Backstory: I figured out I'm not a huge fan of themes supplied with ManaPlus. Some use color schemes I don't like, some have usability issues, some are boring or do not look nice to my taste. So I decided to make my own custom theme for ManaPlus
- Credits & Thanks:
- 4144 - for his beautiful client and a lot of help, explaining how theming works and even fixing hard-coded color in UI in process (new TABLE_BACKGROUND color) to get rid of stupid grey bar on top of players relations table.
- Hal9000 - for his Jewelry theme. It customizes nearly all aspects of UI and serves as great example of ManaPlus UI customization. My theme uses parts of this theme. And hence also comes under CC-BY-SA license.
- Battle for Wesonth - for some ideas on UI design for fantasy games which could look nice and in-place. While I haven't used any UI elements from BfW, overall UI appearance has been heavily inspired by BfW.
- GIMP authors. Easy to guess why.
- Known issues (I'm aware of these already):
- Shortcuts bar somewhat wide to my taste and wastes screen space. Attempt to fix this has been only partial success.
- Same goes for other elements as well. So I would not recommend this theme for phones and somesuch.
- Colors of MP/HP/... bars aren't perfect.
- Help browserbox colors are bad. Attempts to work it around isn't huge success so far.
But who reads help, anyway? - In Setup window, player relations table header looks ugly due to hardcoded color. It has been fixed by 4144. In new version of ManaPlus it will look okay (tested!).
- Lock button of chat appears below scroll button in chat if there're too many tabs. Yet this issue presents on other themes as well. Not sure if theme could work it around or not.
- Appearance of disabled tabs and disabled checkboxes was not tested, because I don't know how to see these in game. There're none of them in UI.
Get it here: ...and don't forget to post feedback/ideas or make some improvements.
If everything is okay, you will be able to select "golden-delicious" in theme list. After client restart you'll see something like this: Note: I'm not sure if I'm using right forum. But since ManaPlus is default client for TMW and this is theme for ManaPlus, I think it could be posted here as well? Feel free to move it to appropriate forum if it's not a case.