m4riNa D4rk theme and iconset
Talk user "D4rKlar" has posted a series of zips which replace existing icons with revamped versions: Many many thanks to wazd for the original Marina Theme, D-iivil for his constant help at every stage (pretty much since I joined the community!) Mankir for the calendars and all the originators of the original pre-modded icons, including Biggzy for his systeminfowidget and the original bookmark applet from which I based mine. Icons not made by myself are generally from the usual sources like DeviantART, iconsite myway and iconarchive. Overwriting files like this obviously has drawbacks (including the inability to uninstall properly) and given these are being distributed as random zip files on a forum, none of the normal QA has been applied. Broken themes can result in reboot-loops, which may require a reflash.
AwOken iconset
Continuing the "leet" spellings, "AIMehdi" has published a silver icon theme to be used with Theme Customizer. He says, It would not have been possible if it was not for the awesome open-source community. A special thanks goes to alecive87 that are the original author of this theme. You can visit home at deviantart to view his other work. A truly awesome dude! Also D-livil's tiredless awesomeness of community worker should be credited. He helped me pack and put it in the repos. The package, "awoken-icon-theme", is available in Extras-devel. Usual caveats about keeping -Devel enabled and upgrading arbitrary applications from there apply.
Quick Widgets: run QML as Maemo desktop applets
Malte Marquarding has released a Maemo home screen widget wrapper for Qt Quick (that is, QML) files to act as desktop widgets. He says, I am looking forward to people posting their useful widgets. QML is the strategic direction for Maemo, MeeGo and Symbian user interfaces; and can wrap up some fairly complex functionality themselves. The wrapper, in Extras-devel, has more than the usual caveats as - running as part of the desktop - it theoretically could put your device into a reboot loop.