## Introduction

Carbide.ui Theme Edition is a tool for creating, editing, and packaging themes for S60 / Symbian devices. Themes enable the creation of a custom UI by altering the look and feel or sound of customizable UI components. Theme components are display or sound items that can be customized to build a graphical UI or emit sounds initiated by certain actions or events on the device.

Carbide.ui provides all the tools needed to define a theme; however, it does not include tools to create the graphics or sounds used to customize components. To create graphics and sounds, third-party bitmap editors, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) editors, and audio editors are required. Carbide.ui can be configured to use these applications for editing graphics or audio content.

Figure: Themes can be used to radically alter the look and feel of S60 / Symbian devices’ UI

Note: Changing a device's theme only affects the look and feel of the UI. The functions and features of the phone are not changed.
This help is divided into three parts. The first provides comprehensive information on installing and configuring Carbide.ui along with a description of the features of Carbide.ui. The section part provides insight into the best practices for approaching themes development. The final part is a comprehensive reference of the components in S60 / Symbian themes.