Home screens for the Dash ?

[neurocutie]

Is there a decent source for some alternate home screens for the Dash ?

I know there are quite a few home screens for the Q out there, but I find that although many look very nice, they often don't work very well with the Dash. Specifically, they generally do not support a home screen option to jump/click to the Comm Mgr the way that the Tmobile Dash default does. Also many do not properly handled missed calls. And the color palettes end up being suboptimal for the Dash -- e.g. they can render the setup pages for Outlook almost useless.

So how about some Dash-specific home screens ? Otherwise I gather that I can hack my own by snarfing some of the Q images or other images from where-ever and piece together more Dash-appropriate XML from the default Dash home screen.

[chaznet]

Try searching the forum, this has been extensively covered.

[mcdata]

Here is a link where I found some great home screens.

http://www.kooldezine.com/Q.htm

[neurocutie]

Thanks for your replies. Indeed I did do a search (even before posting :-) ) but didn't really find what I wanted (perhaps I don't really understand). Mostly what I found were tutorials on how to hack screen files and otherwise pointers to sites with mostly Q screens, which all had the problems mentioned in my OP (i.e. various incompatibilities).

So... I hacked my own... I started with the included Dash default screen, T-MobileDefaultBlue because its the only one I knew that worked the way it was supposed to. I made minor adjustments with two main objectives: 1) I wanted to be able to see the time easily... not some teenie little font, 2) I wanted it to be compatible with most any background image (the default screen doesn't work well with background images at all). I threw in an indicator of voicemails. Here it is, if anyone is interested. It uses a background image "dashhome.jpg" so anyone can easily change the background image. I also made 2 other versions that use a black font and a blue font, in case those colors would be better with certain background images (snowy or sunny scenes). Hope this helps someone:

dashhome.home.xml (http://dnn.tsolab.org/webpix/dashhome.home.xml)
dashhome.jpg (http://dnn.tsolab.org/webpix/dashhome.jpg)
dashblack.home.xml (http://dnn.tsolab.org/webpix/dashblack.home.xml)
dashblue.home.xml (http://dnn.tsolab.org/webpix/dashblue.home.xml)

One more, the version below makes the bottom button bar and other trimmings gray, which may be more neutral...

dashgray.home.xml (http://dnn.tsolab.org/webpix/dashgray.home.xml)

BTW, the default dashhome.jpg image, if anyone recognizes it, is of a "vortex" in Sedona, AZ...

[Go90go]

You could go to MoDaCo. They've got some nice ones there, but you have to register.

~Cheers~

P.S. The way I have mine, people think it's the iPhone's cousin, ;).

[chaznet]

You've been busy :) I think if you generalized your searches a bit (if you haven't already) you might find more if you look for 'landscape homescreen' than device specific. A good one to start with: http://www.kolumbus.fi/anders.ruohio/sp.html

With a modest purchase price, SBSH Facade opens a whole other class of homescreens: http://www.sbsh.net/forums/index.php?showforum=57

One that I did a while back for my Dash (for use with Facade), along the lines of 'less is more': http://www.sbsh.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=14372

Thanks for your replies. Indeed I did do a search (even before posting :-) ) but didn't really find what I wanted (perhaps I don't really understand). Mostly what I found were tutorials on how to hack screen files and otherwise pointers to sites with mostly Q screens, which all had the problems mentioned in my OP (i.e. various incompatibilities)....

[neurocutie]

One that I did a while back for my Dash (for use with Facade), along the lines of 'less is more'...One thing I suppose I should make clearer... nearly all of these other home screens do not provide for WiFi status/CommMgr access (the Q screens for obvious reasons since it doesn't have WiFi). But that's one thing that I absolutely need -- I use WiFi on the Dash more than GSM. I guess that's why I had to hack my own...

Yes I know about Facade... perhaps later... I do like the "less is more" aesthetic...