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[G1 Apps and Games] Nidisa:
I'd like to add my vote to be able to switch out icons please!! :) Oh, and to be able to hide notification bar like in Home++
[G1 Apps and Games] jhankinson:
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Thanks for the tip, I used that for a while but I don't like having to click into the folder, choose a name and then choose a number. I just recently set up an application dock with direct dial shortcuts which is more in line with what I wanted. It was a little bit of a pain to add each number but it is nice to be able to one tocuh dial my favorite contacts from my home screen. I guess this along with the starred contacts folder makes my idea for a direct dial widget kind of pointless.

I still think a music player and scrollable playlist widget would be cool.

Finally thank you so much for alphabetizing the app dock, it is so much nicer this way.
[G1 Apps and Games] dsexton:
@rogro82

First of great home replacement. Thanks, and keep up the good work. I like how GDE does not go crazy with the theming, simple minimalistic is how I like things. I like the way the project is unfolding and hope to see what it has in the future.

That being said, after the last conversation widget update (or Droid 2.0.1 update), I have notice quite lag between some apps and the home screen. It is REALLY slow when I slide out the keyboard (Droid) waiting sometimes up to 1 minute after my phone has been restarted.

Also, do you have plans on setting up a donation's account? It would be nice if GDE had a nice website for people like me who had to research on forums to pick what alternative home to use. A nice website may help converge users to single home alternatives versus the tons that are popping up. If the Android community can focus it efforts on one app versus making different versions I think it can bring Android devices along way.

Well that was my opinion, right or wrong as it may be. Let me know and if anyone else has any other opinions feel free to chime in.

Thanks!
[G1 Apps and Games] dbjc:
I do agree with you!
[G1 Apps and Games] dbjc:
Yes!

GDE will be a so great home replacement when the notification bar will be hideable (as an option, like under Home++). It's a so simple but important feature.
[G1 Apps and Games] sheridan2000:
Not sure if this has been answered already but >100 pages and ill be here all night.....:)

Got a Hero and would like to be able to add the HTC widgets to the home screens but no option to do so...it this due to be added in a future upgrade..

Thanks
[G1 Apps and Games] djosiah:
hero widgets cant be used, because they are heavily build into the hero framework and cant be accessed. im not sure if this is still correct, but that is the reason why it hasnt been included.
[G1 Apps and Games] SCDroid:
Started having a FC problem today. Everytime i hit the home button (when leaving an app) screen goes black and force closes.
[G1 Apps and Games] gtrplr71:
does the notification bar change colors automatically? I like the different color bars the maket shows colored notification bars on hero theme?
[G1 Apps and Games] eghoti1:
i've noticed a little decrease in hang timr when returning to home screen with the latest release. also running Flyscreen and this together isn't very ideal on memory
[G1 Apps and Games] Wysie:
Those screenshots are probably from rooted ROMs which are themed, in addition to GDE. GDE (or any other home app for now) can't theme the notification bar.
[G1 Apps and Games] SCDroid:
More on the FC issue i had when returning to home screen out of an app. I deleted the conversations widget (which i love) and it's fine now. So it has something to do with the convo widget
[G1 Apps and Games] brucemcl:
two bugs in GDE

1. You've got some text that should change colors that does not. Personalize appearance, Desktop settings, and Button settings all have text at the top of their screens. Themes can change the background color of this text area, but the text itself is always gray.

2. The folder display bug is still around. When I change the display of created folders between icon and list views, the folder goes blank. If I back out of the folder with the back button and go in again, the change has been made.

mT3G, T-Mobile USA, stock ROM Android 1.6.
[G1 Apps and Games] MontAlbert:
this can be altered in a theme- its an xml edit when inside eclipse i have found.

BUT i still havent found where to edit the colour of the selector when inside a folder placed on the desktop...
[G1 Apps and Games] kron2:
new theme for gde wysie if you would post it on the market thx.montalbert you edit the color of the selector when inside a folder by changing the box_launcher images.

apk. is in the zip with screen shots
[G1 Apps and Games] brucemcl:
I can alter a lot of colors, but one area in particular doesn't seem to go along with the plan. See my attachments for a better explanation. Note that I have black and dark gray text set for all text colors, but I still get light gray text in the area in the red circle.

Maybe it's my phone or OS version that's acting up...
[G1 Apps and Games] jmccarthy14:
Is this for rooted phones only? The taskbar color is different. Might hold me off until he adds the option to remove it ).

EDIT: Ahh no. Too bad its a very cool/sharp theme. The white bar throws off the whole thing though, too dark to have the notification bar blaring. I'll save it till it gets hidden in GDE )
[G1 Apps and Games] taz2781:
I like the notification bar can get themed, so i will hope this can be made....
[G1 Apps and Games] Pinesal:
Well, since Home++ can hide the notification bar. Couldn't GDE hide the default bar and have it's own, themeable version of the notification bar?
[G1 Apps and Games] MontAlbert:
don't the box launcher images only have images for the top tab and and background of the folder once open? For your theme above you still have the selector orange (where it is selecting the andexplorer icon)- thats what i want to change. or is yours meant to still be orange?
[G1 Apps and Games] kron2:
Sorry thought you where talking about the top tab.
[G1 Apps and Games] GHII:
I love the Application Dock, just one request/suggestion. Is there any way it can be revolving so once the Apps A-Z reach Z it will circle back to A without having to scroll back to the left?
[G1 Apps and Games] Redflea:
Thanks for the recent updates...they are much appreciated.

Regarding issues...

I thought this defect was gone, but icons are not appearing in the app tray when I install a new program. The icon for a newly installed program doesn't show until I change the view (from list to icon, or vice-versa).

I've started using the Fade transition, as the cube and stretch transitions would start to hang up over time...initially they would be great, but after a while (talking hours here) they would start to lag/get choppy. The Fade transition is always fast and smooth. I actually do like it quite a bit, but the "wow" of the cube or even stretch is fun. :) The Cube in landscape mode is particularly fun to watch.

The other area is that scrolling in the app tray isn't as smooth as I'd like.

Happy holidays to all...four days and counting until vacation starts!!

Oh - almost forgot...agree that a revolving application doc as requested above makes a lot of sense. Also would like it to default to showing the maximum number of icons.
[G1 Apps and Games] jraggio:
Love GDE ever since I purchased it. One minor bug for me. The wallpaper looks very odd when shown in landscape view. The wallpaper looks to be divided on the regions used to divide wallpaper in portrait mode. It causes seams to be visible.

Thanks,

John
[G1 Apps and Games] passey12:
To get rid of the app dock press and hold the corner of the app dock and thin it will lift from the screen
[G1 Apps and Games] jhankinson:
A gesture based launcher would be really cool, like if you slid your finger straight up it would start gesture mode and then you could do a gesture and have it linked to any app or contact. I know that is probably a lot of work so I don't expect it but it would be cool to have. In general I think any additional feature linked to an up swipe or a down swipe would be nice for example if you just linked each to something like the two soft keys you already have.

Also please fix the disappearing apps bug when you switch between list and icon view.

Thanks.
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
Have been away for a few days and now i have to read like four pages ;) Thanks for all the responses... I will look into all of the issues and feature requests.

Have noticed some droid users are having some problems so im focusing on issues first and then ill start adding features.
[G1 Apps and Games] windstrings:
yes.. your a busy boy... but have made awesome strides... keep up the good work!

I have seem some people opt to not use the fast fling feature because it causes black screens or is not consistent....

While I have never had a black screen from using it, I do have a suggestion.

Seems as the GDE has gotten much smoother so that a light touch makes it respond, "which is great", but its not consistent.

I still like the fast fling, but it needs to be consistent so the operator learns how fast to fling it..... right now... a hard fling may make it go one page and the next time you do it.. go 4 pages.... has something to do with how its handling the memory I suppose.

Whether 4 pages per fling or 2.. as long as its consistent, we can learn how to judge what it will do so we don't "pass" the page we are really trying to get to and have to back up.
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
Fast fling always stops at the first or last page... so if you are at page 2 and fast fling to the left you will actually just jump one screen. I agree this can be confusing some times especially without a screen indicator. I am looking into a more clear way ( and also into a screen indicator which can be themed to it fits all themes ).

Besides that fast fling depends on a lot of factors like pressure. I am thinking about making the pressure threshold adjustable so that one can configure when it will fastfling.
[G1 Apps and Games] gixxerjoe:
Rogro!

First I want to say thank you for making such a wonderful home replacement app! It works wonderfully on my Droid. I am glad to see you making so many updates, fixes, changes for your product! You really just keep making it better and better! I made a coupe of youtube video of this running on my Droid. And have got over 3000 hits on it... so I hope it has helped you get a few more sales :D I cannot wait to see what you have in store for us in the upcoming months. Keep up the great work.

If you want to check out the videos I made you can find it here

Also I wanted to ask you, I saw that you posted the tools to make themes for GDE on the first page. But how hard is it? Is there coding involved? I have made lots of themes for BlackBerry's but would really love to make themes for your Home app... Any info you could give to point me in the right direction would be much appreciated
[G1 Apps and Games] windstrings:
Ah.. ok , I didn't know that.... I think I like free scroll.. but maybe that wouldn't serve others as good...... I'm easy either way... which ever works best...

its no big deal to me.
[G1 Apps and Games] rizocreations:
First off I want to start off by saying, good freaking work with this program. It is by far the best. One thing I wish it had was the side dock bars that I have seen in PandaHome. Other than that, I would like to have ability for the icons to change with a theme change. Also, nice widget interfaces for the default widgets would be nice too.

Oh and what if I don't want my applications in the dock bar to be in alphabetical order? I put some favorite contacts in there, I want them in my own chosen order.
[G1 Apps and Games] AnGeL_WiT_SiNs:
GDE wont lauch

does anyone have this problem..ive installed gde on cm mod 4.2.7.1 and it wont launch..can someone help me please
[G1 Apps and Games] brucemcl:
Making themes for GDE is not very hard.

Most of the work is modifying .png graphics files. You can use any graphics tools you have on your computer to do that.

There are a few text and background colors that are controlled by RGB hex values in text files like FFFF00 for yellow, etc. It's easy to change these with any text editor.

The hardest part is getting the developer tools set up on your computer and then getting the project names squared away. rogro's instructions for doing all this are pretty good. I had to reread a couple of times but all of the information I needed to get started theming was there.
[G1 Apps and Games] MontAlbert:
you dont launch it. you press the home key and it should give you the option to use GDE. If it doesnt., whichever home app launches for you, go into settings, manage applications, select the home app that is default and click clear defaults...
[G1 Apps and Games] Archos5It:
how use this apk on the archos 5 it

i see a video on youtube
[G1 Apps and Games] windstrings:
1. Hit the menu bar in center bottom on the screen "not the phone but the screen", you will see all your app pop up in alphabetical order.

2. at the top hit the left arrow beside the little window and it will go from "all applications", to"applications....

3. Hit it again and you will see "GDE" and the control panel below.

4. touch the control panel and pick " desktop settings"

5. scroll down now to see the slider bars.. the first one chooses how many screens you will have and the second one chooses which screen is the home screen "the one it goes to when you hit your home button on the phone"... they are calling it "set the default desktop".
[G1 Apps and Games] bamfsig45:
Great App, and just wanted to say thanks.

One request I would like to see is on the Conversations Widget add a 4x2 option as well. Oh and Screen shots which Im sure has been mentioned in this thread somewhere.

Thank you.
[G1 Apps and Games] corinacakes:
Hi, First thing i want to say is I just LOVE GDE!!! I'm suddenly having a problem tho:( one of my screens now has a split down the middle. kinda like each side of the pic is there but no middle and it's drivin me whack!! i uninstalled it then reinstalled it, did a battery pull, did a regular shutdown, changed my wallpaPer like 6 times and even went to a dif home to put the wallPaper on. Nothing works and it took me DAYS to customize all my icons with bettercut. i dont want to re-do all that work until i get the solution to this. i had to go back to Pandahome until this is solved but i miss gde:( Please get back to me as soon as humanly possible:D i really appreciate yur help.

thanks, Corinacakes!

P.S. any chance you'll ever add docks similar to the ones in pandahome? or be able to customize icons without going thru bettercut?
[G1 Apps and Games] major c:
Just a thought........

I have an Archos 5 IT - brilliant but even better with your idea as its front end but Archos can't presently see beyond trying to emulate Apple and control the software for revenue.

Couple of points.

1. You need to find a way of revenue generating with direct downloads to devices like mine so I don't have to go through the black world to try things out. I will send you a donation if needs be, but I would rather pay for an official download and updates.

2. With the giant size of the Archos screen it seems obvious to me that you could come up with a different picture for each screen on the cube. I have 4 kids and a wife!

3. How can I put the Archos multimedia radio TV and photo access points as shortcuts?

Your product has even impressed the luddite wife but she was the one who said "can't you put a picture of each of the children on each rolling screen". She and I are both 58!

If you need someone to test things I am well used to NDA's having been the VC behind speech recognition software for 25+ years. Let me know where and I'll send you an email.
[G1 Apps and Games] windstrings:
I agree.. a cool option would be to allow different pics on each page or go as we are now.... if you can't have an option for both... seems having a pic for each screen makes the most sense, since as it is now, we never seem to get centered what we want centered and part and pieces of the picture are on each page with makes any one page "not a complete picture".
[G1 Apps and Games] mknoebel:
Agreed!

I really like GDE, but there are 2 things that I would like to see added:

*A Gmail button for the screen

*Ability to have a different wallpaper for each page
[G1 Apps and Games] AnGeL_WiT_SiNs:
oh man..how can i be so duhh..thanks man..all i had to do was what you said..clear the home defaults and BAM it works..THanks Bro
[G1 Apps and Games] windstrings:
The little app called "home switcher" is way cool for bouncing back and forth so you can get things how you want them.
[G1 Apps and Games] eghoti1:
any chance push IMAP email can be added to the Conversation widget?
[G1 Apps and Games] AnGeL_WiT_SiNs:
i just downloaded the app and its pretty neat..i didnt even know about this app thanks for pointing it out :)
[G1 Apps and Games] MontAlbert:
Rogro,

any chance you could add in the first post a how to for:

Applying themes

Find GDE- maybe a barcode for the market?

I get about 5 emails a day asking "what is GDE?" "where can i get it?", "your theme is broken and wont work (btw what is gde?)"
[G1 Apps and Games] Wysie:
Lol @ Montalbert. Tell me about it!
[G1 Apps and Games] neok44:
i'm loving this. this made me finally leave hero roms now that i can have a dedicated call button on the phone.

anyway, i have a couple issues and then a couple sugestions.

First the issues. On the dock widget, once it's placed it can't be removed. I kept touching it and it never popped off to let me remove it

Other issue is the wallpaper. It seems to be kinda random. 2 screens would be using the same one and then a couple would be using the same image. idk just wierd.

Now for the sugestions

First is for the app drawer. I think that when you open it, the bottom buttoms should be covered or go up with the drawer itself just like in the regular OS. Secondly is i'd like an option for the new 2.1 version with 5x4 apps instead of the 4x4.

Next is for the wallpaper, and idk if this can even be done, But i think it would be awesome, especially with the cube, to be able to set a different wallpaper on each screen. probably not possible, but would be awesome.

anyway, great job and i can't wait to see the updates. and please think about the app drawer sugestions.
[G1 Apps and Games] jhankinson:
It has already been mentioned several times in this forum but long press on the side of the app dock (far left or far right edge) and you will be able to drag it around or trash it.
[G1 Apps and Games] major c:
I've been having a thought about letting me and others with Archos or similar non Android phones, downloading and you getting revenue.

How about requiring a "key" that you send as a SMS to a designated cell phone anywhere in the world? That way you get paid for what really is a great product - much as the Archos mob complains it slows things down a bit.

You will never stop the odd rip-off but that way you get loyalty for updates etc.
[G1 Apps and Games] bkmo:
I concur, at least 5 a day for where can I find gde, and anothr 5 for the flip clock.
[G1 Apps and Games] windstrings:
For those of you who haven't tried cube in fast fling mode lately you have to try it!.. this last update just screams.. I have 5 pages currently and once I get to page 5 I can fling with one swipe all the way to page one and vice versa.. perfectly smooth!...

I wish I knew what got updated with each update....

But one thing for sure, it just gets smoother and smoother... this will certainly make the i-phone users jealous!
[G1 Apps and Games] brucemcl:
I set up a couple of web pages using Google Sites that explain a few simple things about GDE and themes. I list my google sites website in the marketplace as the official site for my apps. You might want to give that a try, perhaps it will cut down on the email queries.
[G1 Apps and Games] MontAlbert:
can i link to these? I already have a link to this thread :D
[G1 Apps and Games] neok44:
hey i just had another idea for the wallpaper thing.

if anything this works for the cube so one wall dosn't randomly have half and half of a wallpaper. You could make it so the wallpaper chooser is in portrat so it can only fit on one screen and there for repeats on each screen. That would make everything a bit cleaner and you wouldn't have to worry about random overlaps
[G1 Apps and Games] benisntfunny:
Is there just a really long scan time for the conversations widget? It seems to be great the first time I use it then it never updates.
[G1 Apps and Games] droidpowers:
gde

i purchased gde but when i install it it says "download unsuccessful"

what can i do to get this to work?????
[G1 Apps and Games] brucemcl:
Sure, go right ahead.

http://software.brucemcl.com/themes
[G1 Apps and Games] MontAlbert:
DAMN! how fast is the cube now!! awesome! now just for faster autoscroll and we are perfect....

also a way to change the wallpaper handler would be good- the person who had the portrait idea had a god idea i reckon.. not sure if it is possible- atm i have set mine so that i have a split screen wallpaper so each consequtive side of the cube has a different pic (well, for 2 anyway).... obviously then it repeats....the 2 attached pics are actually 2 different wallpapers to show how it handles then- you can only have 2 pictures per wallpaper otherwise it wont work.

thanks for the website- i might use it....
[G1 Apps and Games] neok44:
thats a good idea. just take a 640x480 image and toss two 320x480 images in there. As you said it obviously repeats after that, but it's something.
[G1 Apps and Games] brucemcl:
Feel free link to it or to copy any of the tips on your own site. If you can make a theme for GDE you can easily put up a site of your own in Google sites! :-)
[G1 Apps and Games] skeezicks8:
Rogro82, I'll ditto what everyone else is saying: GDE is a fabulous program. I'd just be in heaven if I could 1) replace application icons, a la dxTop and others, and 2) choose any app to go in the toolbar.

Once again, kudos.
[G1 Apps and Games] droidpowers:
gde what a rip off

they took my money but it wont download and they wont fix it '''BEWARE'''
[G1 Apps and Games] Jonno12345:
That'll be the markets fault, not GDE's, don't try and give it a bad name because of that.
[G1 Apps and Games] MontAlbert:
**** mate!! are you for real? the market will not download it until your credit card is okayed.... sometimes a restart help it download but it has nothing to do with the app... and i am assuming you left a bad review on the market due to your own stupidity and the market's ineptness?
[G1 Apps and Games] monkeydog:
The conversation widget only updates when I restart the phone now, I'm fairly positive it constantly updated before the last gde update.
[G1 Apps and Games] Redflea:
I'll try to check mine again later, but the conversation widget is updating w/out a restart for me. I haven't seen the issue you're reporting.

Did you try removing the widget from your home screen, restarting the phone, and then adding it again?
[G1 Apps and Games] monkeydog:
Yeah, I removed it and put it back and it still doesn't update. Neither 4x3 or 4x4 updates itself without a restart for me.

Just tried restarting GDE, instead of the entire phone, and that causes the widget to update also.

I'm running a moto Droid with 2.0.1 if that makes any difference... I noticed it wasn't updating after the last gde update as I said in my last post.
[G1 Apps and Games] roc_droid:
This could be just wishful thinking...

Hello!

Let me first say that I absolutely, without a doubt, LOVE GDE!!! I have tried the other home replacements and ended up uninstalling all of them but this one.

Now, for my wish. Is it technically possible and potentially feasible to have the ability to hide/unhide one of the screens? So, for instance, if you wanted to have one page dedicated to all things not for public consumption, you could hide that page when you're showing off your phone and unhide it again when you want to enjoy it.

Perhaps I'm the only demented person who might need it but I figured I'd ask... ;)

Thanks again for the OUTSTANDING app!