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New Interface.....ideas?

Hi,
I've developed quite a few themes in Wisbar and WAD, including the most authentic iphone skin and the vista theme modified from a theme posted here.
I'm looking for a new challenge and would love to have some ideas for a unique interface. Any ideas are most welcome.
if someone has a drawing or sketch to share, please do so that I can make and share with everyone!
Cheers

go for Manila
go for manila - TouchFlo2

My idea is WM7 Theme (not sure fake or not but its nice )

thanx for the suggestions
how about something new? we have a wonderful cube by Slither that has the potential of being moded into manila.
WM7 is for gesture based devices so that's out of the question till we have gesture based hardware!

How about retaining the same look and feel of our current WM devices but allow flick and scroll/gestures and transitions?
Like scrolling today items vertically or horizontally using flick and scroll. And when I click messaging for example, it will have a nice transition before it shows up. In other words, it's like rewriting the WM shell.. hehe.. I'm just dreaming..

We dont need any hardware... wm7 uses the camera to recognize the gestures... wm7 will work for any wm6 device...

wm7 ui is very cool to see

+1 WM7 kicks ass ^^

howmany people go back to there original themes after downloading another one??

i dnt know if its only me but for some reason i always revert back to my original windows mobile today screen after i have tried some new ones. like they say the original is always the best.
anyone else like me out there?

Not yet, but I must confess I've been using my Magician and Hermes just for three years now. So maybe the moment I switch back to the origanal T-Mobile theme will come anywhere in the future LOL.
Now using a customised Ultimate Launch setup from Rumball. And have used many themes before like Throttle Launcher, Wisbar Advance, HTC Home.
It's all about being happy, isn't?
Just my 2C.

well, everytime installing a theme or add-on or plugin, i always return the standard HTC Home...for me it is the best, because i get attuned on the standard screen...

dortyboy said:
i dnt know if its only me but for some reason i always revert back to my original windows mobile today screen after i have tried some new ones. like they say the original is always the best.
anyone else like me out there?
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I understand you very well and i think what may be behind that backward to original theme.
Ofcourse there are many reasons like:
Themes design in a way that tiered our eyes
Themes with customization limits
Themes that eat a lot of memory
Themes that crash our pda's
etc etc etc
In my case i think i reach to a Software that a use for sometime now and and don't think i will change or reverse to another one.
I use the last WAD2 software and none of the reasons that i mention happens with this software.
I love it

I really don't under the attraction of some of the themes that many people use - 97 tiny icons on the front page.
I use a combination of
* photo contacts
* favourites
* calender
* Inbox
in the day and switch over to "samsung today" in the evening when I am out and about or in the pub.

I'm using Spb Mobile Shell, and some how I always come back the the 1.2.1 default theme. A lot of fancy themes out there. But the original one is crisp, clean and functional. Just the way I like it.

and i thought it was just me that felt this way...

Instaled SPB Mobile shell - download greatball's diamond theme
Uninstalll
Install
Uninstall
Install and have now still 2 months
Diamond original theme
- change
- back to my old
-diamond theme
- old with black top (like diamond)
- old with normal top, bottom black like original
- old with top like diamond, start menu like diamond....
- old like this up + green ehm.... choose?
- original diamond with my wallpaper :-D
This my history

I've used rlToday for a long time with a simple analog clock with sms email and missed call indicators only. I love using it because it is lite on memory and I can't accidently click anything on the screen. But as of late I was using HTC Home for the weather and music portion. As for the really nice themes that people make they only last at best a week with me then I go back. I guess they are just too much for my simple mind lol.

I have not went back to the original theme once changed. But, I change themes to get a newer & different home screen.

I change my device almost every week, at least ever since I joined xda! Every week there is a new theme, or a new launcher. Right now I am just waiting for WAD2 to be complete, and I'll probably create my theme, then stick with it for hopefully a while. I think I spend more time changing items on my Touch, then I do actually use it !
Not to mention, I have had a new ROM almost every few days since I starting building.

I've tried a lot of plugins. I started with the HTC Home Customizer. WAD and WA2 followed. Tried a lot of things with Ultimatelaunch and i'm using Throttlelauncher right now.
All previous configurations evolved to the theme i use right now. I download a lot of themes for different plugins and get new ideas every time to update my current theme.
I'm definitely not going back to the original HTC plugin. It's good, but there are a lot of things i don't use or are better of mapped under a hardware button. Throttlelauncher with plugins, iContact, Diamond Dialer and Diamond Comm Manager is my favorite combination at the moment.
That's for now... don't know what's happening tomorrow.

i switch themes and apps if not daily then every other day..
im addicted!

I'm the same way.

TheChampJT said:
I spend more time changing items on my Touch, then I do actually use it !
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heheeh, it is amazing how look a like we are !!!!

The "out of the box" theme is all but useless to me, a Touch owner. The cube serves no useful function other than the quick dialer, as none of the other programs it launches are useful.
I tried a lot of themes and plugins over the months, but none of them were really useful to me. In the end I created this one, which is a combination of rlToday and UltimateLaunch. Having spent the time to create my own icons, figure out how to make buttons that adjust flight mode and mute/vibrate, I can't imagine I'll ever use another theme than this.
With a little bit of patience, I've managed to create a theme that makes the Start menu and the stylus completely irrelevant, and using my device much more efficient. I still tweak it from time to time, and I'm still hopeful of learning how to make graphics change as battery charge changes, but that's not something that affects productivity, so it's not a priority for me.
I've found "theme nirvana"
AJ

Everytime I install those themes, I go back to the stock themes in less than a week

[Suggestions] - One Today plugin to rule them all....

So I tried to stick with TF3D for as long as I can but I dislike a) how slow it is b) the number of steps required to achieve simple things, thus hindering productivity a lot.
I came from the HTC Touch (elfin) and I loved the regular HTC Home with the big clock, and the 5ish tabs. It allowed you to see the time, play music, see the whether, overview of messages, change backlight settings, rotate screen from that small widget. As well it still had room below to add your own today plugins! Not only that, it looked relatively nice. Simple but effective and elegant.
TF3D I feel is just all "prettiness" and I just really dislike the effort it takes to do simple things.
So now I'm on a man hunt to find the perfect today plugin for my uses. I tried installing the HTC Home plugin but the widget looks all distorted on my HD. So I was wondering if someone could make suggestions on some good today plugins that I may find as good as the HTC home one on my elfin.
I've taken a look at the likes of SPB mobile and WAD but I'm not really in the idea of an entire today replacement, more like useful plugins for the today screen... but by all means if you have a great suggestion for a today replacement I'm open to all and to testing them out and seeing which is most suitable for me.
Thanks a lot!

Ultimatelaunch. Takes some time to configure, but then I think it's perfect.
You can make it look like HTC home, for example. Or you can just implement a bunch of different today plugins like weather, calendar, RSS etc. together with program icons on several pages.

You can do about anything with HomeScreen++ (Battery Status)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=350510

Hmm I'll take a look at Ultimate Launch seems promising... I have Homescreen++ installed but never knew it had that much function... I'll have to look more into that then. Keep the suggestions coming! Thanks

before tf2d came out for the polaris i used to have, i used a custom batterystatus screen. i tried ultimatelaunch, but just as soon as i would get it all configured, it would start causing problems, and i finally had to remove it i tried a couple of different versions, but they all came crashing down for me if i wanted anything very complex... i hope it works better for you...
you might also try spb mobile shell 2...

SPB Mobile Shell is a very polished retail UI. The only problem with it is that WVGA is fairly new so people haven't developed any/many nice themes for it yet.
Two UIs that I'm keeping my eyes on, that are still in development but can be used to some degree, are Today Life (post here) and FEWidgets (post here). If those two were combined I bet there could be some amazing themes for our Touch HDs. All they need is for more of our awesome developers to look away from TF3D/Manila/Etc for a minute and check them out.
They use XML and Flash, so just imagine having custom backgrounds and custom shaped buttons that'll load anything you want. So someone could take, for instance, a picture of an airplane cockpit and make buttons that look like the switches or dials. Or a bookshelf where you click on the books. Or... Ideally you would want the buttons to be shaped and colored to blend in perfectly with the background. Just imagine what could be done!

I used to use SBSH PocketBreeze as the main today screen and add vertical Tabs.
But, I've been seduced by TF3D and its shallow prettiness !!
However, I do have SecondToday running very well and up pops SBSH with its loads of Tabs.

[QUESTION] Skinning whole windows mobile?

Is it possible to skin the total Windows Mobile 6.5? Not only the today screen and the usual stuff. I mean really everything, like the buttons, menu layouts, font style, colors etc. etc.
I really like the new 6.5, but i don't fancy the standard e-mail and sms apps. They are not optimized for touch use and the interface is quite ugly. I have no experience in writing apps or building roms. I'm a graphics artist and a webdeveloper. I'm an experienced php scripter. So a little layout tweaking should be do-able for me i guess...
Is it possible for me to skin whole WM? If yes; how?

WM 6.5: Customizing Buttons?

hi!
i just saw a few (cooked) roms with winmobile 6.5 which seem to have customized (standard)buttons in the applications - not the normal rectangular, flat and grey ones, but e.g. 3d glass style. i mean those typical winmobile buttons, for example the ones when you go into settings->today ("beam", "delete"...)
how is this possible? how can i customize buttons?
thanks for your answers, hints and tips