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Spiral Bound 854x480 (Driod)

A spiral bound notebook theme with some whimsical (but still useful) additions.

Note: What I've uploaded is a beta with no real landscape functionality. Since many themes on the server have no landscape I don't feel too bad about... but I do intend to finish it. Uploaded as SpiralBound v0.

What's a handheld UI without an option to make it look like a pad of paper? SH2 makes it not only possible but functional. Again what started out as a challenge to try some new ideas turned into something that I'm really enjoying using.

My goal this time was to use minimal graphical elements and use as much of SH2's built in features to make an eye-candy-ish theme that still works well for everyday use. I ended up getting a little carried away with some elements so its not really "minimal" but its still a lot less than my other theme, SUI Blue.

Portrait only at the moment. Still scrounging for inspiration on how to make this theme work in landscape.

Let's have a look

The home screen gives you 3 tabs along with a the obligatory spiral binding. I shot the spiral binding of one of my notebooks with my Droid and cooked it up in GIMP.

Here is the yellow page color. You can also choose blue, green, pink and white. (That took a while to figure out.) Its one color per screen and not per tab, but that's good enough for me. You can also turn both horizontal and vertical lines on and off. Want the notecard look or graph paper? Can do. Don't want annoying lines behind your translucent calendar widget? Can do.

Above is the left screen with 3 more tabs. Color controls are filed under "Misc" on this screen but its a red tab on the outside edge like "Utility" where the color controls live on the home screen.

And to the right we have the cardboard cover pocket where the random scraps of paper get stuffed.

Don't forget to flip through the extra pages to see if there are any messages hiding back there.

(Apologies, but I just upgraded the device and have no SMS or recent calls to fill in the blank space.)

If you can't find what you need in all those tabs and pockets head down to your desk drawer.

Now you really do have an "App Drawer." And like most messy drawers where everything gets thrown it can be hard to find what you need. For a bit more of an organized, civilized feel look up at your bookshelf...

That bookshelf is 100% SH2 graphics. The sextant and books on the top shelf are my indulgences. A camera, GIMP and SH2 are a very, very dangerous combination...

The sextant launches Maps and the stack of books to the right launches WikiDroyd. The Manual...

...opens up into a book with a couple pages you can flip through. Complete with a bookmark that closes the book and puts it away. This is where I'll write the obligatory version info when I get a non-beta uploaded.

:D That was really fun to put together.

Other than the tabs, the binding, the corner accents and the drawer face the rest is done with SH2 tools. And the top shelf items, of course. One could reduce some of the image overhead by killing the top shelf items and replacing the drawer front with an SH2 color block.

If you want to have a look at the beta it works pretty well. I just want to polish a few things and figure out landscape.

Thanks for checking it out.