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The term theme refers to a set of design elements installed in +a package in a mobile device based on the Symbian platform that determines +the visual appearance of the UI. Themes, also known as skins, only +affect the visual appearance of the UI, the underlying architecture, interaction +style, language settings, and general functionality are not affected.

+Personalization through themes +

The Symbian platform provides an API to allow you to support themes +in your applications. Although a mobile device based on the Symbian platform +can contain several themes, mobile device users can only activate one theme +at a time. When a new theme is activated, the appearance of all applications +that support themes is altered.

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The following list contains some of the UI design elements that can +change:

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Themes also support SVG-T graphics, which allow them to be scalable. +Themes can contain bitmaps or SVG graphics or a mixture of both.

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For more information on the API that enables theme support in applications, +see the Skins +API documentation.

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For information on tools available for creating and modifying themes, +see Forum +Nokia.

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