[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] ribero:
HD Manilla on TouchPro (HTC ROM) : Short review and "bug" list

Many thanks mun_rus for this amazing work.

HD Manilla is a Must Have on Touch Pro, mainly for its Stock Panel !

To other TouchPro users with standard HTC ROM (See my signature for version) :

Installation is a bit long but it works well if you follow the instruction :

Desactivate Touchflo 3D

Install HD Manilla

Reboot

Activate Touch Flow 3D

When Touch Flow display "click here to trun", click, then immediatly go to contacts or any other application where you will be able to display a software keyboard (don't ask why ! I really do not know)

Click on the software keyboard so it is displayed

Wait while manilla HD starts (for me it took 10/15 seconds).

If it has not started, retry from step 5, it will work. It's bit hard to be successful the first time because manilla HD won't start if a keyboard is not displayed. So you will have to go very quickly to an application that allows you to display the keyboard after clicking "click here to run/start TouchFlo"

Every tab works absolutely well : stock, meteo (delete old prefs has explained by mun_rus on his first post : if file is locked, deactivate touch flow 3d then delete, then activate again)

So now, bugs I found :

Contact tabs is very slooooooooow to display preferred contacts... I tried to reset it and start adding my contacts from scratch but it's still damn slow (5 to 6 seconds to display the picture of the first contact !). Once the contact panel is displayed you can scroll between contacts without any lag.

You can switch to TouchPro Landscape mode if you slide out the keyboard and you will have the standard icon panel BUT, if you click/select any of the icons (example SMS or Calendar) it will launch the application but revert to portrait mode ( very annoying when you want to use the hardware keyboard) ! And then, if you click on the hardware Home button it will go back to icon panel but in portrait mode ! Strange and not very useful.

If you change the order of the panels, HD Manilla will quit and you will have to restart it (Step 5 of the previous procedure).

Has stated by others, lists displayed in HD Manilla (ex: Cities lists, or panel order list) are too long to be displayed and you won't be able to select the last items otherwise using the hardware arrows (does not work in every lists)

Frames for portrait photos in photo/video panel are too big. You will see only one photo at a time and each portait photos is bit cropped. No problems for photos in landscape.

Conclusion

I love this new Manilla HD it's almost perfect so thank you again to mun_rus for it's work.

However, today I will go back to the old Touchflow 3D because bugs 1 and 2 are really a show stopper for me in every day usage but I will miss a lot the new stock panel and meteo panel. I hope that mun_rus can find a solution.

Other points to take into account : HD manilla works perfectly is many languages (I'm running it in French). It also uninstall easily (it's as long as to install, so be patient) and you can go back to the old Manilla without any problems.

I won't bet that HTC will "port" this new software in our very old Diamond/TouchPro phones :( . I think we must encourage mun_rus in it's hard work porting Manilla HD to our phone !