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mjmonsada said:
Best background i have ever seen so far! I'm a total noob at this but can you tell me how you did your desktop theme?
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Thanks mjmonsada
This and the two other screens stayed on my phone for at least a week, which was an all time record :)

Apps you need

1. Multipicture Live Wallpaper
to place 3 images which results in a 'seamless' widescreen when moving between the 3 screens

2. Desktop Visualiser
to place transparent images over the relevant text at the bottom to open the apps associated with the respective shortcut links

3. LauncherPro to place the Dock image of the highlight pen and link the shortcuts to 'text, mail, phone'
You will also need the LP Plus version to enable you to resize the Widgets over the text in point 2 above (there are others that are free that also allow resizing eg GoLaucher etc)

4. SimiClock for the clock

Brief comments on images
a) wall from wallbase.net (Saturation applied to mine as it was a little 'lifeless' without this)
b) text at bottom created in photoshop with shortcut links placed as seen
c) placement of various widgets on the other two screens

NB
d) Certain text was added to the 'blackboard' on a later version of this design where I replaced the bottom highlight dock with chalk images on the top part of the screen by handwriting with the mouse and using a 'chalk' type filter etc
You should find that in My Modified Walls in Dropbox Gallery
(my preferred look of this design maybe you'll like it too :) )

I think all images should be in my Dropbox Gallery and have been posted with the various posts for this image and are available for both 480x800 screens and Galaxy Tab 600x1024 screens

Hope this helps.

Cheers
 
Sorry if images are huge on here was to lazy to re-size em, just showing my KB i made plus others i do for swype, you can see more samples over on theMikMik.com • Home search for caliguy in the forums :D
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I'm having problems with the dock. I'm able to replace the default dock with the highlighter dock picture but I have no idea to link the shortcuts with the "phone text mail." The only thing i can do is remove the dock icons. Any idea what I'm missing/doing wrong?
 
I like to keep it clean. I keep my dock and notification shades hidden, gestures to show/hide. CyanogenMod CM7, RC4 on t-mobile g2.

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My lock screen, rotary wheel. Pulling lock right = unlock, pulling sound left = mute/unmute. Center button pulls down to immediately go into SMS with a specific contact (my girl), because at least 50% of my having to unlock my phone is just to see what she texted.

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My default screen. Minimalistic text custom widgets at the top (time/date) and bottom left (top row = battery life, bottom row = weather.) The clock icon is for xTreme Alarm, the RSS icon is SlashDot Frontpage. We pull to the left to reveal...

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My second (and only other) desktop page. I revealed my dock at the bottom for symmetry. Icons are, from left to right, K = Kongregate app, N = n64oid, A = astro file manager, P = FPSe. The nes/snes/etc are their appropriate emulators. FM is stock FM radio app. My dock is market, SMS, browser, phone, and app launcher.

Wallpaper on DeviantART. Available here. It's not mine so I wouldn't feel right not showing the source.

Minimalistic text widget, minimalist ADW theme (white) for icons. I know it's not much to look at, but I like a clean look.
 
New set up after playing some more :)

Lock Screen: nothing different here yet
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Main Home Screen: GO Launcher / Glass Clock / Glass Calendar / OneSeven
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Dock icons: phone / email / apps / sms / internetz (I've swapped the last 2 around after I took the screenshots)

Device Apps Screen: GO Launcher
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One screen to the left: Dropbox icons / Rift authenticator / IP Address widget / Elixir widget
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One screen to the right: Agenda widget
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All my apps can be found [here]
 
mjmonsada said:
I'm having problems with the dock. I'm able to replace the default dock with the highlighter dock picture but I have no idea to link the shortcuts with the "phone text mail." The only thing i can do is remove the dock icons. Any idea what I'm missing/doing wrong?
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After you remove the default icons making them 'blank', long press on the doc image icons and select Custom icon and choose a transparent image 72x72 pixels. Also link to the Application you want to open ie Phone, Messaging, Gmail etc.
If you need there is a transparent.png in my Dropbox icons folder.
When you download from Dropbox, open the file first in Dropbox, then make sure you use the Save button at the bottom of the screen.
It will still look 'Black' or 'White' but when you select the transparent.png file in LP it will be truly transparent.
Right clicking and Saving from Dropbox will not be transparen!
 
niteowl360 said:
After you remove the default icons making them 'blank', long press on the doc image icons and select Custom icon and choose a transparent image 72x72 pixels. Also link to the Application you want to open ie Phone, Messaging, Gmail etc.
If you need there is a transparent.png in my Dropbox icons folder.
When you download from Dropbox, open the file first in Dropbox, then make sure you use the Save button at the bottom of the screen.
It will still look 'Black' or 'White' but when you select the transparent.png file in LP it will be truly transparent.
Right clicking and Saving from Dropbox will not be transparen!
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Got everything to work! Thanks again!
 
paulmz said:
It's a shame that background isn't a live weather widget. It would be awesome if the art changed with the weather.

Hmmm... maybe another project for me?...
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i know someone somewhere said they had something in live wallpapers that had it change the wallpaper based on the weather. I know I'm not being helpful at all... besides just to say it IS possible, someone has done it!

p.s. love the homescreen, share a few deets for a newb on how you made it?
 
sonofaresiii said:
i know someone somewhere said they had something in live wallpapers that had it change the wallpaper based on the weather. I know I'm not being helpful at all... besides just to say it IS possible, someone has done it!

p.s. love the homescreen, share a few deets for a newb on how you made it?
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Thanks!!
I used multipicture live wallpaper and set the crop/size ratio to "show entire picture." And I set the background color as black. That's how I got the entire wallpaper to show on one screen with the black spaces above and below the wallpaper.
The weather is beautiful widgets, emotisun (or something like that) skin
The clock is make your clock widget
the battery percentage, day of week, and date is minimalistic text

I also thought it'd be cool if the wallpaper could change with the weather... There's a "weather girl" widget who changes clothes with the weather... https://market.android.com/details?id=ro.noelx.android.wg3&feature=search_result I tried it but I didn't think it worked that well. Maybe you could make a better one, and make it look cuter like the wallpaper!
 
been a while since i changed my s* around :D
just flashed Darky's 9.5 and Valle's honeycomb theme and loving it.

lockscreen and main homescreen:
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minimalistic text and missedit for sms/missed calls
 
I'm still pretty new at this... but I didn't want to miss out on the fun!



Here's what I've got at the moment:

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That's right. It's Batman.

edit: and yes, sevenofnine, I totally stole your formats for makeyourownclock and minimalistic text.

oh and if anyone has any suggestions for how to make things look a little better... like i said, new at this and i'd appreciate the help
 
mykela25 said:
Keeping it simple for the weekend

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What's the calls/mails/texts app thingy? It looks interesting.

Is the date/batt/temp widget minimalist text?

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Do you have the app drawer icon in white as well :D I'll still take black if that's all you got :P


mykela25 said:
LMAO. :o I DID read my email thats why its that low. Thats a good day, its normally over 1000. I just got tired of scrolling thru once I hit 300 hahaha
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:eek: I hope those are spams and not important...

qraider said:
New set up after playing some more :)

Lock Screen: nothing different here yet


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Dock icons: phone / email / apps / sms / internetz

All my apps can be found [here]
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What's the icons set's name and are there a lot of icons in the set :)
 
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