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supbro - I've got a "big picture" question please re slide-apps compatability

I tried over and over again last night to install the iContact/ iDialer suite to my T-Mobile WING. The ROM I use is OpenTouch version 6, minimal.

Zooming out, here is my objective, which is prob just like most here in general:

I want my WindowsMobile phone running iphone-like stylus-free software for all apps and UI. that's the nutshell. And I get confused by basic compatability issues, especially re iContact.

I just want to ask if I've got this correct, below, more or less. I'm not a developer, but an end user who supports authors by donations, such as to A_C for his slide2 apps, to ssj5trunks for iFonz. So I'm not here everyday, or frequently, to maintain any sense of a larger whole re app development.

(1) From my layperson's best take, iContact is an open source collab first started by larna, then worked on by various other XDA-devs, with people turning out their various iContact "editions". like Burt, for example. Is this right? And you've developed your own strain of this app, is that right?

(2) Skinning of iContact: I'm driven by the visual UI first, so it's hard for me to keep up with which skins are avail for which apps. Is it correct that skins for, for exmaple, Burt's iContact, are specific only to his app - and can't be used on other developer releases of their iContact editions? If so, that makes sense.

(3) Features: From what I read in these threads, one feature you exclude is ABC grid interface for finding contact name, and you argue for your scroll interface on right hand side. Some have requested "can't we have either, and just choose as an option?" -- Are you moving in that direction, or are you absolute re "no ABC grid"?

(4) Interoperability with iDialer. The prime argument for using your iContact edition is this integration, right? But right now, in current versions, iDialer does not replace the system dialer... and the green hard-key on the phone device cannot be remapped (easily, as a pulldown option) to run iDialer... is that right?

It sounds like that's where you're headed though, to have iDialer replace the system dialer -- yes?

In which case you're moving towards a phone that lets me press the green button, dial a call, then access iContact... or vice verse.. I am using iContact, select a contact, and maybe I then just want to press the green button to call that contact. Is this right?

** A betting man says you won't answer this because it's too long. That's what everyone tells me. I hope you will, though, because without a big picture, as an end user I'm trying to figure out if I should use Burts Contact because I like the ABC grid, but use your iDialer... in which case I'm limited to COntact skins for Burt's iContact.

thanks in advance. I just want to use my phone woithout having to jump through 1000 hoops -- and I have been developing my own "best of breed" list... A_C's apps, iFonz, PCM keyboard with iphone skin, for me Ive tried all the browsers and like Opera 9.5 beta best, and don't mind paying. The key to using the phone though are Contacts and Dialer, so i would love to just get yoiurs working and call it a day. thanks