Submitting Fbsplash Themes

So, you created a cool new theme and you want to share it with the rest of the world? The best way to do this is to submit it for inclusion in our theme repository. To do so, just follow the guidelines below:

  1. Make sure your theme contains a valid metadata.xml file. The metadata is important, as it will be used to automatically generate info pages in our theme repository.

  2. Validate your theme. You can do this in a variety of different ways. First, download thememeta.xsd and then run:

    • using libxml2 (dev-libs/libxml2 in Gentoo): xmllint –schema thememeta.xsd metadata.xml,
    • using xmlstarlet (app-text/xmlstarlet in Gentoo): xml val -e -s thememeta.xsd metadata.xml.

  3. Make sure your theme is properly packed. The theme package should be a gzip-ed (tar.gz) or bzip2-ed (tar.bz2) tar archive containing a single directory which should match the name of your theme as specified in the metadata.xml file.

  4. Send your theme to alanhaggai@alanhaggai.org.

  5. Wait for it to be processed and to appear in the theme repository on this website. Since theme submissions are processed by a human, it might take a few days before the process is completed.