I am not someone who likes changing themes often. I like themes that look elegant, polished and definitely not brash. Over the last seven or so months of owning the N900, I have tried almost every theme that is available and have come away with the following as my picks.
Most of these themes comes from the Maemo repositories so make sure you have them enabled. Then just type the name to search in the Application Manager and install. So without further adieu, here are my must have themes for the N900, in no particular order.
- Black Plastic – The lists in this theme are shaded differently, nice change.
- an-DROID – One of my favorites. Love the colours on this one.
- Bossa Teal – For times when you want custom icons. Seems to slow down the phone though and takes 6MB in rootfs.
- Carbon – Brilliant. Dark. Polished. Makes the N900 look good.
- D-Theme Red – I like red themes. They go well with the black on the N900. This is part of the D-Theme series, check them out for different colours.
- iStyle Black – Part of the iStyle series. Best of the lot.
- Matrix – Its here because it goes amazingly well with the Matrix live wallpaper. Plus I like the vibrant colours too.
- Red Alert – Another red theme, but sadly not part of the repositories so you will have to manually download and install if you liked it. Get the .deb here, locate it in the file manager and tap to install.
- R-Style Green – Part of the beautiful R-Style series that features similar design in new colours. Green is easily my favourite.
So there you have it, those were my picks. Think there is a theme that deserves to be in this list that I have missed out? Please let me know. What themes do you like?
Hi!
I just got my n900 couple of days back..and am loving it.. I just wanted to ask , how did you manage to do the conversations tab – that incorporates the messages, IM and Bluetooth. Which s/w did you use?
My Favorite I just discovered NuvoFre
as per http://konttoristhoughts.blogspot.com/2010/06/nuvofre-108.html
Also Marina is very nice, and harmony too.
He just put the bluezswitch widget on top of the generic conversations widget
Exactly! 🙂
And how did you outline your widgets ? looking straight
Carbon is my favorite. These themes all look fine, but they all look kind of similar to me.
Excellent & Beautiful themes
olaf, this should help!
http://themeegoblog.com/2010/02/25/n900-homescreen-setup-ideas-tricks/
Great post, how did you get that calendar widget with the full date on it?
hey thanks for shots, really gud.
Marina theme is the best, definitely.
Very good idea, where can I find the Carbon theme ?
Thanks
Octavio, its in the repos. Look for instructions on how to enable them here and then simply search for it – http://bit.ly/repos
Pascal, its the multi date widget, again from the repos.
hows did u write yoour name on the status bar next to the battery sign?