Default Icons on Any Custom theme

Default Icons on Any Custom theme Written by admin

Personally I’m fancied with custom icons on themes,rather than living with same old Nokia icons.That’s the reason for me to post more themes with special icon sets,like the ones made by Giambi,LucaP,Babi,P@sco,Flahorn and Acidsonic.I love them and always want to thank them for their hard artwork.But I also see that there are some people who love custom themes but not their icons as they do prefer to have default icons.(No wonder cos I have a friend of mine who owns an 5700 XpressMusic and surprisingly he is very satisfied with the default themes on it and says that non of the custom themes keep him going as the default ones,so we do come across a mixture of ideas in each case)True they are good but don’t please me in every day use.But unfortunately for them not all the top theme makers release a Default Icon Version(DIV) along with all their superb themes.
But no worries at all,as there is always a solution within the s60 platform itself.Dunno if everybody knows it or every 3rd edition device offers this option,but on my N95 8GB it has this option.Whenever you wish to see default icons on a custom theme that comes with custom icons all you have to do is go to Options>Icon animation>On while you are in the menu window.Which will instantly turn all your custom icons back into their default ones,but with a little pop-up animation when you select them(the animation works only for pre-installed stuff,though).Also you might notice some slight difference between the animated ones and the original default icons in the edges,they might have this pixellated effect around the edges,and also bit smaller than the original ones,if you take a closer look at it.I think that this happens because the animated icons are in some other format.But at least you have the icon set as you wish.So try this and let me know,whether this is possible on other devices too.

Custom Theme with Custom Icon set

Custom Theme with Default Icon set

Custom Theme with Custom Icon set,but with Icon animation on

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