[Acer Iconia A500] walkert:
Hubs how-to

I first set-up my screens using ADWLauncher EX. In the ADWLauncher settings under the UI >> Main dock, I disabled the dock from appearing (since i create my own "dock"). Also, in Screen preferences make sure you have the "overlap widgets" enabled. I have my rows set to 9, and colunmns to 10.

I created labels in Folder Manager and assigned them in the way to let my custom folders show up (these will become the actions for the Minimalist Text "buttons", such as "apps main" on the home hub). Next, add Minimalist Text widgets to create custom format static text only for each hub. Do this by saying Custom format in the "Predefined Layout" setting in Minimalist Text widget and then clicking on the "Custom Layout" setting to remove the default "weather" information. In Minimalist Text you can add "text" (in the Custom Layout fly out window) by pressing the "plus" on the right hand side, add or remove "lines" by the strange icons beneath the "plus" sign. For just static text in Minimalist Text, click on the "plus", then click on the "Misc" tabe that appears in the "add" fly out, then "static text." For the hub title I used two lines, main line was the main hub name, such as "Home", I set the style to "accented". The second line is the description such as "welcome back", with a style set to normal. For the hub titles, I modified the size of the Accented and Normal text to 30 and 15 dip respectively. Also, make sure you choose the background and set it to how you want. I liked my solid black so it would always be easy to read regardless of the wallpaper.

Move these on the page where you want them. It is best to design it in portrait mode, then turn it to make sure it looks okay and to move the widgets. Do not put any action in the "hub" label in Minimalist Text.

Next, create the Minimalist text widgets for each "link" or action button you want, assigning it to the folder link (by label if you want a filtered approach). Minimalist text also offers a weather format (which I used on one page and its action is to open a weather bookmark).

After you create each action icon for each page, you will have to manually move each one in a line in landscape mode. This takes some time to align them, and using ADWLauncher EX resizing, you can expand some of the action links to make them all fit. Trial and error unfortunately.

I used MultiLive Wallpaper to achieve the different wallpaper for each hub. you just need to create a folder for each "hub" and put wallpapers in it, then in the configuration for the live wallpaper point each "screen" to the separate folders.

If you need to edit an exiting action linked Minimalist Text widget on one of your hubs, you can click on the main application icon (I put mine in a Folder label called tools, with a link to the folder on the home page). It will load all the individual widgets you create. Also, you can remove all the defaults in Minimalist Text widget ("custiom layout") to create blank spaces, or empty blocks for spacing and gaps. This is very handy.

I hope this helps.

T

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One last thing, I would recommend ADWLauncher EX or the LauncherPro to do the hubs. They are the easiest to use.