As many of you know, Litestep.net offered a huge collection of themes before it went down a few months ago. A few days ago I asked jugg and DeVilbOi who ran the site if i could try to import some of the themes hosted on litestep.net. They agreed and jugg sent me the theme backup.

So today, I imported the latest versions of recent OTS2 themes in the backup - 268 themes overall. You can browse through them here.

If you are the original author of any of the themes and want to add them to your account or remove them from this website, please contact me.

Thanks again to jugg and DeVilbOi from Litestep.net!

I'm very proud to present to you the new german LiteStep community page: http://www.litestep-forum.de. It's launched today and I hope it will be a good medium for german LiteStep users to communicate and learn from each other. A second hope that I have is, that LiteStep will become better known in the german Internet with the help of my page. I welcome you to come by and take a look around. It's pretty empty right now, but I think this will change fast (at least I hope it :P). 

I'm very sorry about this almost 4 week long downtime. So, what happend? Basically a friend's domain was billed together with the server this website runs on. We forgot about that domain and didn't pay for it, so the hoster switched the domain off and took the server down with it :-( So i first had to find out what was the problem, which took almost two weeks before i got a new bill from the hoster. And then it took two weeks to switch the server back on after i payed >_< I'm glad the server is back now, but all the waiting with no new information was really annoying. I guess it's time to find a new hosting company :-/

I can hardly belive it has been more than 3 years already since i launched LS-Themes.org. When i decided to make this website, Litestep.net had been down for months, Ls-Universe.info had no themes yet and i felt the Litestep community needed a place, dedicated only to Litestep, where themers could share their themes.

Looking back, i think the website turned out pretty well, due to the help of everyone who visited the site, submitted themes and screenshots or gave feedback and suggestions. The site itself also changed it's face over the years with all the great site schemes as well as every suggestion and bug report i recieved.

But the website always had technical problems - it was my first larger software project and i lacked almost any experience - and became constantly harder to work on at all. Finally, over the last few months, i found the time to write a new version with many of the features i was missing at the other Litestep websites.

So today, i am very proud to present to you: LS-Themes.org V2

Some guidelines and new features:

• The modules section was generated from shellfront's module list. I wrote a program to extract descriptions from the modules docs, but not all modules have descriptions yet.
• If you wrote a module, please visit it's page and "claim" it. Afterwards you can edit it's description and categorize it with tags. 
• The modules section is a NetLoadModule site too. You can use it with *Netloadmodulesite "http://www.ls-themes.org/modules/download/"
• After logging in, you can manage your submission from the personal page.

So much for now ... take a look around, i hope you like it :-)

I fixed and added a bunch of stuff and added alot documentation and examples. So if you have any bugs, feature requests or problems with the docs, feel free to contact me or post them oin the comments. 


Changelog:
- i rewrote one half the code and restructured the other ... so i understand it now completely ;-)
- added tracebacks to error messages
- lslua will never die! ( it wont stop working after an error anymore ) This means you will see *all* errors, but you might have to click "ok" alot too!
- added LSLuaErrorFile <path>: If set, errors are dumped to the file.
- the older version created a new lua thread for *every call to lslua*, which is completely pointless. It also was implemented wrong ( without any syncronizing between the threads ) so the "threads" could corrupt each other, resulting in error messages like "cannot index <some global table>, a uservalue"
- lslua.message_box is extremely nice now and accepts 1 or 2 arguments which will be converted to strings or displayed as a type if that's not possible
- added: lsmodule.after, lsmodule.every, lsmodule.callback (see docs)
=== this might break your scripts ===
- removed the threading module ( pointless )
- removed the timer module -> use lsmodule.timer
- lslua.mouse returns x,y directly: use "x,y = lslua.mouse()"

Greetings, yet again i come in peace and with an anouncement regarding the litestep distribution that could be ots3:
Since Andymon released his great ThemeManager with support for ots3, i have all the tools required for a "normal" Litestep distribution. So i made one :]
Features:
- a neat installer
- full ots2 compability (if not its a bug)
- no additional requirements ( "no python" )
- all that ots3 stuff

Why use it?
While nothing speaks *against* using it, there are only meta benefits from using it either.
What i mean by that is that nothing will change if you just install and use it. How could it, since your Theme will stay the same and there are no ots3 themes so far.
There is only one reason to use it: IF you improve it, everyone, including you, can benefit from it. OTS2 wont change anymore, but OTS3 can and will benefit from your help!

So, if i you want to try it, please do and please leave comments here or over at ls-universe.info!

One last word of warning thou: Since LOSI and this distro both use Andymons ThemeManager, either will stop working if you install the other on the same user account ( different is fine). You will have to change the LitestepDir/ThemeDir/ProfileDir in the TM if you want to switch back to the older installation.

Installer is here Docs are here

Yep, "Schemes" Thats the plural!

The first: "LiteTron" A dark tech style with some nice pro looking textures that make you giddy while browsing themes.

The Second: "SuperLoop" its another dark setup, but this has a special background, and a unique "Professional" design. Sleek attractive, and slightly wacked out.

The Third (I hope THC4k uploads it) is the superbly outrageous "Kawaii" heinous pink butterfly with the cutest color scheme imaginable! :D


I made them, so I am allowed to gloat and write a wacky News Item for em :p

Get logged in and check em out while they are hot hot hot!

xPaintClass now has texture/font rotation, Jpeg/Gif support and loads of other new features.

Get the beta (stable) and comment about it here:
http://www.ls-universe.info/comment.php?comment.news.407



lscolor has been updated to version 1.6.3

Description:
A simple module that sets evars for system color/font/size values.

Changes:
Added metric evars.
Added !refresh support
Added "*lscoloronchange" rc setting.
Added Revision ID info for the about box.
Added !lscolorupdate Bang command.
Added license info to main.cpp and lscolor.h
Renamed all instances of "IconTitleFont" to the shorter "IconFont"

Download:
Its in the shellfront archive, so you can simplyrun the NLM bang:
!NetReloadModule lscolor-1.6.3

or use the RC setting and !recycle:
*NetLoadModule lscolor-1.6.3

;)

I made a new site scheme that uses your system colors (CSS2) for the site colors :x

Pretty cool ;)