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[G1 Apps and Games] Brainze:
Yeah, I have your Casual Dark theme, but i should have phrased it differently.

I want the ability to completely omit those buttons. Not just hide them, but make them non-existant.
[G1 Apps and Games] davidsspot:
1st issue

I had the problem with the wallpaper not being centered until I found you need to turn off your phone and power back on and now add your wallpaper and it will be centered after that. Seems you only need to do this once after you download GDE or after you update. Hope this is what you were looking for.
[G1 Apps and Games] NetGenSuperstar:
I'll give that a shot. Thanks.

Also, I don't know how, but my custom ringtones seem to be working again. At least, it worked when my mother called yesterday. It seems it may be intermittent, if it's still a problem at all. I'll try to figure it out soon.

EDIT: Your idea works normally, however it's not exactly a proper fix. It leaves vertical black bars on the sides in landscape mode. I guess for the time being, I'll set three screens and just never use any of them. I would like a true fix somehow.
[G1 Apps and Games] 0rsa:
Hi everybody,

I'm sorry if this problem has been already covered but I found on GDE a problem which do that I will not purchase this application.

I've got an Acer liquid and the screen size for widgets is 4*5 (800*480) default. On GDE, i'm losing one line with 4*4 size.

Spaces betweens widgets are too big and my desktop is less beautiful than my default desktop.

So is it possible to do this desktop's size for compatible phones ?

All the other features in GDE are very good and i would like to buy and use it with a 4*5 widget's support.

Thank you !

0rsa

DF: sorry i'm french :cool:
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
Hi Orsa,

I will look into this. Thanks for letting me know!

@davidspot is this with normal wallpapers or with theme wallpapers or both?

@bkmo

Can you try to make a logcat of what happens when you start the dialer and close it? I really want to help you out but havent found anything yet... The default dialer is persistent and will never kill itself unless you are totally running out of memory. I dont know if your modified Dialer is setup the same way and if Android handles it the same as the default dialer.

Rob
[G1 Apps and Games] bkmo:
Will re-install and run a logcat. I get the contacts.apk reload with the stock launcher too it seems, but it only takes 1 or 2 seconds to appear. 25-30 seconds with GDE is a bit too much.

edit: I am attaching the lolcat Funny thing is is that I have no widgets or icons on any GDE screen, but weather widget is still showing up because I have it on the stock launcher screen. I really don't want to delete them because I am forced to go back to stock with this dialer issue.
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
Thanks for the logcat. I will look into it and download the dialer myself to see whats going on.

I have 7 screens full of the weather widget so it should also behave the same on my phone I guess.

Do you have a location where I can download the Dialer? I know Wysie wrote down the link somewhere, but i cant seem to find it this quick.

Is it only the Dialer that gets killed or does returning to GDE also takes a long time?

Have you used DDMS before to see how much memory everything is using to track down what is causing you to run out of memory? As soon as you get the "Low memory" notification you will be sure services and apps will get killed to free memory, but normally it would kill an app like GDE before it kills the Dialer because the dialer should be persistent ( on a stock android phone it is actually the only app that is persistent, so that you can actually use your phone as a phone sometimes ;) ).
[G1 Apps and Games] bkmo:
It is only the dialer it seems. I can get back to home without a reload. I attached a second logcat to my previous post. I will look up wysies contacts link and post it here in a few.

Thanks

here is the link to the Wysie contacts apk latest 2.8 ver. http://www.androidspin.com/downloads.php?dir=wysie/APP/&file=Contacts_wysie_2.8_apk.zip
[G1 Apps and Games] bkmo:
I have DDMS here, but never looked at memory with it. I suppose I can take a look at it a bit later.

Here is a DDMS log. I went into the gallery and swiped through a couple of pictures, and everything begins to die. Contacts gets killed off too.
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
I think i know what happens...

Most providers for phone/sms data are stored in acore if im not mistaking. As soon as you run out of memory acore will get killed and so will your Dialer because it depends on acore ( because of the data providers ).

I will try this theory myself with this dialer but you can see it here:

I/ActivityThread( 2669): Publishing provider com.android.globalsearch.SuggestionProvider: com.android.globalsearch.SuggestionProvider

I/ActivityThread( 2669): Publishing provider com.android.launcher.settings: com.android.launcher.LauncherProvider

I/ActivityThread( 2669): Publishing provider com.google.android.providers.enhancedgooglesearch: com.google.android.providers.enhancedgooglesearch.SuggestionProvider

I/ActivityThread( 2669): Publishing provider user_dictionary: com.android.providers.userdictionary.UserDictionaryProvider

I/ActivityThread( 2669): Publishing provider com.android.globalsearch.stats: com.android.globalsearch.StatsProvider

I/ActivityThread( 2669): Publishing provider contacts;call_log: com.android.providers.contacts.GoogleContactsProvider

I/ActivityThread( 2669): Publishing provider applications: com.android.providers.applications.ApplicationsProvider

I/ActivityThread( 2669): Publishing provider com.android.googlesearch.SuggestionProvider: com.android.googlesearch.SuggestionProvider

Before the dialer starts it also needs to restart all the providers needed which are in other packages ( like acore ) and because you are so low on memory it will kill these packages when you are not using the Dialer.

I will go search back a few pages to search for Wysies GIT repository and look if his Dialer package is set to persistent-mode. This could be the answer to your problem, but it will mean other apps ( instead of the dialer will get killed because it really needs to free up memory ).
[G1 Apps and Games] bkmo:
I don't care what gets killed off except I want to be able to make a phone call without having to wait 20-30 seconds for the app to show up. Why does it load in just 1-3 seconds with the default launcher, and take 20-30 with GDE?
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
Because you are using just a bit more memory... thats why i would suggest using DDMS and look at sysinfo->memory and see what is eating up memory without doing anything and how much memory is still free.

You can also see what happens when you start the Dialer to see what apps are needed.

Ill still look into the git though.

To be clear... I can imagine you dont want to wait 20 secs for a dialer... I also wouldnt, but I have no influence on packages being reclaimed by androids low memory killer. All I can do is try to help you out on this.
[G1 Apps and Games] detox07:
I love this app, it is amazing, but I just can't get past the lack of high resolution menu skin, when I use the default Moto Droid home setup it is crisp, clear and beautiful.

When I use the GDE it is practical, useful and convienient, but lacks the beauty of the crisp-ness of the default moto droid home setup.

Maybe consider changing the textures of GDE home to high resolution textures, atm, I've switched back to the moto droid just cause it's prettier, but I do LOVE this app, and I'm going to continue getting updates until i see high resolution pretiness
[G1 Apps and Games] bkmo:
You know I always thought this started happening when you began to do updates to fix issues on the droid. But at the same time I think Cyanogen began to backport Eclair api's and framework into his Donut roms. This is when memory issues started, and programs started to get killed. I am going to load a stock Donut rom again like Dwang's to see how well it works. It looks to me this memory issue is in all Eclair roms built from AOSP too. We are going to have to wait and see when the OTA updates hit.
[G1 Apps and Games] 2girls1cup:
so what dialer.apk do you recommend? Do you think the standard eclair dialer.apk will have the same delay problems?
[G1 Apps and Games] bkmo:
I loaded a Dwang based stock donut based rom to see what the difference would be from the donut/eclair blends that I have been using. Now the contacts

app stays loaded when returning from the gallery and browser. I do now at times get a 10 second reload of GDE and a FC/Wait. This rom does not have the keep home app in memory option. Doesn't seem to be a happy medium, but this is better than waiting up to 30 seconds to dial the phone. :o
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
Does the rom has Spare parts? Then you could set it to remain in memory manually.

Else you can always try to find whats killing GDE by looking at logcat. At least we are one step closer ;)
[G1 Apps and Games] Toxen:
I would love to see 5 row home screens instead of the currently 4 rows. I'm on a WVGA device and 4 rows leave so much space between the icons and widgets.

It would be neat if this was fixed :)
[G1 Apps and Games] M..N:
Hi im just wondering if it can be made so the action can be moved around e.g. menu on th right, add in middle etc.

Thanks.
[G1 Apps and Games] brucemcl:
I don't have a Droid but I make GDE themes. I can confirm that we use lower resolution graphics than the Droid screen size.

I think what Android is encouraging developers to do in this situation is to include separate graphics for different resolutions. It would probably take a lot of work for GDE's developer to add this functionality. Then it would be work for me to add the extra graphics to my themes.

Having said all that, I think it is a reasonable feature to ask for. If this is added and new theme templates are published, I will upgrade my themes.
[G1 Apps and Games] roc_droid:
Did somebody say animations?

I noticed the change log states that 0.2.0.6 contained basic animations and more would be added. What are these animations and how do I access them?
[G1 Apps and Games] nakeman:
do you notice the jumping icon when you pressing it?
[G1 Apps and Games] roc_droid:
Can't say that I do. Are you saying the icons on the app dock are supposed to jump when I press them?
[G1 Apps and Games] Zoide_:
Any chance of adding Gmail to the soft buttons at the bottom left/right?

Thanks
[G1 Apps and Games] grooves12:
In the app dock when I hit the icon to change from list to icon view, all of the icons disappear. If I go back and then return to that menu they are visible in the new view.

This is on a droid.
[G1 Apps and Games] nakeman:
sorry for my english^~^;

the animate effect is not shown on app dock.. whereas the icons sit on the desktop screens (area outside app. dock) should jump up & down like rebounding when you pressing it.

it is stock without any change of setting in GDE.
[G1 Apps and Games] petrochemicals:
Any answer on this? Anyone.
[G1 Apps and Games] brucemcl:
What kind of phone, what OS are you running.

Long press on desktop > Widgets > Search Widget does not work for you?
[G1 Apps and Games] eminembdg:
I know what you're talking about, I think. Ever since the Donut 1.6 update that simple box is now replaced with the new version of search where that box and search results list pops up.

I believe that's what you mean. So there is no way around that drop down list popping up. Its the new enhanced search of Donut 1.6
[G1 Apps and Games] Zoide_:
I restarted my phone, and even upgraded it by flashing the new CyanogenMod 4.2.1 instead of 4.1.9999. However, I still can't see any icons in "All applications". :(
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
Do you know how to create a logcat? I am sure we can both solve this problem. If you can get me a logcat of when you restart GDE i can look into what is going wrong.
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
Building the new "Menu settings" screen at the moment... you will all be able to configure the hard-menu button as you wish tomorrow!
[G1 Apps and Games] Zoide_:
Here's the logcat from the moment I open GDE to the moment I tap on "All applications":

I/ActivityManager( 154): Starting activity: Intent { act=android.intent.action.

MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.HOME] flg=0x13a00000 cmp=com.rogro.gde/.GDE }

I/ActivityManager( 154): Start proc com.rogro.gde for activity com.rogro.gde/.G

DE: pid=1461 uid=10091 gids={1015}

D/dalvikvm( 1461): GC(2) freed 1659 objects / 138256 bytes in 70ms

D/dalvikvm( 1461): GC(2) freed 732 objects / 66192 bytes in 72ms

D/RestoreState( 1461): Set currentscreen to 2

I/ActivityManager( 154): Process com.android.settings (pid 1449) has died.

D/dalvikvm( 1461): GC(2) freed 2974 objects / 171784 bytes in 270ms

W/ActivityManager( 154): Launch timeout has expired, giving up wake lock!

D/NetworkLocationProvider( 154): onCellLocationChanged [5033,30101]

W/ActivityManager( 154): Activity idle timeout for HistoryRecord{43ad5a40 com.r

ogro.gde/.GDE}

W/AppWidgetHostView( 1461): can't inflate defaultView because mInfo is missing

D/dalvikvm( 1461): GC(2) freed 4283 objects / 244368 bytes in 137ms

D/dalvikvm( 1461): GC(2) freed 2030 objects / 169632 bytes in 81ms

I/ActivityManager( 154): Displayed activity com.rogro.gde/.GDE: 13370 ms (total

13370 ms)

D/dalvikvm( 1397): GC(0) freed 10353 objects / 564656 bytes in 86ms

D/dalvikvm( 372): GC(1) freed 3661 objects / 186880 bytes in 272ms

D/MenuView( 1461): Error while loading menu: null
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
How many apps do you have installed?
[G1 Apps and Games] Zoide_:
I have 53 apps. Is that too much?
[G1 Apps and Games] Zoide_:
It works now, I know what happened!

It turns out I had installed an app from the Market called dir.cr (http://www.cyrket.com/package/cr.dir.android). For some reason, the icon for that app has no title in the standard launcher. I guess your launcher tried to read the empty string and that's what made it fail to load.

I uninstalled dir.cr and now I can see my apps in GDE.

BTW: I like the four-column drawer with the nice big icons. However, when I flick my finger to move through the icons, the motion is much choppier than on the five-column drawer that comes by default on CyanogenMod 4.2.1.
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
No... it has been tested with 203 apps by overground, so 53 shouldnt be too much by far...

I am going to add some extra logging to the "All applications" menu to see what is going wrong in your case...

Did you try to reinstall GDE? maybe that could be the first option.

I have had one person who experienced a problem after an update... He totally got a wrong image on the drag handle while noone else had this. I was using the same version and there was no way that that image should show up there.... only difference was that the first version he installed wasnt zipaligned ( a tool from the android sdk which optimizes the apk ).

After he uninstalled and reinstalled somehow everything was ok on this matter....
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
Thanks for the info! i will check this asap and release an update!

edit:

I will look into the grid performance... somehow the list ( which actually has to do more like section setup etc ) is faster then the grid.
[G1 Apps and Games] Zoide_:
Please see my post above, it works now ;)
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
Ive seen that, but it should work no matter what... so i am downloading dir.cr at the moment to see what is going wrong when an app with no title is in the app tray.
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
Found the problem... it was in the listviews Section indexer which takes the first letter of all apps to create the scrollhandle sections... but with a nameless app getting the first letter is pretty hard ;)

Will fix it right away and will post up a new update 0.1.1
[G1 Apps and Games] kron2:
sorry i thought you were referring to the background in the app menu one of the images is a theme stericson did. i think he still did it by editing the 9.png with the draw9patch tool. that is how i did it but i have never gone total transparent
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
I was referring to the app menu background... never knew it could be done.

In GDE everything can be transparent. I will have to address some things when i will round up the theming framework, but graphically it should be a problem....

I must say that i absolutely dont know what is editable in other home replacements, but i will look into what is possible in those and then try to beat that.

Edit:

Tomorrow morning both the stretch and the fade transitions will also be enabled with the endless scroll, meaning you can go from the last to the first screen and vice versa.
[G1 Apps and Games] kron2:
the two i like are cube and fade. be nice to go back to the start in one endless scroll, i have themed open home and ahome and dxtop all the images in all them can be changed
[G1 Apps and Games] Zoide_:
Thanks rogro82, the fix for apps with blank names worked :)

A few suggestions:

1) A tag-based way of managing folders such as the excellent Apps Organizer (http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.google.code.appsorganizer)

2) Making it so that programs that are moved to a folder disappear from the main Applications list. This way you don't have duplicates and you remove clutter from the applications list, which is the whole point of having folders IMO.

3) Alphabetical sorting of icons within folders

4) If you place a widget on one of the screens and then uninstall the program related to the widget (e.g. Touchdown Calendar), the widget simply disappears but it still takes up space. The only way to get rid of it is to long-press in the invisible section and drag it to the trash can. In the default CyanogenMod launcher, the widget is represented as a gray rectangle that says something like "Problem loading widget". This is preferable as the user can clearly see that there is something there and that it no longer works.
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
@zoide... i will look into issue 4. and will keep all your suggestions in mind... thanks

@kron2: only the images? is there nothing else you can do? text sizes/font colors etc?
[G1 Apps and Games] kron2:
in open home you can change font and text color from the menu i am not shure about ahome or dxtop
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
I'm having fun now.. :D http://degenerates.110mb.com/GDE.gif

Things I'd like to see in the theme framework:

Support for zipped themes straight off the FAT32 partition of the sdcard.. the same way "Weather Widget - Donate" does it. That way all your themes persist across a wipe or upgrade.

Wallpaper options.. Support for wider images to wrap round the whole cube, or ability to apply a different wallpaper to each face.

Easy way to change font colours and sizes.. Either as options within the interface, or through a plain (unencrypted) xml in the theme zip file.. maybe both?

I'm sure I'll think of more later. :cool:
[G1 Apps and Games] Wysie:
rogro82: As I said in an earlier post, the transparency for widgets that make use of transparency (weird phrasing I know :P) seems to be off. A good example is to use Pure Calendar Widget by Koxx, select Light Grey for the skin colour, you'll find it's much darker. I also noticed this does NOT happen with "Normal" transition, only with Cube,Stretch and Fade. Could you please look into it? Thank you.

I also noticed that whenever I changed to icon view, and after a restart or force close of GDE :X, it goes back to list view. Possible to save it soon? :)

Edit: I took screenshots and realized the background is different (different parts of the same wallpaper) when I'm using Cube vs Normal, thus leading me to believe it was less transparent, so sorry. I think it's the background and not the transparency.
[G1 Apps and Games] brucemcl:
Animations

The version of GDE before the animations, 0.2.0.5, was the best one in a long time. GDE stayed in memory on my phone almost all the time. Now with the latest version it unloads a lot. When I quit an app I have to look at a black screen for 10 seconds or more for GDE to open again.

If the animations are causing a larger memory footprint for GDE, I'd rather not have them.

myTouch 3G, stock Android 1.6
[G1 Apps and Games] TheReaperUK:
I have found that updating GDE to a newer version over the top of an older version sometimes cause's the black screen pause of upto 40 seconds when leaving from some apps (Market and browser most common) and having the force close/wait dialog.

But if i uninstall GDE then reboot phone then reinstall newer version of GDE i don't have the problem, on the new-ist version the longest i had to wait is about 6-8 seconds with no force close/wait dialog, the only problem with this idea, is you have to setup all your screens/widgets/icons/etc again.

Hope that maybe of some help to some of you.

P.S. I'm running beautiful widgets with the Left 4 Dead clock skin, and a left 4 dead wallpaper, can one of the master themers make a cool left 4 dead theme please.
[G1 Apps and Games] martonic:
how to use dock, conversation widgets?

Hi! I got gde 0.2.0.6 on my Samsung Moment. I like it a lot! But I have a couple of questions. I am sure they are answered above but it is hard to search and impossible to read 139 pages!

1) What is the "conversation widget" - what does it do? I tried loading it onto an empty page but it never did anything for me.

2) Application dock - same question. I could not figure out what you can do with it. What does it do?

Thanks! :D
[G1 Apps and Games] TheReaperUK:
how to use dock, conversation widgets?

The Answer:

1) It show's some call logs and text messages.

2) You drop and drag icons/apps from the pull up menu into the app dock.

Hope that helps.
[G1 Apps and Games] PaulGiz:
I wasn't getting this kind of epic lag, but things were starting to get slow, so I drew a map of my desktops, trashed all of my shortcuts and widgets then uninstalled GDE.

Restarted, reinstalled, set everything back and, lo and behold, back to snappy. Just confirming above post for anybody in that boat.

P.
[G1 Apps and Games] MontAlbert:
just wondering if there was any news on support for live wallpapers yet?

thanks
[G1 Apps and Games] eminembdg:
either the devs are very busy with other stuff in their life or busy working on GDE but there's been barley any activity from them in this forum

Over the last few weeks I've been having so much lag and FC's that I dont' even use GDE anymore. Still have it installed but it's not my default. I've been using Home++ and it's been very very fast and stable and not one single FC. Only thing that sucks is there are no themes and of course no Cube transition. But IDC because at least my phone operates now. I can actually go to my call log and dialer without having to wait for up to 15 seconds!

Seems at least to me, GDE is no longer goin to be used by me. Just too many issues. The cube effect is that great that I want to deal with FC's and long waits and black screens. Sorry GDE
[G1 Apps and Games] kron2:
wondering the same thing gde is fast on my nexus just need live wallpaper support and would be nice if we had a option to have no settings on the home screen
[G1 Apps and Games] brucemcl:
Same here. Home++ has been fast and stable for me as well.

I agree, it's too bad. I think the dev is trying to do too much with GDE. My advice is to cut back the home page animation, get rid of the stretch animation, and then stop development. Leave GDE for the older phones and start a new home screen replacement with better graphics and more animation for the newer, bigger, more powerful phones.

On the other hand, people are still downloading my GDE themes, so some people must like it and continue to use it.