Any way to set background image for top/bottom bar w/o Wisbar or other apps?

[aiiro]

Like the title says - is there any way or some small utility to apply background image for top and/or bottom bars? (I know You can't make them simply transparent).

I have tried Wisbar, rlToday etc, they are all either doing too much on the side, consuming way too much memory or just buggy. I've also searched this forum but as the bars have too many names (top bar, taskbar, menu bar, start bar etc.) I've come up with nothing really...

What I would like to achieve is something like this (image from ultimatelaunch.de):

http://www.ultimatelaunch.de/ultimatelaunch/screenshots/screen0.jpg

Please help.

[usrname]

i asked that before :D
it is another tool by the ultimate launch author called skinmobile:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1916467&postcount=28

[aiiro]

OK, thanks!!!

I'll look into it later (or tomorrow) as I don't have my device with me atm. But it sure seems what I am looking for considering what I have seen and that it's small :)

[bbobeckyj]

you can also use vijay555's todayToggle (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=243211&highlight=vjtoggletoday) to remove either or both of them, and just show the background image.
who really needs the bottom bar anyway, if someone can't remember what the two (big number:D) launches are, what are they doing playing around with ppcs?
it's a tiny exe (9.5kb) that you can leave in your windows\startup folder.
Then edit the registry to choose the size, the exe basically shrinks the bars to 2pixels but you can choose any size you want

[aiiro]

Okay, thanks for the tip!!!

By the way - I've seen screenshots of taskbars with icons representing running applications just like in normal desktop PC. Besides MagicButton and WKTask and maybe Wisbar (not sure), are there any other apps (small) or registry hacks that do this? It seems that all these applications address a multiple changes in the system, I am trying to locate utilities that do just that one little thing - show running application icons on taskbar (next to start button).

[bbobeckyj]

i use wktask and set it to do absolutely nothing except show the running tasks.
it does'nt seem to me that it slows down or causes any problems

[aiiro]

OK, thanks for the tip! Gone try it that way.

By the way Skinmobile is buggy on my WM6, so that app kind of sucks...

[usrname]

yes its a bit buggy but you can edit the ini file and graphics and try a bit around. i had it running without any problems on wm6.1

[aiiro]

Naah, I'll just leave it to that and wait for better apps. The "see-thru" effect isn't worth it, if its buggy. For me at least. The buggyness seems to appear when I click on any of the taskbar icons. Although I didn't do a soft reset after running the prog. Should have I done it? Would it change anything?