launcher

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is the launcher the the same as the stock android launcher? if not could someone post it. thanks

Samsungs own I think, I use Launcher Pro though.

The stock launcher is TouchWiz. Its very good, smoother than launcherpro. And has a superior app drawer. I would use it if not for launcherpros customisation options.

Edit: i especially like the homescreen scrollong method in touchwiz, its much cooloer than lps elastic scrolling!

couldn't agree more!

For information: ADW.Launcher works well on the Tab too, no issues with the high resolution.

I'm using it rather than the stock TouchWiz one mostly so that I can customise the Browser and Email launch buttons. It has some extra nice touches, but can be configured to behave almost exactly like TouchWiz.

Launcher Pro is fast but its application drawer is very limited (it basically dumps a huge scrolling list of icons). Touchwiz is reasonably nice, but managing hundreds of application icons remains hard, despite the "move icon" feature in the application drawer. ADW.Launcher however, provides separate "groups" / "catalogs" panes to divide the application drawer into several distinct buckets of smaller size, which makes it a lot easier to find applications. I just hate browsing endless list of alphabetically-ordered icons
As for QuickDesk, it has some potential, but it is somewhat locked to portrait mode on my Galaxy Tab I am using it anyway as it plays nice with ADW.Launcher (the Home button gets hacked to support single/double tap and launch each of them individually).

Quickdesk pro has landscape support. It also acts as a completely different screen to portrait, so you can have FB/Twitter/music widgets in portrait and loads of icons in landscape

Sent from my HTC Desire

Hi, is it necessary to root the Tab before installing ADW.launcher?

Because I have tried installing it on my non-rooted Tab but the application doesn't want to install...

I'm using it rather than the stock TouchWiz one mostly so that I can customise the Browser and Email launch buttons.

You can replace these in the stock launcher!

Regards,

Dave

It's funny. Even though TouchWiz 3.0 comes on the Vibrant, I couldn't stand it. So, I use Launcher Pro Plus. On the Tab, I actually like it. It must have been much improved since then?