I've ported the theme from aqua-soft.org from vBulletin to SMF. The original vB 3.x style was recently released (see: http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=22419) for free.

The style is not 100% accurate, because there are too much differences between vB and SMF, but it's pretty close

You can choose it in your profile (look and layout preferences, at the top of the page).

A few minor things are still missing and will be updated in the future.

Also, there is only one color scheme (the blue one) instead of the 3 schemes included in the original style.

Been using it some days now. Noticed some changes... great work!

Glad to see you using SMF

How long before you release this theme/style?
It is excellent

The templates + stylesheeet probably soon. The artwork not, because it's copyright by the staff at aqua-soft.org (they created it for their vB 3 style and released it for free, but with limited distribution rights).

I'am going to release a style with own or SMF default artwork - but it should be easily possible to just change the images and some colors to get the original aqua style back

If by artwork, you mean the images, I would thing they would be copyrighted to Apple and not aqua-soft.  I find it hard to believe that those images are not original ones from Mac OS X

cheers
DT

Yeah, I'am talking about the images. I don't know if they are original - I have seen OS X a few times, but don't know it so well to say if they are. Either way, they are copyrighted and that's why I don't want to distribute them.

Understood.  The giveaway is the calendar ... the 17th!

I'm a Mac user and this theme is so OS-X like it is scary ... but I love it!

Is there a correlation anywhere between the VB image names and the SMF ones?

DT

Most things will be taken care of by the stylesheet (background gradients for example, or the background icons in the top menu bar).

Anything else should be pretty easy to figure out (assuming, one has *some* knowledge about how SMF templates and styles work).

I just started wiith SMF tonight ... currently using pnPHPBB2.  I've tweaked the latter to embed quicktime .mp3 and .mov files.  I'm hoping to do the same with this, if I move to it. So I'm not overly familiar with the templates and styles yet.

Templates are complex but very powerful in SMF. This is, because they are basically written in PHP and not in some kind of meta language like in most other boards. So a SMF template can do much more than a phpBB template. The SMF template system also creates much less overhead than other template systems do, because there is no need for a complex parser and no need for a caching system which ususally stores the compiled templates as .php files (and recompiles them if needed).

The disadvantage of this system may be that it is a bit harder to get familar with the template system and it requires some PHP knowledge.

The look and speed of SMF interest me.  Still need to explore the functionality and ease of batch entering users with specific forum permissions.

Should be easier than under phpBB. In general, the admin panel of SMF offers much more features than the acp of phpBB 2.0.x.

This theme does not look like the AQUA one for me

DT

Excellent

DT

The previous reply was from me! duh  :knuppel2:

Great thanks for the info, what, however can I do about the theme not loading correctly?

Nightwish

Re: the popup options under Search, Quicklinks etc.
Are they currently unique to your forum or should I be able to do that as well with the most recent version of your theme on my site?

cheers
DT

I have released that version (with the vBulletin - DHTML menus). You can find it here:

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=30772.0  (last page...)

Thanks for the fix, however what can I do about the 'Unable to load the 'main_above' template.' error I get from the tgheme? where should Istart looking for the problem?