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[G1 Apps and Games] Klyentel:
Yeah..people like me. I love GDE, best dam homscreen out if you ask me, I have Home++ as well, but it doesn't seem as snappy as it used to, I have to press hard to drag screens over, on GDE with one light touch the cube turns, two light touches the cube turns twice, One long stroke of the the thumb.....that sucker does 360's, LOL:D

And there is no lag coming to and from the call log and other applications, I don't know what rom you guys use or what swap settings you have (if you use G1), but uuhh...GDE has been working perfectly fine even with the updates, its been my default home for about 2 months now, I usually only switch to Home ++ when Im bored. Home ++ doesn't have theming capability, an application dock, a control panel, or an option for sub-folder menus....GDE does, so its more enhancements to it other than animations and themes.
[G1 Apps and Games] MontAlbert:
i have no lag issues at all on my magic nor my nexus One but i really like the live wallpapers for nexus one- i know dxtop now supports them and am hoping GDE can start supporting them somehow....
[G1 Apps and Games] astokes:
I too switched to Home++ a while a go, GDE is just too laggy for me now, Home++ runs smooth for me, even OpenHome runs way smoother.
[G1 Apps and Games] Calakato:
GDE has been running great for me and so has Home ++, of course im overclocked to 950 at the moment. What I would really like to see is GDE get the powerbar from Home ++
[G1 Apps and Games] sun_of_a_gun:
GDE running on Raphael ?

I know that we are talking about GDE as a G1 app ... is there a chance to run GDE on a HTC Touch Pro (Raphael) with Android ?

see http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=601751

Thx in advance for a short feedback
[G1 Apps and Games] acyd:
Well, the last update to GDE pretty much bricked my Eris. Downloaded from market, install was successful. After clicking home button, GDE threw me into a force close loop..

Did the pull battery/ restart few times - phone wouldn't load past the HTC screen.

Finally decided to do a hard reset to factory settings, first thing installed from the market was GDE again and the same force close loop on a fresh 1.5. So I guess back to Sense for me until an update is issued.

:confused::confused:
[G1 Apps and Games] ten2o3:
wallpaper sizing

with the last update on 2/11, on my moto droid: when I go to my wallpaper gallery and select an image to "set as wallpaper" it brings up the image/pic with the resizing/selection box. (as it should) However, now the box is a wide short rectangle. Previously it was a square. This rectangle doesn't allow you to select enough of an image to really tell what it is, and it stretches it to fit the screen and the image becomes pixelized.

Otherwise it has been running beautifully, very smooth. great job!

The only other thing I would like to see is endless scroll with 'normal' screen transition

Thanks
[G1 Apps and Games] itype2slo:
Same problem here. All my wallpapers were out of whack. Also, when I try to update the wallpaper it threw the phone into a boot loop. I had to do a nandroid backup and go back to the previous version.
[G1 Apps and Games] luka-70-:
maybe a little offtopic question for developers...i really like gde home...best one for sure...but i was wondering if there is going to be more transitions because i love them :D like you turn the page over or roll a ball or something? :)
[G1 Apps and Games] krysalicea:
GDE thems and desktop

I really enjoy this app the only issue I have is I try to put shortcuts or widgets on ny desktop and it won't work. I have tried long pressing I have tried doing it from the menu it self. Also another thing I changed the theme on my gde but everytime I turn my phone off and on it goes back to the default theme is there anyway of getting these issues fixed? I have a samsung moment thank you.
[G1 Apps and Games] paranoid2007:
I have one request for this very nice home app:

Could the browser link be changed so that it doesn't always open the google site in the browser, but just switches to the browser. Mostly, I don't want to go to google, but want to view a previously opened site.
[G1 Apps and Games] htcmagic:
running ver 2.0.9 on nexus with no problems. I had open home latest and i had the odd fc here and then. Home++ sometimes apps tray crashes.

GDE is perfect though.
[G1 Apps and Games] nakeman:
so where is Rogro82? missing him much.
[G1 Apps and Games] brucemcl:
It seems like he's getting more reclusive. No recent posts or activity on his account. Not even release notes published for 2.0.9...
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
Hi,

I’d like to work with you to allow developers to make scrollable widgets in 3rd party apps.

I think it would be a great improvement for your Home application.

I’ll be able to add a support for all ‘Pure widgets’ serie.

I hope you’ll be interesting by my suggestion.

ciao,

Francois
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
... is the dev still alive ?
[G1 Apps and Games] j8971:
Searching for Three Days…I'm Not Kidding

Does anyone have the .apk for Hero Theme thaat you could upload to me. I know asking this question makes me look like a noob. Unfortunately I have searched xda and google to only find no help. I have searched for three days unsuccessfully trying to get this theme from the all market sites where it was available. I scanned all barcodes, but no progress. The market continues to tell me that there are no matches for pname: com.deejay.Hero. I would be so grateful if someone could load the file here.:o

Thank you.
[G1 Apps and Games] brucemcl:
I found it in the Market on my phone by searching for

GDE Hero
[G1 Apps and Games] camcrobe:
GDE theme request (smoked glass)

love GDE, as noted by others in this thread, there are too few high-res GDE skins that look good on the droid (i use the Hero espresso, and recently obsidian skins). I've spent many hours trying to make my own (as per OP), but eclipse/sdk do not play happy with my mac.

I'm hoping someone (smarter than I) might be able to put together a "smoked glass theme" launcher for GDE to look like the themed 2.1 launchers that are out there (but are way too buggy for my likes).

A pic of one of the smoked glass themed 2.1 launchers (included in AdamZ's ROM) is attached.

My guess is that such a theme would be a hit in the market.
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
I created the Obsidian skin back in the early days of GDE and I'm sorry to see that the market is now mostly flooded with crap skins that don't do this brilliant app justice. It deserves better than a plague of sports themed skins and hack-jobs.

In the coming days/weeks I'm going to be releasing an updated version of Obsidian and several more crisp (including hi-res for droid), professional looking skins to really make this app shine. These will probably be released on the market for a small and very reasonable fee to cover my time spent creating them.

I'll post here when the new skins go up. :cool:

BTW: People having lag issues with GDE, I wonder if the problem isn't your base rom?? GDE actually runs faster than the stock home app on my G1 and has for some time. If you're running GDE on a 2.x based rom you're always going to have issues, Eclair is just too much of a memory hog for the G1. I did a lot of work trying to get 2.0 going well but we just don't have the resources. imho we should just stick to 1.6 on this device.
[G1 Apps and Games] nakeman:
thanks for your skin and i've been using it for a period of time.
[G1 Apps and Games] protomanez:
I love your skin >:P can't wait to see more
[G1 Apps and Games] undefined1:
hey there. how do install gde to the g1??????
[G1 Apps and Games] mastermind777:
I like the Conversations widget, but do you think you can include Google Voice notices in it? I don't really use the main SMS, so a way to show Google Voice SMS/calls would be nice.
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
Obsidian 2.0 and the counterpart Porcelain are up on the market, get them while they're fresh! Just search "goldenarmZ".

The new themes include a couple of fixes from Obsidian 1.0, New wallpaper in standard and hi-res editions, and a custom matching clock widget for each skin. I hope you will consider this worth the small fee I'm asking. :cool: I'm trying to raise the bar for GDE themes here but I can't afford to put much time in for free, I hope you all understand.

Thanks to all the people who installed and enjoyed the original Obsidian skin, I hope you enjoy it enough to upgrade!

More quality themes will be coming very soon!
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
I'm working on a theme similar to this right now.. Keep checking the thread. :D

Thanks to the people that have downloaded Obsidian and Porcelain so far! :cool: I'll be adding 4x3 clock widgets to these in the next couple of days, you should receive them as updates through the market.
[G1 Apps and Games] nakeman:
i would like to try the theme 2.0, but i cannot find it in market, would you please provide another link? Thanks

sorry for my english.
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
You should be able to use these QRcodes with the barcode scanner to jump straight to it...

Obsidian:

If that doesn't work, try this link on your phone browser:

market://search?q=pname:com.goldenarmZ.obsidian2

Porcelain:

market://search?q=pname:com.goldenarmZ.porcelain

Hope this helps.
[G1 Apps and Games] Tao+:
So I purchased gde, but the download keeps failing. Is there something wrong with it or anything. I really wanna use this apparently, but it won't download. I also have pandahome if that's a problem.. can someone help?
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
Dunno.. I've only ever had failed downloads due to a poor 3g signal. Maybe you're out of storage space if you aren't using a2sd?
[G1 Apps and Games] Tao+:
Nope. I have good signal. An a2sd? What's that. I realty want this apparently to work. I tried deleting pandahome and even emailed the developer but he didn't reply. 3 days ago.
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
Yea rogro/miromind seems to be AWOL at the moment.. He hasn't replied to my email either.

a2sd = apps to SD card.. It moves all your apps over to a partition of your memory card, giving you loads of free space. Go into your phone settings, then "SD card & phone storage" and see how much space you have listed under "Internal phone storage".. Thats the only reason I can think of why the download would fail. :confused:
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
In other news.. I should have another skin up tomorrow or the day after. Here's a sneak preview of where I'm heading with it:

It's a massive pain in the arse redrawing all the icons for standard and hdpi, but I'm sick of seeing badly resized graphics on skins.. they offend my eyes.
[G1 Apps and Games] camcrobe:
Awesome. Saw the screen in the post above.
[G1 Apps and Games] jongie123:
Nice,clean and simple.
[G1 Apps and Games] manthar:
information

Hi,

I presentely use a Htc Dream from Rogers. I don't find the GDE in the market I want to know if it's normal?????

Thanks
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
New theme "Bokeh" now in the market. Enjoy. :D

This includes standard and high-dpi versions of pretty much every component, which doubled my work load but should pay off for people using these devices. All my themes will be designed this way in future.

This also includes both 2x2 and 4x3 clock widgets and 2 new wallpapers.
[G1 Apps and Games] Zoide_:
It's probably due to country restrictions in Market. Search for "Market Enabler" in Google. It's a program that lets you download paid Market apps from other countries.
[G1 Apps and Games] Thibor69:
Is there any way to download these themes in USA (via any source) other then using Market Enabler ? Market Enabler does not work well at all.

Why wouldn't they allow them on the USA market ?
[G1 Apps and Games] destinydmm:
First, this app is great, love that you git live wall papers working on it.

Do you plan on, more importantly, will you be adding scrren tabs to gde? Like w/ the 2.1 launcher? Or even better the pinch-to-zoom panel like on the htc incredible?

thanks for your time, and again love Gde!!!!
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
They should be working fine in the USA, most of my downloads so far are from that region. :confused: Are other paid apps showing up for you?
[G1 Apps and Games] nakeman:
just FYI;

my location is HK, and none of them shown in Android Market (ie: search"goldenarmZ" >> result=0) :(
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
Meh, that sucks.. My apps are enabled for all regions. :(

Doesn't market enabler work for you?
[G1 Apps and Games] Thibor69:
Yes other paid apps are showing up for both US dollars and UK lbs. But when I search for ANYTHING of yours, nothing comes up.
[G1 Apps and Games] wpbcubsfan:
There's an issue with the MyTouch Fender and 3.5mm editions not seeing all the payed apps. I can't see any of these themes. :(
[G1 Apps and Games] Thibor69:
FYI- MarketEnabler works for a VERY FEW amount of people on specifiec phones/carriers. All I get is the same old error: "We Got A Problem Huston"

Location: USA

Phone: MyTouch G2 w/ANDROID (1.6 i think)

SAPPHIRE PVT 32A SHIP S-ON G

Carrier: T-Mobile
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
I wish I knew what was causing this issue.. I've flagged the "all regions" option so as long as you're all using at least 1.6, my stuff should show up. :(
[G1 Apps and Games] camcrobe:
I paid for, downloaded Bokeh from Market and installed (on droid). Unfortunately, after installation all of the folder icons I have on my desktop now appear as white dots. Even when putting a new folder on the desktop it appears as a white dot (even after restart). Can you please fix -- Although I love the this would be a deal breaker and I will likely refund.
[G1 Apps and Games] plugged_in_now:
Anyone know if the developer is still working on this? It seems like its been a really long time since any updates and I haven't heard of more to come.

Any ideas?
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
I'm not sure what's happened to him.. There was an update a couple of weeks ago but he's not been on these forums since January. I'm assuming he's still working on it quietly but he seems to ignore the miromind email address. :confused:
[G1 Apps and Games] jhankinson:
Yeah, no forum posts by the dev in over a month. We miss you rogro82, come back!

Also I have been having some FC issues with GDE I was thinking of uninstalling and reinstalling the app. Does anyone know if I can back up my desktop config or will I have to redo everything from scratch? Also should I uninstall my themes first or will it be fine to just leave them installed while I reinstall GDE?

Thanks.
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
I don't think you can backup your desktop config.. but the themes are standalone apps so you should be fine to leave them installed.

Before you reinstall just try turning off sensor based rotation.. I think it causes problems for some people.
[G1 Apps and Games] camcrobe:
Thanks goldenarmZ for the update of Bokeh. All is well now. Nicest GDE theme out there
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
You're welcome.

Another new one coming soon: Digit

I've got a feeling this one might be quite popular. :D
[G1 Apps and Games] Drybonz:
Have been trying to download this through the market for the last several days. Download is always unsuccessful. Posted about it on the Google Help forums as well.

*edit* Actually, from what I'm reading on the last couple pages it sounds like the author is not responding to emails/updating the app. I'm gonna stop trying to purchase the app. Thanks for the info.
[G1 Apps and Games] luka-70-:
Goldenarmz... why dont you post your themes here in this thread so we can download it from here ...its 5 minutes for you and it makes our lives a lot easier :-)
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
...yeah, but it also means I can't get paid.. :rolleyes: I feel like a total arse saying that, but I spend a lot of time on these themes, it's only fair really. ;)
[G1 Apps and Games] eminembdg:
It is fair to get paid for work.

Although I feel 1.50 pounds , which comes to I think almost 2 bucks american is a lil pricey for a theme.

That's just my opinion tho...
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
For at least 8-10 hours work per theme plus custom clocks and original wallpapers designed for each theme, I don't think it's too much to ask for less than the price of a beer. :cool: I could probably reduce the price a bit if google didn't take a 30% slice of everything, but meh.. that's google.
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
"Digit" is now in the market!

Includes my now standard features: 2 original wallpapers, 2 sizes of clock widget and standard + hdpi versions of everything. Hope you like it. :D
[G1 Apps and Games] wpbcubsfan:
I assume you have this as a protected app? Mytouch Fender/1.2 users can't access protected apps in the Market (thanks T-Mobile and Google!). Since we all know that Google's copyright protection is worthless to root users, could you possibly remove the protection so that we could access them in the Market?
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
Ah right, I didn't realise that was the problem. I'll remove it. It makes the apps huge anyway.
[G1 Apps and Games] eminembdg:
Trust me, like I said, I understand charging for your work. I really do. I have lots of paid for apps.

I was just stating, like I also said, my opinion. It's just that the price of your theme is around half the price of the entire GDE app itself.

But really bro, I understand that TMO takes 30%, and I'm not arguing you getting paid for your work at all. Was just my opinion.

And by the way, I think your work is great! Your themes are very nice looking. And when I do have the extra several bucks to buy them, I most def will!

Peace
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
Thanks :D Always nice to get good feedback.
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
I've just uploaded "legacy" versions of all my themes to the market. These are built specifically for people stuck with 1.5 devices after I had a few requests to this effect.

Hopefully all the issues are gone and everyone can see my stuff now..??
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
New in the market: "Sicko"

You get the idea by now.. hdpi, 2 clocks, all that jazz. I think this is my best yet :D
[G1 Apps and Games] moosc:
will the next update include the new app draw?
[G1 Apps and Games] tsouza:
Hello,

I don't know if this has been already mentioned. But a really nice feature would be the ability to remove (or change color/transparency) of icon's labels...

Regards,

Thiago Souza
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
Yea I'd love that, they get in the way of my themes. I'll add it to my list of suggestions to improve the theme framework, if rogro82 ever resurfaces. :(
[G1 Apps and Games] nakeman:
so no one know where had he been?:(
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
Nope :(

Just out of interest.. can you see my themes since I removed the protection?
[G1 Apps and Games] nakeman:
no, i think i need the market enabler to do it. but i did not try it yet.;)
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
im still alive, but at the moment spending 100% of the time into a complete new build.

Almost 99% is rewritten or changed in some way. It is taking a lot of time, but eventually i hope i can make it the most stable app on the market.

So my apologies if i havent been able to answer any calls lately, but i hope i will have some time very soon to be online in here a lot more..

As soon as the new build is fully ready i will start looking into new feature requests / changes etc.
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
Great to see you back! If you're working on an entirely new build, the issue I needed to speak to you about might now be irrelevant, but I've got some ideas for improving the theme framework when you've got a minute. :cool:
[G1 Apps and Games] nakeman:
Wow i miss you man~~:D
[G1 Apps and Games] overground:
Almost there, just some fine tuning and bug hunting. Probably not more than 2 days till release. I think everyone will be happy. Thanks for being patient, everyone...it'll be worth it. :D
[G1 Apps and Games] eminembdg:
So will this show up as just a regular update in the Android Market for GDE?
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
I've come to realise that there is a thirst in the market for fresh, original themes.. I think a lot of people are sick of seeing the same few ideas recycled into almost every theme out there. Clean, glossy, minimal themes are all well and good, but they're not for everyone.. So with my next release I'm bringing something very different to the table. Don't be scared... ;)

These are just renders from illustrator at the moment so they may change a bit once I get them into eclipse and start testing, but I'm sure you get the idea:

F*ck minimal. :cool:
[G1 Apps and Games] magpie2000k:
Hiya this is great news love GDE.

would it be any use for any of us to help you test for bugs etc.

I would be more than happy to voluanteer

Any help we can be just ask Im sure there would be a queue of people If I can help send me a pm or email jont93@googlemail.com
[G1 Apps and Games] brucemcl:
I agree, there are sooo many what I would call sci-fi type themes out there. Good to see you exploring a different look - kind of a skate punk look as I see it. Maybe that's because I watched Dogtown Z-Boys last weekend.

I also appreciate the work you are doing in supporting the larger screen sizes. What a pain to have to release two different apps per theme! I hope that somehow large screen support can get folded into the default GDE template.
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
That's what I'd call it too :) I love the grungy punk style of artwork.

I'm going to be exploring a lot of different styles in coming themes, hopefully bringing something for everyone.

Actually, my themes do include standard and hdpi versions in the same package.. I just release the second version for cupcake users as their devices wont accept packages with an hdpi folder. The cupcake versions are really just a repack with a few small edits. :cool:I do still have to draw most things twice for the 2 screen sizes though.. :rolleyes: I'm moving to illustrator rather than photoshop now to try and simplify that process.. hopefully i can get a smoother workflow going by using vectors and just rendering to 2 sizes at the end.
[G1 Apps and Games] brucemcl:
You may have inspired me to do a Pop Art style theme next. My Bubbles Yellow and Bubbles Magenta themes were small steps in that direction.

Could you release a template for how you do the HDPI folder? I don't think I can figure all of that out on my own.
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
@bruceml

ill soon release a theme template to show you how to add hdpi support ( its basically adding a drawable-hdpi folder with all the drawables duplicated in high-res )

@everyone

The new update (0.3.0.1) is in the market and the first post is updated with some of the changes. Please let me know if you have any issues.
[G1 Apps and Games] TheReaperUK:
Update 0.3.0.1?

Updated to 0.3.0.1 on my stock 1.6 vodafone htc magic, now it seems to be a lot more laggey when using the old cube transition and the apps draw sometimes freeze's for about 2 to 8 seconds before i can scroll up/down, and gde is using about 5 meg more memory then the old 0.2.0.9.

Have uninstalled gde then rebooted my phone, reinstalled gde but its still the same, is it possible to go back to 0.2.0.9 version that was prefect on my magic.

Sorry for bad news rogro82 but it made my phone look and feel horrid.
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
Can you tell me your exact setup? ( number of screens, transition etc )

I am running it on both a rooted G1 and a bone stock G2 and have none of these issues and my memory usage is 4Mb lower on the G1 compared to 0.2.0.9

Can you try some other transitions to see if maybe your problem is related to one specifically?
[G1 Apps and Games] NetGenSuperstar:
I'm happy with the new update overall, but one thing annoys me about it. The application drawer used to allow me to drag it up from the bottom and back again. Now, it only opens if I tap the button, and only closes if I tap it again. I'd like it if the app drawer worked the way it used to. Otherwise, it's great.
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
@NetGenSuperstar

It has been removed because of some technical reasons so now indeed it opens using the soft/hard menu button.

To make this less painfull you are now able to choose the animation it uses to show the drawer coming up in the appearance settings. ;)