SHOW YOUR SCREENS!One Of the Best Parts about the modern(Or Metro)User interface of windows 8 is its amazing personalization Options.This thread is made to just generally compare screens.Post all the three screens.Start Screen,Lock Screen and the Desktop.
Start Screen:
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Tip: open Start, search for "Desktop icon", select the first result under Settings. It lets you put the "real" Computer icon on the desktop, rather than a shortcut.
mrappbrain said:
...One Of the Best Parts about the modern(Or Metro)User interface of windows 8 is its amazing personalization Options...
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I'm sorry, I don't mean to crap the thread, but where did you find those "amazing personalization Options"? To me, Metro UI is very limiting in terms of personalization. All that it is a background with showcase of apps that you have installed. You can do more even with very strict iOS (after jailbreak), and it is nowhere as flexible as Android or even a standard window 7 desktop (you can still customize win8 that way too and it will be much better showcase). Without any hacks for Metro UI personalization, this thread will be very boring.
And to prove the point, here are couple of examples of win7 desktops (can do the same in win8, not metro) - neither one of those is mine (just found using google):
Just wanted to show you what you're missing and hoping that hacks will come soon to metro UI
Really missing metro-folders, bigger and more informative tiles, tile shape changing etc...
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Hi all... Here's a free program which is a Today replacement, it's still in early beta, but it seems promising. I don't know if it has been posted in this forum, so i'm sorry about it if so.
I've tested it on my Trinity, it runs quite fast. it's still too early to be used regularly, but it's a nice concept.
SimpleOS
Overview: Tired of clicking back and forward to switch application? Simple OS, brings well known multiplatform OS (Mac,Windows,Linux) Desktop interface for easy switching and management of your PocketPC applications. Supports full VGA resolution (640x480) as well as old PDA's (320x240)
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extract it , copy bin folder to your PPC and install it from there click on Simple Os ,and then open the simple Os again.
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More info: http://www.iroot.ca/simpleos
Download: http://rapidshare.com/files/35446503/SimpleOS_June1_2007.rar
woooooow!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's very coool where do you find it????
Is it a total replacement or does it run on top of the normal ui so you can toggle between the normal today screen and this app?
Nice idea, doesnt work very well, heavy on processor & lots of features not supported yet, like sound mute on/off & wifi
RacerII said:
Is it a total replacement or does it run on top of the normal ui so you can toggle between the normal today screen and this app?
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you can toggle between the normal today screen and this one. try it, nothing is gonna happen
I already said it's early beta, many things still don't work, but it's still a nice concept
I'm refering to these great widgets on your today:
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See it here in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMEhT76wVzc
(he only starts showing it after second 34)
It has been asked here and there over this forum, but this is the main area, so its better to ask here...
Any way we can get the rom to extract a cab or something? I dont think its hardware dependent, so it should work on our machines...
Anybody...?
PS: I think the iphone came and slap M$ and all the ppc makers right on the face with its 200mhz machines since 2003 and 64/128 low ram micro upgrades...
Now these great plugins start showing up here and there and machines suddently have 4 gb of rom, finally some long-awaited REAL upgrades!
I wonder if the rotation animations can be ported i mean even though you may not have a accelerometer it my still hide the usual lag.
Actually I was refering only to the gadgets...
The diamond album was easily re-used by other htc's, but you couldnt turn the images because you had no accelarometer, it worked fine without anyway...
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I wonder if the rotation animations can be ported i mean even though you may not have a accelerometer it my still hide the usual lag.
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Agreed! The way the screen changes orientation is slick.
its cool..oh man why nowadays peoples brain are getting smarter..always out with something new
I did it just for fun...I dont think it will ever be usable, as its too slow.
Anyway, here it is...
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You can test it online here: http://megaswf.com/view/4fb8637b26b3e854de91c76220908736.html
The links are hardcoded and only allowed the first 6 icons to work (the others are duplicates only).
It works very well on the PC, sadly the cpu and video driver of the current devices (hint -> HTC ) arent nearly as good.
I got most of the code from here: http://www.gamemeal.com/bimg/20070303.html
...and just resized, optimized for QVGA and added the "click on the icons" routine.
I'm posting the source-code because I see that I wont be able to do much more, and anyone else may want to play around with it.
I exported it on Flash lite 3.1 to speed it up a little bit, but not enough I'm afraid.
The cab needs to be installed from the PPC (for some reason I cant seem to be able to use it on winCEsetup or WinCEcabManager).
Enjoy.
Looks great and runs smoother than the Microsoft honeycomb start menu.
btw, not sure if it need flash lite 3.1 pre-installed:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3331091
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awesome effort man..
great effort man!
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Looks great and runs smoother than the Microsoft honeycomb start menu.
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I would prefer M$ HoneyComb
I prefer QUICKMENU , it was just a way to bring the wm6.5 star menu to those that dont have it...
BubbleComb
Variation of HoneyComb...
This is my BubbleComb.
Download here in Deposit Files
Hi
I am sure that I am not alone when I look at the new WM6.5 Start Menu and it just looks plain bloody ugly where it was once honeycomb and now all the icons are spaced oddly in rows of 3 icons then the next row below has only two and on and on..
Is it possible to go more down the line of having them all line up both horizontally and vertically.
See below mock up please.
Regards
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That would look nice. Also, how about being able to arrange alphabetically?
My thoughts exactly
Can't be that hard. But since i'm using Launchpad nowadays, i'm not gonna make it
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Can't be that hard. But since i'm using Launchpad nowadays, i'm not gonna make it
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Would be cool as above Launchpad & Launchmanager are good progs but an app to replicate WM6.1 menu with Start Menu hook and the ability to change background "and other tweaks" would be sweeeet
If you have any luck let me know! It seems that the honeycomb is forced. The only way I could get it half-decent was a single column (i.e. a list). For more details, look at:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=522755
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If you have any luck let me know! It seems that the honeycomb is forced. The only way I could get it half-decent was a single column (i.e. a list). For more details, look at:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=522755
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And with reStart you can tweak it still a bit more like changing folders, arrange icons etc
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=481379
Looks Good
Yep, another largely positive review
I didn't know it had an FM-radio??
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thanks for posting the link!
hmm not bad..
"Unlike the default Android home screens, the Samsung home screens always start from the leftmost side (like an iPhone), making you swipe through 6 screens just to get to an app or widget on the 7th page."
he can click on the circles to access the 7th page immediately, which is faster than having to "multi-touch" to get an overview of all screens and then selecting..
"The Samsung unlock screen is in our opinion more confusing than the default Android 2.1 unlock screen"
lol......... he can swipe it any direction he wants to access the phone.. how is that confusing..
"To post something on Facebook or Twitter, you have to use the confusingly-named and designed Write and Go app, which looks more like a notepad."
design looks fine and simple to me of write and go..
"There are almost no delays throughout the system (except when installing apps, as on other Android phones); programs open and close almost instantly,"
yay, phew.. many were complaining about slow and laggy browsing so that's good to hear.
nice battery life test and that's with 100% brightness which I will never use, so that's cool =D
strange that sony x10 performs so bad... I would not have expected that..
"At very, very few times - fewer than any other Android phone in the gigahertz speed class - did we notice slowdowns or jerky scrolling in the Android UI itself."
awesome