[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mark43:
My setup

My quest started with a cube from dutty v4 RTM. The eye candy was impressive but seemed limited. I stumbled across UL while learning about Slither2006's cube in C++. I started messing with it and tried to set it up like the cube. Then I realized that you can have plugins inside! I finally have my UL setup just the way I want.

My today screen uses earthview.tsk from alltheway's download site: http://www.4shared.com/dir/5551593/20b4549a/sharing.html

I have the time showing in the top bar next to the task manager by using kaiser tweak instead of battery bars.

I have BatteryStatus Today-Plugin (Ver. 0.05.104 Build 0289) as my first item on the today screen with "show more indicators" checked. I like to see the phone temperature and battery discharge all the time.

My 1st UL tab is the HTC Home plugin. The learning curve on this is that if you want to use HHC, make sure you go to start>settings>today>items and make sure you deselect UL and check HTC Home. Then use HHC to make your changes. After the changes are made then go back and desect HTC Home and reselect UL. I got the icons from Vamarris home icon set he made for Dutty. I learned over at PPCGeeks from eehrhard that you can set the header height to 0 which hides the tabbed header (the little icons at the top or bottom to show which tab you are on). Doing this allowed me to open up UL to even more screen real estate. I set UL to a fixed plugin-height to 234 pixel (this setting is under display). I got this by increasing it until I got the scroll bar on the right and then I just kept making the pixel smaller by 1 until it disappeared. Since HTC Home is the biggest plug-in I use setting UL's height to it will be big enough for all my UL tabs.

My 2nd UL tab is a shortcuts & sytemstate tab. I use this tab as my multimedia and fav application tab. I use program-icon with text for *.exe or *.lnk that I like the associated icon. If I do not like the icon then I use the icons from bluemetalaxe (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=378260) as a XP-Icon(32 bit) with text. I was able to squeeze in 16 icons that are 32x32. Setting up the icons is very simple. Under the tab you want just select new and pick either XP-Icon (if you have a icon you want associated with the app) or Program-Icon (if you want to use the icon that comes with the app). I like using the "with text" feature, just make sure that if you use this you have to have text entered or UL will spit out a error.

My 3rd UL tab is the same as the 2nd but I use it more for my config apps and such. The setup is the same. I only used 12 for this tab as I do not see a need for more but I still have space for 4 more if I need in the future.

My 4th UL tab is a " Combination of tabs*". On top I have Windows Live Plugin for my IM. Below that I have Face Contact plugin from www.cnetx.com with "disable gestures" checked. This allows the gesture feature of Face Contact to work without moving UL to the next tab as long as I am gesturing in the Face Contact area. I moved this plugin's margin under the "Tab" setting to "Margin top/bottom" to 30 pixel to set the right height I like.

My 5th UL tab is a "Today-Plugin" using the TodayAgenda v1.1 I got from http://pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php. It is a integrated meeting, agenda and task organizer. I have this plugin "Activate plugin on startup" checked so that it does not need to load everytime I use it, all it has to do is just refresh the data.

I have the slide animation to cube and I do not use the click animation as I got rid of the header. Under the "Behavior" tab of UL Config I have the gesture control set to logical like the cubes I was used to. The first tab is set to open on startup. I have not set up to use the extra gesture control as I do not see a necessity but when I played around with it it worked great.

Hopefully this long post (sorry about that) helps someone learning how to set up UL. I love it and after you set yours up you will never go back...

Ron