Is it just me or is there anybody else who loathes the midnight themes we have had forced upon on us on the update?
I used the Nokia 'black' theme (badly named, but basically the standard green grass against blue sky theme) mainly because everything else just didn't look as nice and clean, at least to my eyes.
Anyway as I feared, the theme was nowhere to be seen on installing 'Anna'. So I had to go on look for the file manually on-line which thankfully I found. The theme works fine apart from the the new email view which for some reason seems to rendered incorrectly with the wrong colour balance.
On the screen shot included here it actually looks 10 times better for some reason then it does in real life, but the email text should not be blue, and neither the day banner, which in real time viewing is faint and hardly visible. I have tried all sort of themes and the only ones that look acceptable (in the email app) are the 'midnight' ones. Is anybody else having this issue or is it just moi???
As for the 'midnight' themes..well I am bemused. I think they look atrocious. They all go against the design cues and theme of the phone and all the apps that are being developed for it. They could not have picked a worse 'theme' design to go with the lovely colourful 'anna' icons.
In my opinion the themes just have this awful garish 'neon' tinted gaudy effect straight from the 80's I just do not know what Nokia were thinking. I can imagine Apple are just cringing in disbelief.
Take the 'conversations app' for example. When you have say the copper or green midnight theme installed for example, it just does not fit in with the design cues of that application. You have the lovely fresh white on grey or black on white with a hint of blue on each speech bubble and then at the bottom this awful dull midnight theme which is completely at odds with the design and look of the app.
Same for the calendar view. You have all the bright highlight colours you can use to designate different calenders followed by the event that you might have listed and then sitting on top of that is this awful dull one-tone garish neon attempt at a monthly view which is again is completely at odd's with design cues of the original software..it's just looks terrible. Can you imagine Apple doing this?
The original theme (all though not amazing) just used mainly a black background and then subtle simple use of blue, green (mainly for highlighting) and grey. Why on earth could they not have revamped this slightly?
All the fresh new apps coming out of QT like Nokia Drop are using the those same simple clean colour highlights. In fact the N9 is either white or black background with a dash of grey and use of either Orange or a nice shade of blue for highlighting etc. Beautiful, clean and contemporary.
It would have really nice to have a couple of fresh new themes to go with Anna but instead we have these..completely bonkers!
Yes i know there are tons of themes you can download but they are never the same quality.