Suggesting New Ingredients for Cooking Tasty ROM's

[roomtek*8525]

Hi there i feel there's a need for a thread such as this where anyone can post and suggest any good applications which he/she feels should be part of a ROM.

1) My first suggestion would be an application call QuickMenu. i put a pic down there. It is a really cool windows xp-type start menu, so you dont need to go through all folders. it replaces the retro start menu Windows Mobile has.:):)

2) My second suggestion is this one called " T-Mobile Soft Key ". it provides the custumisation of the soft keys in the home menu.

[steelorange]

Hmmm... I think dotFred has something similar to your suggestion. I think he's still working on it.

http://www.dotfred.net/FdcStartMenu.htm

[MrDSL]

I would like to think I have fairly normal size hands and these type of menus are just too small for me to use with my thumb..

I dunno who you guys do it without hitting the wrong thing all the time.. nice apps though gonna have to check them out.

[larsuck]

I would like to think I have fairly normal size hands and these type of menus are just too small for me to use with my thumb..

I dunno who you guys do it without hitting the wrong thing all the time.. nice apps though gonna have to check them out.

It would look like ass, but you could put a separator between each menu. That would probably space them out enough.
Or you could use the scrollwheel.

My addition to this is WM5NewMenu (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=255580&highlight=newmenu). Super small, super light and totally useful. It is basically a customizable new menu ala WM2003. It has tons of options, but my favorite is the ability to set a new SMS/Call to a specific person. It beats the hell out of opening the Messaging app and searching through the contact list.

[roomtek*8525]

the point is to use your stylus not your fingers:o.
so the menu is appropriate

[roomtek*8525]

It would look like ass, but you could put a separator between each menu. That would probably space them out enough.
Or you could use the scrollwheel.

My addition to this is WM5NewMenu (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=255580&highlight=newmenu). Super small, super light and totally useful. It is basically a customizable new menu ala WM2003. It has tons of options, but my favorite is the ability to set a new SMS/Call to a specific person. It beats the hell out of opening the Messaging app and searching through the contact list.

This is really different from the one posted here. This one does not replace the windows start menu.

[Radimus]

Personally, I have a few apps that I'd like for 2 different ROMs

Lite ROM like CRC's could use HTC Album, ClearTemp, and the latest Schaps Config.

I'd really like a custom ROM built on a VERY lite ROM, with the SPB Apps cooked in (un regged of course, I have them all licensed and can add after hard reset) PocketPlus, mobileshell, and phonesuite cover a fairly broad feature set of all the freeware and such built into the Full ROMs. Building them in might save a bit of space and possibly make them quicker. It would be a fairly custom build and I i'd only expect licensed users to get the benefit of those apps... but quite frankly, they are top notch apps with lots of features worth paying for. Makes it hard to go back to the freeware/HTC apps

[larsuck]

This is really different from the one posted here. This one does not replace the windows start menu.

Yes, thank you roomtek. WM5NewMenu is quite different from QuickMenu. I use both together and almost never have to use a stylus or my fingers.

While it is nice to have some apps cooked-in, one problem is that once an app is updated then the cooked-in software becomes out of date.

[roomtek*8525]

Yes, thank you roomtek. WM5NewMenu is quite different from QuickMenu. I use both together and almost never have to use a stylus or my fingers.

While it is nice to have some apps cooked-in, one problem is that once an app is updated then the cooked-in software becomes out of date.

i agree, but there are some app's that never get updated. such as mobile word, powerpoint and excel, calc1-lite, audio manager, E-Java, PIM backup,Screen capture, HTC-Zip,etc.
Besides a new ROM comes out almost every month, and most basic apps dont get updated that much..:D.

[roomtek*8525]

There is also an app which is very very small in size <100kb for microsoft CE devices, called " remote display control ", and it could serve as a good ingredient for a ROM. The application is built by microsoft, so it's virtually bug free.

The app can be included into a ROM because unlike other app's it is hardly updated, as you can see this version was created in 2001.:o

I really like this application cause i can use my mouse as the stylus to operate the device, which appears as a 240 x 320 window on the windows desktop PC, as long as my Windows mobile phone is connected to the PC.

It works on my WM6.1 Rom, despite how old the app is. :)