we need a taskmanager that can be accesible without filling whole screen..
i used pocket plus in winmo 6....
so heres mi concept...
concept 1:swipe the bottom bar and task icons swipes in to it and replaces the soft buttons but not window button...drag icon out of the bottom bar and throw it to stop task..to kill shake the icon..
concept 2...if above is too difficult ......wen the sys icons on taskbar are tapped the usual things come up <winmo notifier>...wen we tap the empty space instead of notifier task manager come which behaves just like the cocept one..it would also be graet if task icons can be displayed on taskbar....
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First, thank you all for foras like this, I find them educating and extremely inspiring
I have read a lot about removing the power and comm-manager icons in the tarybar, actually, I want to add some icons. Have had a hard time finding posts about this issue, so I wonder if anybody can give me some hints, eather by tweaking the registry, or special apps for this action ?
Bests, Tycho
Wisbar Advanced will allow you to add whatever tray icons you need
Vijay555 has an utility to add icons to tray. Also Battery Status today plugin lets you add the icons to tray. Also PHM Power Toys let you use tray launch.
I too use.. wisbar.. its a wonderful program and so useful to customize your today screen
How do I get this. All I want from this picture is the bottom toolbar to be black, Top to be the background with the 3D battery and reception. Thanks
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=389940
3rd post, 2nd and third pictures.
the bottom tool bar he has is from a program called smartToolkit (goole it or search here in the fourm)
2nd, the 3d stuff on top usually comes in the redone roms that ricky made.. there is a way to add it by placing the files in the windows folder i think. but not sure...if u installed one of rickys roms, then u just need to change ur home screen to "media top bar" theme.
hope this helps
thedoctor1 said:
the bottom tool bar he has is from a program called smartToolkit (goole it or search here in the fourm)
2nd, the 3d stuff on top usually comes in the redone roms that ricky made.. there is a way to add it by placing the files in the windows folder i think. but not sure...if u installed one of rickys roms, then u just need to change ur home screen to "media top bar" theme.
hope this helps
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Give these two things a try NRG Rinku will add the bar at the top and smartToolkit adds the bottom bar. As for the black aspect in the setting window go to system base hue and adjust it to anything you would like (if you hit the right soft key you can select grey scale).
http://www.mediafire.com/?jc2mnogsvy5
http://www.mediafire.com/?wmxy9meemiy
It says the layout you have selected cannot be loaded. please select a different layout using the homescreen item in settings, When i installed the nrg rinku. And where is system base hue?...And now that i have installed smartToolkit my wifi doesnt work. Anyone have AIM that could help me. I have a lot of questions : /
when i install the NRG Rinku.cab it doesn't change the top icon bar to the color version i've seen. do i need to edit something in the registry or something?
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when i install the NRG Rinku.cab it doesn't change the top icon bar to the color version i've seen. do i need to edit something in the registry or something?
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no editing.
Go into settings, homescreen and pick Sliding Panel NRG
Is there a way in WM6.1 sliding panels to have a different panel highlighted by default?
Right now it is setup to use the topmost panel as the clock panel by default, where it shows the expanded panel.
Is there a way to put the collapsed panel "message center" above that? This way the clock is still the highlighted panel, but the message center notifications (in collapsed form) sit on top?
Can I do this through the home.cpr or would I have to dig deeper?
Have a look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=397334
Nex tiem please use the search button
not to be disrespectful (considering I have found TONS of help here, thanks everyone!),
but I have searched. And I've read this thread. I don't find what I need.
This shows how to dock the main panel. WHich is nice, but it doesn't tell me how to make the second panel as the primary highlighted panel. When you put the phone in its default mode, it uses the top panel as the main panel.
I'd like to use the 2nd panel as the default, and have collapsed panels on top and on bottom of it. Much like the style (I think) of the WinMo 6.5 look. I don't mean simply re-ordering of the panels.
Is that possible with 6.1?
i get what your saying still have the clock as the default panel so when you hit the end key it still takes you back to the clock panel but just have the message center above it. so it looks something like this.
Aitrus said:
i get what your saying still have the clock as the default panel so when you hit the end key it still takes you back to the clock panel but just have the message center above it. so it looks something like this.
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Yes. Exactly.
Is that possible with WM6.1? Is it configurable through the cpr file?
honestly i don't know all i did was rearranged it with chome config to get a visual but that's not what you want hopefully someone can figure it out cause that would be cool.
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Yes. Exactly.
Is that possible with WM6.1? Is it configurable through the cpr file?
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just use the chome config to move the message center to be above the clock, save settings and you're done, that's what I did to move the titanium weather above my clock
on 6.1 what you move above the clock panel is now the new go to panel when you click the end key. i'd say bit the bullet and flash ookba's 6.5 roms at least that way you'll get the reaction from your phone that your wanting.
I guess its not possible on 6.1, then. I'm not on an HTC, I'm actually on a Samsung JACK. I don't know if there are 6.5 ROM's out for this phone. However, supposedly we'll get official 6.5 upgrade when it comes out. I'll just wait till then. I'll keep playing with 6.1 and seeing how far I can go with it before 6.5 hits.
I'm a wkTask user but lately I've upgraded to WM 6.5.3 and it's no longer an option.
I gave a chance to some other software but didn't find anything fast and usable enough (I have Leo, so no HW button adjustment unfortunately [long press takes too long…]).
Here's my idea for a new task manager:
I really like the manila slide-selector. In my opinion it’s one of the best UI concepts in WM world.
Let's make another slider
I thought of replacing (covering) the Windows button in the bottom left corner with a slide-chooser. First option would have to be the Start menu to maintain the functionality of a single press, but if I want to switch to another opened program I could always slide while pressing the button along the bottom of the screen. Some visual notification would be awesome of course: icons of running programs [windows?] to start with and maybe even some fullscreen preview like in manila.
I think that speed of this program should be the main target – slow task manager is useless. Also it should be configurable so that I could exclude from the list anything I want, maybe optional animations and previews?
Of course the slider would become visible only by touching the Windows icon so that other softkeys remain usable.
What do you think and is this possible to code?
My programming skills are not there yet, but I’m sure someone’s are
Tomus
a good taskmanager must be fast and available in all pages no matter which window you are on. so this idea is not very good.
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
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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