Widgets!

[Peterpoose]

Hi folks,

Is there any nice looking widgets for Market and Browser?

I dislike the shopping bag and the Blue globe.

I am on ICS Prime.

Cheers

 

[chanchan05]

Those aren't widgets, they're shortcut icons, like the ones on a Windows desktop. By default you cannot change homescreen icons on stock launcher, but you can if you use a third party launcher like Go Launcher or Launcher Pro. You can use any image you like. An alternative if you do not want to change launchers is to use Desktop Visualizer.

 

[tcat007]

You can pretty much just long press and change any icon to anything you can find online. I've changed just about every icon on my device (and manually photo-shopped a few). I typically just look for transparent .png files. One of my shortcut pages:

Same of what might come up for a "Market" icon: https://www.google.com/search?q=market&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=OsT&rls=org.mozilla:en-USfficial&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=UUIaT5azHPKosAKzip3pCw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBQQ_AUoAQ&biw=1644&bih=866#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=HD9&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&tbm=isch&sa=1&source=hp&q=android+market+.png&pbx=1&oq=android+market+.png&aq=f&aqi=g-C1&aql=&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=7692l13339l1l15279l10l9l0l0l0l1l192l1105l4.5l9l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=5cf21899ebe7148c&biw=1644&bih=866

 

[chanchan05]

You can pretty much just long press and change any icon to anything you can find online. I've changed just about every icon on my device (and manually photo-shopped a few). I typically just look for transparent .png files. One of my shortcut pages:

Same of what might come up for a "Market" icon: https://www.google.com/search?q=market&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=OsT&rls=org.mozilla:en-USfficial&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=UUIaT5azHPKosAKzip3pCw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBQQ_AUoAQ&biw=1644&bih=866#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=HD9&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&tbm=isch&sa=1&source=hp&q=android+market+.png&pbx=1&oq=android+market+.png&aq=f&aqi=g-C1&aql=&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=7692l13339l1l15279l10l9l0l0l0l1l192l1105l4.5l9l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=5cf21899ebe7148c&biw=1644&bih=866

Long press>change icon does not work on all launchers. Stock TW and Stock Sense for example does not have it, and I'm pretty sure stock ICS does not have it either. If I remember correctly you're using Go Launcher.

 

[Peterpoose]

Thanks for the advice folks.

Being shortcuts makes sense.

I'm using CircleLauncher for my Widgets and i really like it.

 

[Peterpoose]

Just tried Visual Desktop,it is exactly what I was looking for.

Many thanks!