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Pimp your "My Programs" Panel...

I thought it would cool to peep some of the mods people have made to their "my programs" panels... kinda get a feel for what is possible, and maybe inspire some different layouts
Special Thanks to Kavana, RickWyatt and NRGZ for all their hardwork and direction... these ROMs kick ass to the fullest...
heres a look at mine:
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how can i put my programs "bubble" in my screen?
how can I change the programs?
Please give us some extra info

Looks Awesome Guy!
Like I said with Rick's new 6.1 (30) Rom you are now in the art department for the Excalibur home screens, with this ROM you can be real creative. You are correct The ROM indeed does Kick's ass............!

Little Icon in My Programs
Does anyone know how to change the small icon next to the title of each My Program app? I would ideally like to remove it instead of having a generic program icon in the title bar for each program.

Here's a few of my screenshots of My programs screen

Poser, what font is that you're using for a system font in your screenshots ? And please.. at least share the icons you're using!

AbsoluteDesignz said:
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did you change your font size?

Svoms said:
did you change your font size?
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I changed the system resolution to 96dpi looks REAL nice but some of the system icons look out of wack and the standard system notification icons (the white ones) don't show...I'm sure one of the coders here can fix that for us but I'm waiting for them to reply in the Higher Resolution thread.

96 Is To High For A Smartphone
AbsoluteDesignz said:
I changed the system resolution to 96dpi looks REAL nice but some of the system icons look out of wack and the standard system notification icons (the white ones) don't show...I'm sure one of the coders here can fix that for us but I'm waiting for them to reply in the Higher Resolution thread.
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96 is ok for a PDA but to high for a smartphone like the Excalibur, which should be in the 82, 83 range, you are not going to have all your Icon on the screen, and the words will get larger. The Excalibur screen is not set up for a 96. I know what you are trying to do, raise the resolution quality, but you got the wrong mobile device, the Excalibur.............!

well the PNG icons work fine, but ur right the system icons are out of wack, I just figured someone would post a dll or whatever that can fix it...i'm sure there is one or 2.

NRGZ28 said:
Poser, what font is that you're using for a system font in your screenshots ? And please.. at least share the icons you're using!
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My man... the icons can be found here and the font is good ole calibri. For some reason, I have quite the affinity for this font.
Speaking of which... does anyone know how to isolate and change the font adopted for rendering by Opera. I love scriptina for my clock font, but for whatever reason the change in 240x320.cpr results in Opera being rendered in scriptina... which reads for $%^&.
edit: @pdaddy... very sharp, very sharp indeed!

Animated wallpapers

Are any good animated wallpapers in WVGA out there?
Does TF3D support them? If not, we could use them for S2U2.
All animations I can find are vor QVGA :-(
I tried making my own by compressing a dreamscene video ans resizing it to WVGA.
It worked, but the filesize was too big and the image quality was too bad...

I also would like to know where I can found animated wallpapers to use them in Manila 2.5

onesolo said:
I also would like to know where I can found animated wallpapers to use them in Manila 2.5
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me and all

+1 here
i don't even know what kind of animated wallpaper it is?? (gif? or what??)
and i wondered 480x800 gif might look awful on HD... since the color is limited to 256 colors in gifs and with such a high resolution...

Haven't seen anything except this which I know isn't exactly what you are looking for.
Also found this thread on same topic, but unfortunately with no success

+1
A truly animated background would be way too sweet!!!

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that .gif would be great for QVGA device

I'm working on a beautiful animation right now!
800×480px animation delivers huge file size!
All I need to do is test it for quality / performanc...
Il upload it soon

digibum said:
I'm working on a beautiful animation right now!
800×480px animation delivers huge file size!
All I need to do is test it for quality / performanc...
Il upload it soon
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so it means manila 2.5's animated wallpaper = 480x800 gif?

Dont know. Im testing it wright now!
Made animated gif file of 7MB size. But doesn't play it!

Don't be silly guys, it's not animated gifs. A quick look in the /windows/My animated wallpaper dir shows a bunch of PNG's which are the actual background used for this (at least in Miri's V9.0). The animations themselves must be included in manilla files, like the weather animations.
So good luck to create your own. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think it will be as easy a creating animated GIFs.
Exemple here (just the background pic without animations)

I don't think that they must be included in manila files. Because when select that you want an animatet wallpaper it takes you to Album where you must srch for it!

digibum said:
I don't think that they must be included in manila files. Because when select that you want an animatet wallpaper it takes you to Album where you must srch for it!
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It sounds logical, you still need to have a preview of the animation.
By the way, I've just checked if by chance those png's were animated (apng format, same extension .png) but they are not. Just a flat background.

Seems I was right: these pics are part of the animation related to the background pic I've just posted. I've extracted them with CFC editor fro chainfire. Same song as for the weather animations. I think we would need a special tool to create our own animations because they are scripted, which is quite more complicated than just a bunch of frames playing constinuously.

any luck with that for now?

Wallpapers

Hey,
I'm a graphic designer and I'm changing wallpapers like every 2 days!
So I was considering creating some wallpaper-packs for you guys, if you are interested.
I can create all kind of "abstract" wallpapers, so
please tell me what you like

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Download here
or
Download here
or
Download here
or
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* use the Wallpapers
* change them in any way as you like
YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED
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* redistribute without permission
* tell somebody that they are yours

Thanks. Perhaps you can show up some of those you like most? BTW can the wallpaper sized 960x800 for the sharpest looking?
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thx man, Sure we are interested
xand as mentioned before if you can make it 960x800 would be greate
and if u can show us those that u really like

Great!
I updated the 2nd post and put 2 wallpaperpacks,
I made yesterday...
Size is 960x800
Tell me if you like the style and what you think

Very nice, thank you.

added new wallpaperpack called hydro!

very nice I like the ferrum pack ... thank u

Hydro just look spectacular, thank you so much and keep up the good work!

hehe, your welcome
I'll keep it up
does anybody want to share a screenshot of the homescreen?
BTW: does anybody know how to get the wallpapers into the regular wallpaper-gallery?
so I don't have to get through the gallery-app to find my wallpapers?

Very nice wallpapers. Keep up the good work!

The ferrum pack is awsome. thanks

I took some Screenshots:
Hydro
Ferrum
Oxy

Knobitrot,love the wallpapers.Any chance of one similar in colour to the Aurora livewallpaper??
Would like it in any of the styles already posted, especially Hydro or Oxy

Thank You.
I like the Hydro, but could you add some red ones - bordeaux or similar, please?

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I took some Screenshots:
Hydro
Ferrum
Oxy
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great homescreen!
A bit off-topic, but what widget is that?? Some sort of appointment widget???

Thanks for the wallpapers they're really nice.

Good Job ,thanks for sharing .sharing is caring.

Knobibrot said:
hehe, your welcome
I'll keep it up
does anybody want to share a screenshot of the homescreen?
BTW: does anybody know how to get the wallpapers into the regular wallpaper-gallery?
so I don't have to get through the gallery-app to find my wallpapers?
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This wallpapers are built-in into the launcher if I'm not mistaken, so I guess not, unless you release your own launcher

Nice job! They look well made, thank you for sharing them so freely with us Knobibrot .
Slightly darker wallpapers would also be really nice. Maybe with some black parts in it as well, since black saves battery .
natsirt789:
what app gives you the little android with the memory under his arm? I see him in the status bar too.

16m colors or 65k colors only? pls look at the image

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pls advise
as promise, hehehe. hope you can test it on your desire's if the gradient will convert to linear gradient, thanks guys.
http://www.mediafire.com/i/?7942das5u2uaz1e
BTW my Menu:

And you noticed that in that picture!
No idea mate - does the wallpaper setter scale down the pictures to some kind of jpeg?

Mmmh that's weird..perhaps android compresses the image chosen as wallpaper pretty much like win7 does? BTW in my humble opinion you should share that wallpaper wether we get the hang of this or not

Hahaha, i just made the wallpaper. Even i view it on gallery, still the gradient is linear. Am a graphic artist that is why it is very easy for me to notice this.
Ok, will upload the original wallpaper later on my pc, so you can test it on your desires. Thanks guys
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

download wallpaper set and save and use it to set it, it's worked on other images i've had this issue with

Raitei said:
download wallpaper set and save and use it to set it, it's worked on other images i've had this issue with
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So do you think, this type of rendering is normal? It's like we're using 65k color format.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

He is telling you to download a program called "Wallpaper set and save".
I have used it too and for some reason, it seems to make the wallpaper look better.
You should try it out.
And share the wallpapers so that we can see if ours do the same.

ZigmaDK said:
He is telling you to download a program called "Wallpaper set and save".
I have used it too and for some reason, it seems to make the wallpaper look better.
You should try it out.
And share the wallpapers so that we can see if ours do the same.
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hahaha, my mistake, ok, let try that, thanks

WOW! that really did the job, thanks a lot. so the "gallery" of htc sucks i guess, or the graphic rendering of either Eclair or Froyo sucks, co'z as i still browse on the gallery, the linear gradient of the image still exist.

[Wallpaper set][Updated 4 may] Not for Mango!

I created these simple wallpapers with transparency. The grey is 75% transparant.
New! Windows Logo pack:
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WP7 wallpapers:
Stars pack. These are also 75% transparant:
The lockscreen becomes transparant when there is an animation, so when you touch it is tranparant.
Download:
WP7 Wallpapers.zip
Stars Pack.zip
Windows logo pack.zip
How to:
1. First download the zip file with the wallpapers.
2. Mail the wallpaper you want to yourself.
3. Go to the mail with your Windows Phone.
4. Tap on the pic in the mail. This will download it. Like pictures in e-mails.
5. Open the pic.
6. Don't save it to your phone. Tap 'use as wallpaper' from the options.
7. Now you have a nice lockscreen.
It won't work with password on!
Let me know what you think about them.

really like the idea of this, just one question, when I set it as wallpaper and wake the phone up (Not touching it) it shows the wallpaper as it should but in the background it shows the full image of the lockscreen off centre faintly in the background..
It's quite hard to explain but I don't yet have a camera I can take a picture of.. although when I do touch the screen to open it the opacity shows and looks nice..
I'm running mango if that may mean anything.
Cheers,
MVP

iammvp said:
really like the idea of this, just one question, when I set it as wallpaper and wake the phone up (Not touching it) it shows the wallpaper as it should but in the background it shows the full image of the lockscreen off centre faintly in the background..
It's quite hard to explain but I don't yet have a camera I can take a picture of.. although when I do touch the screen to open it the opacity shows and looks nice..
I'm running mango if that may mean anything.
Cheers,
MVP
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Glad you like the idea. It isn't working because of Mamgo. They took it out of Windows Phone 7.5. But maybe I will make wallpapers without transparency for Mango.
Tbo-art

Its possible on Mango too http://www.1800pocketpc.com/transparent-wallpapers-on-windows-phone-mango/23802/

the0ne said:
Its possible on Mango too http://www.1800pocketpc.com/transparent-wallpapers-on-windows-phone-mango/23802/
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Didn't know about that trick. Thanks

tbo-art said:
Didn't know about that trick. Thanks
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Anytime
-the guy that stumbled on that trick

Thanks for the find.. Bit disappointing that there is no work around for the vertical pattern =[

iammvp said:
Thanks for the find.. Bit disappointing that there is no work around for the vertical pattern =[
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I don't like it too.