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Launchers or TouchWiz?

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nastytrooper

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Do you guys prefer the stock touch wiz launcher or one from the market? Post screen captures of your phones screen to show off, but also tell what you are using. I'm using touch wiz pretty much a blank screen trying to figure out what I want to do with it. Old iphone user so im not use to all these customization options.
 
I use golauncher. Touchwiz is fine, I just can't stand the side scrolling app drawer. I also prefer to be able to get more neutral colors on the icons at the bottom, tw is a little to vibrant sometimes (depending on my mood). I'm on my phone and can't figure out how to do attachments from it, so no image. Sorry.
 
Here is mine: Top Widget is "Beautiful Widget" Middle Widget "Circle Launcher" Bottom and Under the top widget are "Glass Widget".

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I currently just use Touchwiz, but I know there is a ICS theme for Launcher Pro somewhere that I might go with. I like some of the features of touchwiz though....touch decision.
 
I used Espier Launcher to group icons like iphone. Less customizable with no widgets but so simple to use. The lack of widgets also has the upside of diminishing the load on the battery since I originally got greedy and had all kinds of bling prior to Espier.
 
I'm liking this version of TouchWiz. It seems very snappy and clean.

I did add CircleLauncher, however, to keep my minimized look at feel.



I also customized my App Drawer so it looks more like iOS' page groupings (one page for games, another for social networking, another for reading, one for video, one for news, one for tools, etc.).



And I've replaced the Lock Screen with WidgetLocker. That has a Sense style lock bar and the weather widget.

 
I had LauncherPro installed for a good month, as it was snappy, battery light, and beautiful. Then I installed Go again, and they had just added a new swipe transition effect, the cylindrical:

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I have not returned to LP since. Everyone I've shown is majorly impressed with the effect. My battery is not thanking me though.. but I will get an extended one just to keep this launcher.
 
I've been a big fan of Zeam because of its speed and lightweight, but I've grown too accustomed to my scrollable twitter and calendar widgets. So for now I'm using Launcher Pro. I'm not opposed to trying something else that catches my eye though.

I do like the Touchwiz launcher quite a bit but the lack of scrollable widgets and any customization of the bottom icons makes it a no go.
 
nastytrooper said:
What theme is that
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The launcher is Go Launcher with the transition effect set to Cylindrical, the system font is the one that came with mVideoPlayer, the dock icons are from launcherpro.droidicon.com, the calendar widget is a Go Widget called Calendar with the Transparent widget theme applied, and the background is from zedge.
 
flammenwurfer said:
I do like the Touchwiz launcher quite a bit but the lack of scrollable widgets and any customization of the bottom icons makes it a no go.
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TouchWiz is a customized version of ADW Launcher, which supports both scrollable widgets and customization of dock icons. I dont have TouchWiz installed but try dragging icons onto the dock, or long pressing icons already on there, or pressing the menu key from your app drawer.
 
adaaaam said:
The launcher is Go Launcher with the transition effect set to Cylindrical, the system font is the one that came with mVideoPlayer, the dock icons are from launcherpro.droidicon.com, the calendar widget is a Go Widget called Calendar with the Transparent widget theme applied, and the background is from zedge.
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Really like your icons man!...I'm basically using the same thing as you, but a slightly cleaner screen...
 
My Screen, I have the options in GO set, so that to see the status bar you need to hit the home key
 

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da man said:
I use golauncher. Touchwiz is fine, I just can't stand the side scrolling app drawer. I also prefer to be able to get more neutral colors on the icons at the bottom, tw is a little to vibrant sometimes (depending on my mood). I'm on my phone and can't figure out how to do attachments from it, so no image. Sorry.
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Regarding the app drawer, if you don't like the side scrolling effect you can change it to vertical scrolling. Just select the app drawer, then select menu, view type, alphabetical list. Now you have a vertical scrolling app drawer.

If you would like to tone down the colors, go to home, menu, settings, display, screen mode, then pick movie mode. That might not really help but you can give it a try.

If you want to attach a file to an email, (using the gmail app) start composing the email, then select menu and attach. I'm not sure if the standard mail app does this the same way since I don't use it. I use an email program called K-9 mail and it does manage attachments the same way as the google mail app does.
 
flammenwurfer said:
I've been a big fan of Zeam because of its speed and lightweight, but I've grown too accustomed to my scrollable twitter and calendar widgets. So for now I'm using Launcher Pro. I'm not opposed to trying something else that catches my eye though.

I do like the Touchwiz launcher quite a bit but the lack of scrollable widgets and any customization of the bottom icons makes it a no go.
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Dude download "Apw Widget" from the market. They have scrollable twitter and facebook, so I still use touch wiz
 
MachineGunnWilly said:
Really like your icons man!...I'm basically using the same thing as you, but a slightly cleaner screen...
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Thanks! If you noticed, I cropped each icon so that the center is largest and the side ones are smallest, to give a slight 3D perspective. That's another nuance of Go that I like: it lets you crop pngs so that icons can be really large or really small.
 
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