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Simo, here are some Androkkid questions, requests, suggestions.

1. MINIMIZE as an icon link that appears as a desktop item. Many people have asked for this for many months. WHY? Here's why:

For ifonz as well as Androkkid, the same problem has existed: You have designed both apps to replace the TODAY screen, so that if you select in the settings to "STARTUP WITH WINDOWS", Androkkid loads... and while it is running, some people WANT to access the Windows Mobile "Today" screen, or HTC Home, or touchflo, whatever.

It would seem very easy, since you have a minimize function within the left hand bottom menu, to create an icon for that same function, so people can place it where they like if they want to minimize Androkkid, and get to the Today screen...

Similarly, when working with a file explorer or registry editor or other utility, often it is not desireable to have Androkkid return to view until I explicitly call it. There are many ways I could call it:

a. I use WKtask ... which places a tab in the task bar that works just like Windows XP. tap it and the app restores. ... or

b. I can use the Start menu and tap "Running Apps", and select Androkkid that way.

c. If I choose to use a Windows Mobile Today screen, I can have androkkid as an icon there, and tap it.

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2. Selecting ICONS: Please add a user-defined default directory (in settings file), so that I can specify the path where I want Androkkid to look for icons. It gets very frustrating having to re-navigate from root, to storage folder, to next folder, etc, when instead, in the pulldown menu at top, if I could just select my default path... That way I could so easily select and replace icons.

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3. Screen locking: I see one person here asking five times about this: he says he saw an initial lock/unlock sequence within the initial install and set-up stage of first running Androkkid.

But as a separate argument: 2 years ago, maybe 3 by now, the standard everyone was using here at XDA was A_C's S2U2 ... And this was included in every ROM, and this was the preferred way to do this. That has changed.

As A_C has worked to make S2U2 a more robust app, that also shows weather, Appointments, Alarms, SMS messages, Missed Calls, and full-screen photo callerID for incoming call, integration with S2P even while screen is locked, even displaying SMS Messages while keeping the screen locked, the application is no longer light... so it is taxing the performance.

At the same time, every new interface system has been including all of those notifications and displays -- and that's part of the widget philosophy of Androkkid as well.

Third, there are 2 great utilities at XDA that do the same thing, but slightly differently: (a) XDAshutdown ,and (b) Slide2Shutdown ... Both give one-button access to related functions: Screen off, Sleep, Restart, Shutdown, Cancel -- and both enable the mapping of the app to the Power button.

People have been asking those developers "Please add screen locking, so we don't have to use S2U2, since it is not as lean an app". No one is sure when or if they will do it.

Fourth: An amazing amount of development effort has gone into a variety of auto-sensing methods to lock the screen -- such as when the phone approaches the ear, using G sensor, using accelerometer sensing etc. I have found all of those to be interesting -- but too complicated. Those threads are FULL of error problems from people talking about all the situations where it isn;t working well.

Fifth: A lot has chnaged in the touchscreen industry since Apple introduced "Slide 2 unlock", which was a brilliant simple solution to an annoying problem. Android has a much simpler lock/unlock system, and now so does WindowsMobile 6.5 ...

But to me it just makes sense that if an application like Androkkid is a full user interface and app-launching system, then it would make a lot of sense to have a built in, very lean, lock/unlock function... And i could also activate the LOCK with an icon on-screen. I'm not sure what your method of unlock would be, but the person who's been commenting here said you already had a "pull down tab" from top task bar.

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As always, I am willing to donate even more if you were to work on these 3 things.

Thank you for your consideration.