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clandestino_usr
14-01-2008, 12:06 PM
Hello everybody !

After numerous attempts to customize my HTC trinity for a thumb-based experience, I finally got onto some applications that really do the job :

- Tene's PocketCM for the contacts
- ArticCat's OTO for the calendar (works well so far, however I hope to see more of it soon)
- Paulya's Vista II dialer replacement
- A_C's S2U for the lock and S2V for the pics viewer
- HTC's PhonePad for the SIP and Mediaplayer for the music player
- SPB's Mobile Shell for the navigation and the menus.

What I'm missing is a launcher that would work as a today plugin, and that would support large icons in PNG format (thus, with alpha transparency). By "big" I mean "larger than the default 32x32 pixels that all launchers support" - 48 or 60 pixels beeing the size I'm after (something large enough for my fat thumbs :p ). I don't need tab support, since there are only a small number of apps I want to access from the today screen (typically 8-12).

Do you know if anything that'd meet my needs exists for WM5? Even for a small/reasonable fee (means, around 10-15$) ?

Thanks a million in advance !
Mr. Vi
14-01-2008, 01:30 PM
I think i used claunch to put a really big shortcut (64x64px) on my todayscreen ;)

Greetings, Vi
JamesAllen
14-01-2008, 02:35 PM
Search for the ThrottleLauncher thread here. No Today plugin yet but all indications are that it will be coming. Great launcher, you can size the rows the pictures are in to any size you wish. I am using 56picsels by 56picsels.
nothin
14-01-2008, 03:02 PM
pocketage - no size limit :P
clandestino_usr
14-01-2008, 04:23 PM
I tried to install PocketAge from the latest CAB I could find on this board, but something must have gone bad... My Trinity is now stuck as reboot :(

Everytime I soft-reset it, it got stuck then block at the following step :

http://users.skynet.be/bk342433/trinity1.png

Of course, none of the hard or soft buttons work and I can't dismiss this reminder. I tried to remove the corresponding event from outlook but I couldn't manage to sync the device. I noticed I can access the device filesystem. One strange thing, though, makes me thing that the system is not completely frozen : the clock on the reminder changes and shows the correct time.

Any idea how to recover my phone without having to hard-reset it ? Thanks !!!
joshrys
14-01-2008, 08:16 PM
I think i used claunch to put a really big shortcut (64x64px) on my todayscreen ;)

Greetings, Vi

yeah, claunch is a good one. it's a today plugin and you can use custom icons. not sure if they are png though never tried it. it has way more options than you need but you can configure it how you want....
APBilbo
21-01-2008, 11:04 AM
Search for the ThrottleLauncher thread here. No Today plugin yet but all indications are that it will be coming. Great launcher, you can size the rows the pictures are in to any size you wish. I am using 56picsels by 56picsels.

Here you have a demo video of ThrottleLauncher 0.6 (still under development but will be available this week probably)

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=O-_ECwlsKSk

Hope it matches what you are looking for....