This is my first attempt at making a theme. Just wanted to get down the general idea... I kind of missed the old theme from my e62 so I took that into consideration when I made this.

I didn't change many icons this time, and the ones I did I stole from a few icon sets. Anything I release passed today will be hand drawn.

Anyway, I also don't know how to do OTA install themes, and I don't own an 8830 so I can only assume since I exported a version to 4.2.2 it will work.

Hope you semi enjoy --





Download for 8800 and 8830
OTA for:
8300 | 8800 | 8830

Looks good.

Added OTA links for 8300, 8800, 8830

that's pleasant.

what's the typeface?

Very nice. I look forward to learning.

It's a combination of Lucida Sans Unicode, Century Gothic (for numbers) and Candara

I noticed that 2 items shows up on the list on the home screen under Calendar, however, they are not the next 2 items, the first is correct, the second is days away when on my calendar there are appointments in between and have confirmed that they are on my BB calendar that syncs w/my Outlook. I did the Calendar patch as well, any ideas? Nice theme nevertheless, looks great with lots of my wallpapers.

Hey! I love this theme the most out of the two you posted recently (Leopard). I was wondering though, can you make this one into a Zen them as well? Im not too big on the Calendar the main screen becomes a waste for me...


Also I was wondering is it possible to change all the texts to the font you have set in the menus? I have tried to change the font to System, however it keeps reverting back to BBMilliBank Tall, which I hate =/

I could turn this into Zen. I will do that next and update it with some new icons... a few other fixes etc. People have liked the leopard one more so I have focused more time on it. If you haven't noticed from installing this yet CBT stands for "Crappy Black Theme" I didn't have big plans for this one but I'll certinaly give it some work.

Eventually I'm going to stop working on both these themes and move on to another though. I had a few other ideas I wanted to create..


as for the fonts.... I can't help you.. because I can't even help myself with them.

Crappy Black Theme?!


Man, I guess I just have bad taste then


I really like the simplicity of it, I guess thats why I like it.


One odd thing I found is that in your Leopard theme, you can actually change the font to System so that the main menu still keeps your original theme font while typing an email is the System font. I guess the CBT theme is just messed up

Im really looking forward to your upcoming themes. So far the themes I been able to find really didnt change much and not much of a theme to it. Most of them in my opinion is just reorganizing the icons up top. I really like how yours actually has something flowing with it.

If I can suggest something, it would be nice if the folders were different so I can easily tell between Tools and Applications.


EDIT: Oh and is it possible that I can add more of my applications into the Applications folder?

As of right now it's not possible for me to change the folders icons per folder. That would be a nice benefit. I do however like the folders... as I may have mentioned before.. I make themes for myself first, other people second . I like clearing off the main area there with stuff that can be accessed from the main menu or from the application switcher quickly.

Like I said about CBT... it's going to get reworked on.. maybe there's something I have to do to fix it.. I'm not sure. And it's not possible to put more applications into your applications folder.... standard blackberry organizational weirdness.

I like this theme as well and use it for my phone. I am a new BB convert, over from PocketPC, and have had a difficult time finding good themes that are the "Today" style.

I guess I am the opposite of a lot of BB folks as I like to have my calendar displayed on the home screen. Is the 2 line display a hard limit of the BB or is this a setting that is defined when creating a theme? Also, is there a way to be able to add additional items to the home screen of theme or can that only be done by the theme creator? In particular I was wanting to add an SMS messages section to the home screen under the calendar section.

Thanks again for a great theme!

I'd like to say that this is the 1st theme other then the standard Telstra ones I've downloaded and love it, thanks

I agree with the above gentleman. I would love to see the messages and calendar expanded to see more than 2 items.

Also, the font changing thing is a little annoying as I can't stand the font there

I can't expand the calendar any further... if I knew a non-destructive way of editing .cod files manually i certainly could... but I don't... Theme Builder doesn't allow for more than 2 lines. If I had it my way it would be 4 lines as I do have many meetings in a given day.

I justed picked up my new 8800 and loaded this theme. Wow! This is the best looking theme I have ever seen on a BB. It's so nice not having to look any further. I often think theme's aren't being designed based on the looks of the device they are running on. In this case it's a perfect match between the device and theme. I am not sure it would have looked as good on my old 8700.

Keep up the good work!

Awesome theme! Thanks for posting it. Another vote for a Zen theme. Also, I noticed that my Messages keep showing 1 unread even though there are no unread messages in my inbox. The calendar seems to work fine for me but the appointment doesn't go the whole line.

Again, it's awesome and my favorite theme. Just giving some feedback.

Another very nice looking theme bro. I love the fonts you've used.

Could you please let us know what the link is for? I see it's a zip containing the theme, but is it an update, or?

Another thing is that I have never installed a theme from my computer, only OTA. I guess it's like installing an app?

//C

Yeah sorry about being lazy.

Those are the source files. I'm not working on either of my current themes anymore. Time to move on to bigger and better ideas I've had.

Love your work!

A request: In the CBT theme there is no SMS count on the home screen but there is when I am in other applications. I have my Inbox and SMS separate and like to be able to see the SMS count from the home screen. Is this a possibility for bothe CBT and Leopard?

Again...Great work and Thank You!

Thanks for replying to my PIN msg and posting the .thm file, keep up the good work!

I LOVE this theme! Great job!

I just bought my first BB last week. Still trying to figure it out. Would someone please share with me how I download this theme to my phone? Only way I saw was to save it to my computer. I went in Application loader, found the file, but it gave me an error.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

can you please add phone log and sms text tabs? Thanks!

I don't think benisntfunny is supporting this theme anymore.

Of all the themes I try I always come back to CBT, it suits me perfectly.

benisntfunny was kind enough to send me the .thm file so that I could modify the theme to suit my needs. A few minor tweaks were needed with the onscreen positioning of things, plus the addition of Call Log on the Today screen. Mostly things that affect my screen and setup and will probably never affect anyone elses.

Whilst I have the ability to do minor (ie not major time-consuming) alterations, it would be for benisntfunny to give me permisssion to do so as he is the author.

I'm replying because a/ CBT is indeed a well designed theme. (I dont need my BB to pretend to be an iPhone, or a Porsche, or a Spaceship)
and b/ because I'm sure I saw CBT being available on some site as a purchase. I have no idea where I saw it, and Im fairly sure the money would not be going to the author.

There you go.

Examples:

Hello CiderGuru,

would you please share your CBT modification with us ?

TIA,
fhead

While I'm not interested in obtaining money for this as the acronym CBT does stand for "Crappy Black Theme" I would like to know who is trying to pass off my pet project as a money making opportunity.

Unfortunately I did stop theming this, and stopped making new ones. I wasn't happy with Plazmic's theme software and did not possess the know how to make a theme in an alternative fashion. That's all pretty unfortunate because I find so many ugly themes on this board here and people are actually trying to ask for money on them.

I really don't get how someone can steal all the graphics to another phone's interface (iPhone) or an operating system (OS X) and then try and charge money for that. If you're not going to make an original theme then you shouldn't charge a penny for it.

I wish it had sms on the front too... then it would be perfect.
Nice theme. sorry to see you are not working on it anymore.