colors?

[EctoOne]

@simpleethat When you click the link, there is a green button on the right side that says 'Clone or Download'. Hit that and a small window appears under it with the option 'Download ZIP'.

And I don't quite understand your question about the color values. Do you want to know what values I used for the white/blue variant or where to input them or what?

These are the values for the white/blue variant and they have to be put at the top of the theme.xml file in the ZIP. There should be a section for it.

 <backgroundColor>E0E6F2</backgroundColor>
 <mainColor>0F2088</mainColor>
 <highlightColor>CC3433</highlightColor>
 <secondaryColor>888888</secondaryColor>

[simpleethat]

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[simpleethat]

@ectoone Thanks, you assumed correctly about the blue/white values. I think this is going to be perfect for my R2D2 build