More Potential In Panels .....?? - XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps

I love the X1 and the whole panel feature.. For some reason I feel it's being heavily under utilized/developed.. Is it just me? Let me know if I am crazy and dreaming or if these are some workable ideas..
To be more specific I feel like it should do more than just change the layout of the desktop screen or the today screen. I feel it should also
1.)change the theme throughout along with the change of the today screen.
2.)show all panels readily available rather than the limit of 9 at a time
or introduce sub-panels a perhaps 3 in 1 method so if you choose that
group 3 are readily available without going back to panel manager.
3.)potentially have the ability to switch to a different style interface <TF3D>
4.)have the ability to optimize for a certain category of applications. For
example if there was a games panel with all the games available and it also
changed/configured tweaks during the panel use only. <possibilities endless>

Hmm, let's see...
1) There are 6.5 Themes that you can apply through system settings. Panel interface will not alter system theme, sorry.
2) There are youtube vids of new X2 Panel Manager, it's much better. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA8BQod9AiI
3) Already possible, I switch between PointUI Pointsense, SPB Mobile Shell 3, and TF3D.
4) See answer 2.

Hannigan174 said:
Hmm, let's see...
1) There are 6.5 Themes that you can apply through system settings. Panel interface will not alter system theme, sorry.
2) There are youtube vids of new X2 Panel Manager, it's much better. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA8BQod9AiI
3) Already possible, I switch between PointUI Pointsense, SPB Mobile Shell 3, and TF3D.
4) See answer 2.
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Thanks for the info... I am impressed with the fact that they are working on the panel manager and the progress that they've made.. Makes me feel better..
I'm just saying we're paying some benjamins for these high quality phones so I want the works.. Thanks again!

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[ROM][New video demos]Schap's 5.00 ROMs with TouchXperience UI-Call to beta testers

As some of you know, I am currently working on a touch user interface (since more than 10 months), fully compatible with HTC Diamond, it even takes advantage of G-sensor and touch-sensitive control pad, and I plan to develop a 3D user interface in a future version.
I will prepare soon a private beta, and if there is no major issue I would like to release a first public version in about 2 weeks. But please don’t take too much into consideration this date, be aware that contrary to other ROM cookers who only take programs from other ROMs I have developed the whole user interface from scratch, so it’s a really huge work (more than 1000 hours at the moment) and it’s hard to fix a release date.
As for other devices, Diamond ROMs will be multilingual and available in two versions: Full (with TouchXperience User Interface) and Lite (maximal storage space).
I am looking for some motivated and experienced people to participate to this private beta. I need only about 20 people so I will choose first people who could really help me, better is if you have WM cooking or development knowledges. I don’t want to get thousands of messages asking “please please send me the ROM” like it was in the other threads, so please don’t ask me to participate if you don’t have solid arguments. If you are interested, let me a post here (explaining in what you are good, if I don’t know you) and I will contact you later by PM if you are selected.
More info about TouchXperience User Interface and video demos:
http://www.touchxperience.com/
TouchXperience is the Next Generation User Interface for Windows Mobile, finger friendly and highly customizable, it offers many interesting features: program launcher, contacts manager, home screen, appointments, messaging, task manager, profile and event manager, call log, control panel, communication manager,...
TouchMenu is probably the most powerful and customizable menu, replacing original Start Menu for an innovative touch interface. TouchMenu supports finger scrolling and gestures, for example you can switch from a menu to another by sliding your finger left/right, or display context menu by a long press on the screen. You can also scroll menus using G-sensor. Each menu has four different views (large list, small list, large grid, small grid). As the rest of the future user interface, TouchMenu has a nice Vista/WM7 look.
TouchMenu has various built-in menus :
- All Programs (Start Menu replacement)
- Active Programs (Task Manager)
- Recent programs
- Favorite programs
- Settings (Control Panel)
- Documents
- Favorite websites
- Contacts
- Messaging
- Appointments
- Tasks
- Calls (Call Log)
- Communications (Comm. Manager)
- RSS feeds
- Power Actions
- End Actions
- One Touch Settings
But you can do much more by creating your own custom menus where you can add contacts, program shortcuts, website links, system actions (for example: reset device, rotate screen, sound profile, clock, brightness backlight, WMP status,...) or links to other menus. You can also replace icon for each program/folder/contacts/menu with a custom image.
TouchHome is a fully customizable screen where you can add various widgets and graphical elements (clocks, indicators, today items, texts, images,...). By default, TouchHome displays when you turn your phone on. You can make your own graphics and layout using XML. TouchHome can be also used as screen unlocker (unlock screen by sliding finger, by double tapping, by shaking device, using navigation scroll wheel,...).
Use GPS or cell-based geo-positioning to determine current location and create profiles for each location.
Custom Events is a powerful application which execute predefined actions when custom events occur. The principle is simple, each custom event is defined by:
- A basic event (application changed, location changed, new message, new incoming call, battery charging, device cradled, headset connected, Wi-Fi network detected, internet connection detected, ,...)
- Eventually some conditions (date/time, current application, current location, specific words in message, caller identity,...)
- An action (launch application, display notification, enable flight mode, turn on Wi-Fi, change profile, send message, ,...)
There will be hundreds of events and actions, so possibilities are very large! Here are some examples:
- Enable flight mode during nights
- Connect to Wi-Fi while battery is charging
- Deactivate alarm when I turn my device face down
- Put phone in silent mode at workplace
- Remind me to buy bread when I’m near to the bakery
Supports finger gestures on touch-sensitive control pad (experimental, for HTC Touch Diamond/Touch Pro only) to execute different system actions, in this way you can have up to 8 “virtual buttons” on your device.
Supports display auto-rotation navigation using G-sensor (experimental, for HTC Touch Diamond/Touch Pro only).
TouchXperience User Interface is designed for a future usage of hardware accelerated 3D graphics for an outstanding experience!
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WOW!!
Good to see you......Let me know what I can do for you
Peace
Mike
very nice shaps! I hope this post will be more serious and wont end like ur thread in hermes forum..
Realease it when it's done! no preasure!
Schaps!!! Count me in mate... great to see you here.
WOW! i can't wait. Looking forward to your work.
Cool!!!
Looks great!!!!
Tell me if you need a beta tester for this project...
i would be glad to help
Sounds really really nice.
If I can be of any help I'll be glad to, comes from Hermes and Kaiser and now has Diamond.
Tried some of your roms before and liked some, but not all, but this seems really exciting.
Garcia
Network and database admin here (though mostly unix). Lemme know what needs to be done.
^.^
Good luck schaps.
Sounds great. I'm happy to check this for ya.
I'd like to volunteer, I have experience with graphics.
Count Me In... Deeep Within !!!!!!!!!!!
THANKS!!!!!!! (sorry 4 the caps) but this is coooollll!!!!!
Very Very Good Schap's
I can Help
Hello mate,
I have cooked (mostly my own) ROMs for Elf, Niki and Cruise so I have considerable background on the components of the WM OS and the overall structure of the devices (not so much the Diamond to be honest as I'm still trying to get to understand its internals).
If you like, I would more than willing to help out with Beta testing whether it's to focus on a specific area or just overall testing. I also have experience in QA so I can pick out little things that need ironing out
Cheers from Dubai!
WOAH! Schaps, this sounds awesome. I'd be happy to beta test your TouchXperience UI. Coming from an iPhone background, I'd love to see more thumb/finger friendliness in our Diamonds.
EDIT: Checked out the site and the screenshots and it looks fab so far !
Couple of questions, would there be a new finger/thumb friendly Calendar app? (I totally despise the stock WM one) Also, do you plan on integrating a more thumb friendly keyboard for input? The standard Diamond one is okay but I tend to be a fast typer and because the screen on the Diamond is relatively small, it is prone to keystroke errors and the Diamond keyboard does not have any type of correction method (i.e. as included with the PCM Keyboard - I use this but a lack of VGA skins is highly disappointing).
All in all I can't wait to test this - I thought the Diamond would have been more thumb/finger friendly but tend to find myself pulling out the dreaded stylus now and then.. Something I hoped I could have gotten away from. Cheers for the great effort Schaps!
WOW
Love to test the new interface.
Moral Support!!
Schap,
im not a pro in any of these programming. But at least i can sent some moral supports!!
It's a great development All the best to you
Very nice ...I will pleasure, when i test this program...
schaps said:
P.S.: I will soon work on a new Advanced Config. version fully compatible with Touch Diamond and Touch Pro. Advanced Configuration Tool V3 will come with a new finger-friendly interface.
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@ Schaps, could you look into the possibility to add "default mediaplayer chooption" in order to link Bluetooth devices to other players not forcing to use WMP linked with TF3D .
There is a cab out there from RuffRuff (still need to test it) , but including this possible solution in AdvConfig V3 would be a big added value.
As for the Beta testing , it starts to look like recruting for La Legion etrangere (The Foreign Legion)
People want but how many can give ?
Anyway, success with the new UI + Rom combination. Looking forward.

WAD2 Themes for HD (Wisbar Advanced Desktop)

I really like Wisbar Advanced Desktop 2 and love how customizable it is. I have experience inc reating skins/themes for it but see there are a lot of poeple out therethat have done it for many other lower resolution devices. We need to have some folks do the same for wvga 480x800 devices.
Some of you have probably noticed other asking people to share cabs and such for themes that look like windows vista or OSX desktops and these were done with WAD2. I will share links to some of those screen shots and will post mine and the files (they are in the 5th link down with install instructions) it takes to use mine. I would really love to see this thread grow in this community because i think these are the best themes yet.
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13377 - this is my personal favorite theme, vista looks great!!! but it is qvga
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=60 - this is the WAD2 company forums, specifically the themse section. Lots of good stuff in here, but all fo rlower resolution devices
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14619 - one of the few vga themes
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14618 - WVGA theme!!! Havent tried it yet but will
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13631 - this has a wvga version which i do have running on my HD (See below for my screenshot). Instructions included on this if you want to try it out
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14588 - blackberry bold theme, of course also QVGA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKxxG52tsO4 - a youtube video of the iphone skin/theme
http://www.wp-wordpress.com/skin-manila2d-for-wad2-17-11-08 - a manila 2d skin for WAD2
http://skinswad2.blogspot.com/ - Android skin/theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtGprrihqbU - Youtube video of a neat "Dare to touch" theme
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14312- OSX, very nice
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13188 - crysis
OK that is probably enough examples to spar you interest. So who knows this stuff and wants to help this HD community get some of this going? There are some efforts over in the xperia forum working on 1 themes but all in all I don't see much at all going on and I personally do not understand why this isn't hotter than it is.
Excellent thread starter. I wanted to know what could be done with WAD and the HD Touch. The themes you have thumbnailed look really good.
Regards
Thank you very much well after toying for it for just a half hour I have figured out a LOT of cool stuff. So far I have taken the theme you see above and added a second page which it transitions to with the swipe of finger to the right. n that page I added a link to a phone number which can have it dial or bring up the summary to select mobile, home, office etc. I see that as my contacts page. Wow i am excited about adding all kinds of pages now haha. For now I must stuff though and take my son to the movies then I am going to be up real late perfecting this. I hope others find this as fun as me and maybe we can become an authority in WAD2 skinning for the HD!!!
mallman said:
This has a wvga version which i do have running on my HD (See below for my screenshot). Instructions included on this if you want to try it out
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Yep, i'd like to try it. But i don't see this exact theme on lakeridge page: your one has only background different, and the instructions there lead to the same result? Since i really like the way you have disposed the page
EDIT: ok, figured myself
I tried the WVGA theme you are currently running and like it very much, I think WAD2 has tons of potential, if only the WVGA theme didn't need to dPad to customise the screen positions ...
Maybe I am missing something, but every link I try to download this theme from i seem to get the VGA version (you can check in the files the background is 640 pixels in height). And when i try to install the theme the layout is completly distorted.
Anyone has an idea on this?
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I tried the WVGA theme you are currently running and like it very much, I think WAD2 has tons of potential, if only the WVGA theme didn't need to dPad to customise the screen positions ...
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i connect my device to my pc and connect to it with mymobile. The arrow keys on your pc will then act as the dpad Am going to post what I have been able to accomplish in a bit
ok slowly figuring out this WAD2 thing. Here are my efforts in modding the theme shown on the first page. I added addition pages, all of which run really fast and all use finger gestures (swipe right a page, swipe left a different page, up addition pages similar to the one you're on etc etc)
Cool....probably can use dual today to switch....
ectoric said:
Cool....probably can use dual today to switch....
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well depends on what you want. I dont want TF3D so when I press the home key I can jsut go straight to the main today screen. You could also jsut install second today and put a widget on the desktop to it. kinda kimitless to whatyou can do with WAD2 as long as you are willing to put in the time to create it. im loving development with it
This is the obvious next step in designing themes which make the phone more usable and unique.......now just to figure out how to do it
Has anyone here tried using the mobile vista theme on HD? I got WAD2 and tried it, but its all small resolution like if it was designed for diamond... Is it just me or is there a 480x800 version out there?
Cheers
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Has anyone here tried using the mobile vista theme on HD? I got WAD2 and tried it, but its all small resolution like if it was designed for diamond... Is it just me or is there a 480x800 version out there?
Cheers
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yes and you should be able to fix it pretty easily. just click and hold on the desktop to change it to author mode. Next just click and hold on the icons and graphics you want to move and select "move"
It will tell you to move it with the D pad which the HD doesnt have obviously. I use a program called "Mymobile" to display my HD screen on my pc. By doing that I can move things by using the arrrow keys on my pc Install Mymobile (its free) and get creative.
Just wanted to share my progress in creating my own theme. I have also included the exported theme here but have no idea how importing a theme works with WAD2. In the settings there is a button "Import theme" and assume it imports all icons and such but someone will have to try it and let me know. Obviously if you do not have the programs and contacts I have linked in here they will not work on yours so you would have to update the link and all that good stuff. Sceenshots are below and you can go to http://www.swampthing.net/grass.zip to download the theme.
Navigation:
1. Pressing the unlock icon on the initial page brings you into the desktop page.
2. Swiping finger up on the desktop screen (the one with the cloud/temperature, clock, taskbar etc) will lock the screen to the initial page.
3. Swiping your finger from left to right and from right to left progresses through the pages.
4. On contacts and applications pages, swiping your finger up and down brings you through additional contact and app pages
5. Pressing various icons will start programs associated with them such as the clock icon will bring up the windows time/alarm settings
You have to unzip the theme and copy it to your device before you can import it. ENJOY
Future Enhancements:
1. I will add an additional weather page by swiping finger from top to bottom with an alternate city
2. I will put a map together of the navigation at some point. Small unfinished one is attached below
2. Use my imagination to think of something else
Looks really good. I do like the way you have played with this. I think I will be having a play soon as I like the layout possibilities within WAD2.
Regards
vista theme.. but low resolution
WAD2 Themes for HD...
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WAD2 Themes for HD...
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looks great. keep up the good work!! Post your themes if you can
Iphone WAD2 Theme
working on this one. This is just the front page and th elocked screen. Coming along nicely though
mallmanz carbon fiber WAD2
Not sure how to share this but if someone knows WAD2 well enough please post how we can extract and share these. Enjoy
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12524
Does this help?
Your theme looks good. There does seem to be a concerted amount of effort required to manipulate the themes that are around there.
I will have a try with yours....
Regards

[DISCUSSION] Can we live without Manila/TouchFlo?

I've been toying with the idea of changing to a WM6.5 based ROM, either Miri's or Davideuck's, but I'm so happy with Dutty's Xtreme ROMs that it's going to be a wrench if I do. I love the functionality of TF3D but find it annoying that you have to have a 3rd party UI running on top of Windows just to get a reasonable-looking and easy-to-navigate interface.
The thing that bugs me is the whole Titanium vs Manila thing. Personally, I can't see the point in having both TF3D and the Titanium home screen installed on the phone at the same time.
The Titanium home screen is simple and elegant but links to standard naff-looking WinMo apps (calendar, photos) whilst TF3D has eye-candy aplenty and quite usable and functional manila apps built-in like the calendar, weather and contacts browser (especially in the newest, prettier versions). I'm aware that we can run certain HTC apps within Titanium (Calculator/Album/Camera/etc), but the experience then feels disjointed and not cohesive at all.
So my question (and point for discussion) is this: Can we ever envisage a time when HTC's (or whomever's) bolt-on UIs are not required? Will MS ever produce a UI that is pretty and easy to navigate? Or will we always have to rely on 3rd party apps just to make our phones usable without the need for a stylus?
I quite like the new titanium, don't miss manila at all. Using Miri's 7.2 standard.
I think it will be WM7 that should/will get rid of the stylus once and for all.
The new start menu is more aesthetically appealing, but i find it less functional than the new start menu in manila, my issues w/ the new start menu in manila, is that noone has made a background for all cabs for this version yet, and htc should really have included this by default, seems kind of dumb to me to have only wallpaper support for the home tab.
I've found that even though its monochromatic, i prefer tf3d v2 and its new notifications, context menu's and additional tabs on tf3d more than i prefer what MS has done w/ wm 6.5.
What i like about wm 6.5 is that it gives the visual impression that you have more screen real estate due to the transparent top & bottom bars, but sadly that's only on the start bar & today screens. I also like the new lock screen, and the icons throughout the system, smoother, better antialiasing.
I also miss the ability to select multiple files in file explorer, but i find that functionality has been gone for a while, once the kinetic scrolling was introduced, the ability to block select multiple files was lost. I know that other 3rd party file managers have the functionality built in, but you lose the visual cohesivehness with the operating system.
even though they take up the whole screen and are again monochromatic, i don't know why but i prefer the htc context menus to the wm 6.5 one's, i'm not sure if its the font type or size which could be part of it, but i think the wm 6.5 context menus looks less visually cohesive, even though it shares the theme of the OS.
I honestly am glad that HTC put out the tf3d v2, i wasn't particularly impressed by v1, and took it off the device as soon as i got it, resigned to have to deal w/ wm's ugliness, and millions of menu's, but i think v2 is a noble effort, they've certainly made me enjoy my Touch HD more. a
whole lot more.
Also prefer the HTC calculator, and HTC dialer to the stock MS one's. I'm just over the moon w/ tf3d v2, and i'm also running Miri's rom.
DRTigerlilly said:
The new start menu is more aesthetically appealing, but i find it less functional than the new start menu in manila, my issues w/ the new start menu in manila, is that noone has made a background for all cabs for this version yet, and htc should really have included this by default, seems kind of dumb to me to have only wallpaper support for the home tab. ...
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There is background for all tabs available. mun_rus works great for me and there is another cab available to have both the old start menu and programs tab.
Quite so, but the BG for all tabs doesn't extend to the new Start Menu.
Ive been using Onkolos light WM 6.5 since friday and love it. I havnt used Manila as I like the new Titanium but I have installed Yota contacts and dialer as I dont like the windows contacts and the dialer is faster.
Downside is they dont work in landscape mode but Im using changescreen at the moment to experiment getting windows to rotate but not dialer & contacts. I would prefer to use flip it but didnt know what to enter for windows rotation.
I prefer touch flo and the way htc have tried to hide the boring style of the windows interface. I love all the new htc menus, skins, finger friendly apps etc.
I tried 6.5 but after a while reverted back to manilla because in 6.5 it was still the old interface below. Only the home page and menus had changed. I also tried 6.5 with some htc updated replacement skins and apps but did not like the mix of two styles and preferred to have a consistant theme throughout.
Am using the new topaz manilla 2 - davideuck v5 and am very happy with it and sticking with it. Manilla all the way...
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Quite so, but the BG for all tabs doesn't extend to the new Start Menu.
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what you do is that you set the background wallpaper for the "today" screen as the same background wallpaper for your tabs, and it will be the same. An extra step, I know, but this also extends to your WM6.5 lock screen as well.
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what you do is that you set the background wallpaper for the "today" screen as the same background wallpaper for your tabs, and it will be the same. An extra step, I know, but this also extends to your WM6.5 lock screen as well.
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Major_Sarcasm & myself are referring to the new htc start menu in wm 6.1 not wm 6.5
Having tried various flavors of it, I don't give a bean about Titanium (MS in general); I find it cumbersome. TouchFlo to me is simple and efficent enough. Now, if there is a Zune phone (with at least 120 gb), that will be the day.
aabye said:
Having tried various flavors of it, I don't give a bean about Titanium (MS in general); I find it cumbersome. TouchFlo to me is simple and efficent enough. Now, if there is a Zune phone (with at least 120 gb), that will be the day.
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manila unfortunately comes with a price.....major hi-jack of memory.
no a problem for me,remember we had pda's before manilla ...
Hi, I have bought pocketshield and found it doesn't work in all applications as manila is set as part of my start process. To make all apps work with pocketshield, am I safe removing manila - sorry to be dim but what is it giving me that touchflo doesn't..?
YES, PointUI
I have to say I'm in the Manila camp. Especially the latest versions of Manila from custom ROMs.
It's good looking, and functional.
And with each new version it goes deeper and deeper into hiding the ugly WinMo interface, which is a big plus for me. Also, I have to say that Manila has been surprisingly solid when it comes to speed and stability, especially for someone like me who's constantly digging around the _manila files and playing with them
The biggest minus for me personally is that HTC didn't take in account that people may want to change the colors and graphics, so visual customization is major PITA.
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manila unfortunately comes with a price.....major hi-jack of memory.
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I have no more than 20-30% free memory, and my device is very fast and stable. Memory is there to be used, why else did you pay for it?
vangrieg said:
I have no more than 20-30% free memory, and my device is very fast and stable. Memory is there to be used, why else did you pay for it?
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I couldn't agree more. I don't see a point in saving up free memory. As long as I can run 2-3 large applications simultaneously and still be able to answer a call or read an SMS, I'm perfectly happy with my device.
Zepiii said:
YES, PointUI
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Exactly. It's amazing what it can do
I'm the biggest fan of it
HastaSSSS
im not a fan of the titanium in 6.5 , i like manila better, but i like pointUI even better as the same for ms3 wich i use the most
I rather quite like touchflow as it give you all of the main features of a phone such as the touch HD without the need to run different apps (ie can view newest text messages without running the ms messaging app).
as for if MS will ever make a really nice UI, i think by winmo 7, MS will have to hav made a new UI (because of pressure from iphone OS) and then, as a major release, all the regular apps (windows media player, album etc) will also get a facelift, with the former already having been confirmed for a new release.
thats what i think anyway...

[THEME] Sence le Revolution v2 is out!!

Check out the new Sense UI for SPB MS3 done by the great folks at Mobile Custom:
http://www.mobilecustom.fr/forum/index.php/topic,2398.0.html
There are quite a bit of new widgets..
The theme rocks!!
How to install this?
it's great
it's looks very beautiful, but the linked wesite is in French and i don't know how to download and install the theme. Anybody can post it and give some instruction?thanks a lot~~
delight_11 said:
it's looks very beautiful, but the linked wesite is in French and i don't know how to download and install the theme. Anybody can post it and give some instruction?thanks a lot~~
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This skin is only usable in portrait.
Resolution support: VGA, WVGA, QVGA, WQVGA
the 240 * 240 is not supported but little walk
New:
- 7 new analog clock
- 5 new digital clock
- 6 new Battery
- 3 calendar widget calendar
- 1 widget Alarm
- 1 alarm widget background
- 1 widget media player
- 2 bottomless date widget
- 2 bottom widget application
2 Weather widget
) - 1 false Weather widget on page 7 (not removable)
- Page 7 lifestyle with the opportunity to change the animated transition between the page
- Plus all the widgets of the V1
Installation:
- To prevent any display problem and the problem of a facility subject to later ask you to completely uninstall SPB Mobile Shell 3 and reinstall
- Install Mortscript 4.2
Installing the Message2Reg.cab
- Install the cab file for your resolution.
And restart your mobile
: Uninstall:
. After uninstalling the theme, you need to reinstall spb Mobile Shell 3.
Note:
If the change in the substance of the homepage does not work, delete the file in the folder Background.bmp mobile shell with Total Commander or Resco Explorer
You can also change the background by replacing the file Background.bmp by a BMP file save in 16 bit R5V6B5 of the size of your screen that you rename background.dat
. - After installation does not restore a configuration file, it can have bugs.
lol
i have it now on my touch hd
it's verry cool.. looks nice
thnks mahn
Great theme and I have it, too, but if you never tried it note that you loose the carousel with this theme - just for the record. And some of the widgets have French titles.
delight_11 said:
it's looks very beautiful, but the linked wesite is in French and i don't know how to download and install the theme. Anybody can post it and give some instruction?thanks a lot~~
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I used google toolbar translate. You have to register with the website and then you can download.
As for the fact that it removes the carosel, it's well worth it.
I recommend it warmly.
RustyJoe said:
Check out the new Sense UI for SPB MS3 done by the great folks at Mobile Custom:
http://www.mobilecustom.fr/forum/index.php/topic,2398.0.html
There are quite a bit of new widgets..
The theme rocks!!
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Oddly enough it looks similar to the new Leo build for wm6.5 manila 2.6
Hi, I'm using this theme for the first time and I'm having problems with opening sms messages. I get signs for recieving the texts but when I go into the messages page I can't open them at all.
Does anyone have any ideas what I can do to recify this,
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I really want to use this theme but still not work after installing everything..
How to remove some pages/screens, Dont need all 7?
I have a question regarding the number of screens, Can i change it? I dont need that menu menues, and over half of them are left empty. Can I remove the empty ones?
I also miss favorite contacts buttun/window, How can i get that?
Thaks alot for any tips!
Favourite contacts buttos is still present: Add Widget -> Diver Sence -> ContactsFav.
And AFAIK there is no possibility to change number of screens...
i dont get any word at this site.
Could anyone upload it to rapidshare and post here link?
btw there is english support for this?
My PC died
Hey everyone,
My PC died and I wanna download this via mobile...
But Mobilecustom doesnt work right with mobile downloads...
I asked the maker and he said that i could see if someone else could upload it to their 4Shared or megaupload or something and grab it from them, it would be okay.
It is not okay to post a download, but someone could email me link...so the mass public wouldnt get it...
please PM me if u can help!
For those having problems installing it, make sure that:
1) You are using SPB Mobile Shell 3.x.x
2) You have installed the Message2Reg.cab so that you can use the SMS widget
3) All else fails, reinstall SPB MS3
Personally, I think this theme is fantastic, although I would like to somehow link every page back to the home page with a button somehow...since you sometimes have to swipe three or four times before you get back to the home page.
Other complaints are:
1) No carousel...i miss the eye-candy =P
2) Some widgets are in french, although that's easy to live with and also makes you seem more sophisticated to your friends
3) You cannot change the Professional page...it is now a redundant page that only shows the time and battery meter - I would prefer to have my agenda or calendar there
4) You cannot use the widgets unless you use the full theme...unless there is some "widget capture" program that I have missed
Otherwise, it's a fantastic theme! Definitely worth it and it is good for novelty if nothing else. Somebody actually asked me if I thought that the Android OS was good!...until I told him it was WinMo and he was like " no way!"
Any idea of how to change the launcher button to fav-contacts?
How do i change the "launcher" button to a contacts button? Saw a screenshot in this forum on page 17 that someone had done it.
Dont se the point of having a big button for luncher menu on every screen?
I cant seem to make it fullscreen.. i would like to have the ugly top bar gone?? is this possible?
I could definitely do with a list of widgets, and images to go with them. There's about 20 clocks, and dozens of message widgets. It's really hard to customise it not knowing what's what.
[hint hint, if anyone wants to do this they would be being very useful]
pretty nice theme thnks
Sence Revolution
Great theme running on my Raphael alongside Blue Eye TF3D theme. Just need to change background of Sence: I know how to delete background file etc, but do not understand 16bit bmp. files?? Photoshop offers me a choice of 8bit or 32 bit. Can anyone help me choose the correct res ?

[REQUEST] A real Startmenu replacement ( WM startmenu is RAM hungry!!!)

Hi everyone, I am a cooker ( doing great things, but mainly a noob one compared to some masters out there ) .
Cooking on the Omnia I900 & Acer S200 ( french rom only), these devices have low memory.
For example the acer S200 only has 256mb of ram, but mainly the same hardware than the powerful HD2(except ram....:-( )
Arto ( great cooker of the Acer S200 scene ) has found that removing the start menu completely gains 15mb Ram on our devices ( by fooling the system with empty .cpr grid, icons caches aren't generated.)
This can help people make really light roms!!! The main problem now is the we don't have here a real startmenu alternative, a eye candy one than keep the spirit of our devices... Quickmenu is functionnal but not too beautiful.
After many searches over xda, the only thing I found was Quickmenu and the sense Startmenu replacement ( I modded the kenia1234 startmenu replacement to give it 5 columns, here is the work : 5 columns start sense2.5 menu replacement )
I don't know why developper aren't interested in making a real , fast and beautiful startmenu replacement ( with full fonctionnality, at least control panel wikth .cpl files abilty, and even more folder architecture, fullscreen, lightweight ),
but here is the request or that, If others than me are interested, please reply and tell your needs, to help developpers...
Something like Panoramic Launchpad would be great!
Last week I started creating a startmenu alternative. It's very underdeveloped, and I have no idea when it's finished, but to give you an idea I attached two screenshots.
It still lacks a couple of features (if someone can point me in the right direction, please do so ):
- no control panel items yet
- no icon transparency (I got that working, but it was horribly slow)
- no background (because of the lack of transparency)
- no hook on the hardware windows key (like quickmenu)
- no hook on the software start button (like ameba does on winmo 6.5.x)
- if there's no png file attached to a link, no icon is displayed
But the other basics are working:
- starting programs by clicking (yes I know, very basic )
- flipping pages by swyping your finger (left->right, right->left, up->down, down->up)
- opening folders, and going back up one level with the left soft button (just like the usual start menu)
I actually started this because I'm not a fan of the hexagon grid styled start menu, not because of memory issues. I did take a look at the current memory usage of my start menu, and currently it is 1.41MB. But that will grow with more icons and transparency I guess.
If you're interested I can continue developing this startmenu.
The most important thing to me is ram usage, the lower it is the best it is,
the png file limitation to display an icon should be reconsidered, the ability to display native icon is much more important, or, much easily to program, you can make your app request the "HKLM\Security\StartInfo\Start\myprog.lnk" key to read the icon you should display, if nothing is entered, lets just start the native icon.
This is important to make your startmenu replacement user friendly. nobody likes assigning manually an icon to an app, having the ability to do it is good, but the most important for the users is that your program automaticaly displays the native icon like the start menu does.
To use cpl, you just have to use a ctlpnl.exe command line, like this :
ctpnl.exe mycpl.cpl
if cpl has multiple tab, ctpnl.exe mycpl.cpl,1 ( where the number is the tab you want to be open)
for cpl files, I thinks its the big part of the job :-(
What I meant with:
- if there's no png file attached to a link, no icon is displayed
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My program uses the icons set in HKLM\Security\Shell\StartInfo\Start, but if it's an older program, there might not be a high resolution icon, and in that case I won't display any icon. That's something I will fix ofcourse.
I'll have a look at the cpl files, and I guess google will help me there as well.
Also looking for a way to show my startmenu instead of the winmo startmenu, but no luck so far. If anybody knows how to catch when the winmo startmenu is activated in c#, please let me know.
Hi guys
Have you ever heard of iPhoneToday http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=633618 ? It's so light and configurable
XTask has a good looking, light start menu replacement.
If you leave out the start_icon.png's, then the native icons are used. The 6.5 start menu also slows down boot time dramatically. Just delete all the shortcuts, soft reset, and check the millisecondtoidlethread in hkcu/performance. Boot time may be 20-30 seconds faster.
vinvv said:
Last week I started creating a startmenu alternative. It's very underdeveloped, and I have no idea when it's finished, but to give you an idea I attached two screenshots.
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If you're interested I can continue developing this startmenu.
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This certainly looks very interesting! Please continue, I also hate the honeycomb (as many people around).
I like this
vinvv said:
What I meant with:
My program uses the icons set in HKLM\Security\Shell\StartInfo\Start, but if it's an older program, there might not be a high resolution icon, and in that case I won't display any icon. That's something I will fix ofcourse.
I'll have a look at the cpl files, and I guess google will help me there as well.
Also looking for a way to show my startmenu instead of the winmo startmenu, but no luck so far. If anybody knows how to catch when the winmo startmenu is activated in c#, please let me know.
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Hi m8
I also hate the startmenu but this is cose it eats arround 30mb of ram...
There is a way to disable the default startmenu ....
Look this post its working fine on Blackstone NRG roms.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7911317&postcount=16270
I just dont like the replacement menu or the quickmenu
Your app can be assigned to startmenu button with ameba
If can i help with your project on this just let know
Also keep in mind that many shells (Throttle Launcher, Mobile Shell etc) read the data to load program shortcuts from the start menu, so that the replacement has to take care of that too.
what do you think about wisbar 4? would this be an alternative to quick menu? i was using this prog. a year ago and i was totaly impressed. now i use it again together with the new energy rom from august 28. after the replacement from the start menu i have real nice and fast blackstone

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