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Originally Posted by Jeff Kirvin
But the interesting thing is that once you get into it and do the required reading (all the threads on how to do this are here on PPCgeeks), building ROMs as I did from Shawn's PR2 kitchen is really just a matter of dragging and dropping folders around and then running a batch file. That's it. The skill required to customize a ROM is really no more than basic PC 101. It gets a lot more complicated when it comes to creating your own kitchen OEM packages or customizing what's out there (for instance, my OEM package of PocketPlayer uses different preset registry settings than the one on the FTP site), but as far as just removing the MSN crap and adding in pre-built OEM packages from the FTP site, anyone can do this if they do about 2 hours of homework learning how. Yes, you still have to do homework.
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Just to chime in here.
A lot of the basic stuff is, as Jeff points out, pretty easy. Small modifications to kitchens (e.g. taking out programs you don't want) and and adding OEMs from the FTP site make kitchen usage fairly accessible (which I believe was the idea to begin with). Of course, there are more complicated steps as well. But for most of what the majority of you would like to do, it should be relatively straightforward.
But the thing is, from at least some of what I've read, there are a lot of people who don't seem interested in doing that basic bit of reading. Jeff has stated that it's pretty easy to duplicate his kitchen (and from what I know, I'd concur), so this is kind of a challenge, I guess: to those of you who would like to see program x or program y, why don't you try doing it? It takes a little bit of reading and playing around with to see how things work, but once you've done that part of it, you can do just about anything you want with the kitchen.
The other key thing, though, is that before you embark on any of this custom ROM stuff, I'd have to agree with somebody else (who can comment if he wants to) that you really should be comfortable with the basics of Windows Mobile first. If you're new to Windows Mobile, stick with an original ROM first, get the feel for it, and only when you have a really good idea of what you like, don't like, and what you'd like to change, should you start traveling down this road. It's too easy to get lost.
