gibbs1984
Android Expert
Oh yeah, I'm not fond of the Sense launcher but I can't stand the Contacts, Gallery and Dialer apps on the Stock ROM, just feel like something out of that late 90's with the UI. And I can't live without the People, Dialer, Mail and Calendar Sense apps, seem much more modern.Actually the first real change I made to my Desire, a few days after buying it and long before I rooted, never mind started flashing, was to ditch Sense. Installed ADW, later LauncherPro, never ran the Sense launcher again. If forced to choose between Launcher and Sense I'd take Launcher, but fortunately our choices aren't so limited.
As for the apps, I prefer the stock calendar (though have others, and still looking for the perfect one), dialer/contacts I've concluded are a matter of what you're used to, but feel no desire to go back, and I always used 3rd-party email and messaging. So the only Sense app whose absence was noticed was Teeter, which my daughter likes, but I've installed a couple of other labyrinth games which hopefully covers that.
I use LauncherPro Plus as my launcher, I know I can replace the apps with news ones from the Market but feel they should come good enough anyway but also the Gingerbread UI has gone very flat & square i.e. with the buttons etc and where is the colour?
Anyway, it's what we like and each to our own, there's plenty of negatives with Sense, this is why I love Android
