I'm just curious why the layouts have black strips above and below or to the left and right. Why not use the entire real estate of the screen?
If you released this layout with that fixed I'm sure there would be no questions. We were just going to take your theme and overlay this
image from deviant art for Nidzdotnet's cocktail.
I guess loadman was curious about the same thing. He wanted to use this theme on his cocktail but was curious about the black strips above and below the screen. If you can remove those, you have a great layout for Mala.
I'm not a Mala user but I support whatever FE people choose and I happen to love the Mala community and people so I'm happy to help out where I can even if I'm pretty much a noob when it comes to Mala.
If you can solve these issues and maybe PM dmworking (are you a bloody aussie too hehe), that would be great. dmworking already has a great looking theme but it still has those ugly black borders.
Here is the sort of effect dmworking came up with at the end
http://www.got2getalife.com/temp/sample3a.jpgThis is a cocktail vertical cab though remember, so we need that design minus the black strips on the top and bottom of the screen.