[Q] HTC Desire - Increase Panels

[vitor silva]

Hi Devs

Is there a way to increase the number of Sense Panels from 7 to 9.

I know that with different luncher we can achieve more panels for widgets, but we loose HTC widgets

Best regards

Vitor

 

[samsanchez88]

I know it's not what you're looking for (i don't know if what you want can be done) but launcher pro has some excellent widgets that match the sense ones easily (i use bookmarks, contacts and calendar (wich is alot better than sense!!!)) apart from fixing other sense issues (like the laggy app draw) and can be very very pesonalised!!! Try it out, i did and never came back!!!

PS: to get the launcher pro widgets you have to get the paid version but it's very cheap and well worth it!!!

PPS: if you miss the sense clock, fancy widget is a clock widget that is at least as good as senses and can be personalised alot more!!

 

[RevoWution]

I agree. I've been a die-hard LauncherPro user since its early days

However, the maximum number of homescreens is still 7 with LauncherPro. Although I love the customisation options that comes with LP.

Much snappier than Sense too

 

[LfcFan1977]

Work around

Some launchers can use more that 7 homescreens but do not have sense widgets.
And as started before, LauncherPro has some sense style wigdets.

I use LauncherProPlus with 7 homescreens, so if in the future I require more homescreens, I can just tap the red android on my main homescreen to quickly switch to original sense set-up. You could use it the other way around, with sense as your main launcher and LauncherPro as your secondary launcher., giving you a maximum of 14 homescreens.
Unfortunately I can not remember if LauncherPro (free market version) has the option I am about to describe, you would have to try it.

To set this up, you would need LauncherPro (possibly paid version LauncherProPlus), Desktop VisualizeR (free market app) and a .png image of your choice (in my case, the red android) copied to you sdcard.

Set-up using sense launcher
After installing Desktop VisualizeR and LauncherPro, set sense as the default launcher for when you press your home button.
In sense launcher. Long press a homescreen and choose "Widget" under the "Add items to Home" section.
Choose the size of Desktop VisualizeR widget you like.
Click "Select Icon" and pick "Image File". Find the image you wish to use.
Back on the Desktop VisualizeR menu screen click "Select Action", then "Other", then "Activities". Wait while LauncherPro compiles the list. Scroll down to the first "HTC sense" submenu and choose "HTC Sense/ com.htc.launcher.Launcher".
The other options I chose in Desktop VisaulizeR were:
"Label" = None, just tap the "Clear" button.
"Label Color" = Not used so ignored.
"Touch Effect" = None, the available colours do not suit my theme.

This how both launchers main homescreens look for me.

Sense Launcher

LauncherProPlus