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[Nexus One Themes and Apps] DocRambone:
WOW, NICE, big thanks :)

Can't wait to try :)

Edit, easy to theme to:
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] psouza4:
Looks great and even works great, except that every single shortcut I try to launch from HelixLauncher2 causes it to force close. Starting a shortcut from the 3D app drawer works fine, though.

All of the widgits load, wallpapers, etc. Using the latest HelixLauncher2 downloaded today through the Market.

Using a rooted Motorola Droid w/2.1 firmware (via DroidMod) and no other home replacement installed. Have restarted, but still force close on launch. Have even turned down MinFreeManager to default in case it was leeching HelixLauncher2's RAM, but no help.

Anyone have ideas before I uninstall?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] jraggio:
After donating how do we get a password for the donation section? Does it come in mail after arctu sees the paypal payment, or am I supposed to contact arctu in some way? I like the sound of the changes in beta 1.3 so I am looking forward to trying it out.

Thanks,

John
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruqqq:
@DocRambone: mind passing me the services.jar and framework-res.apk for your theme? i like the notification bar but i'm too lazy to mod. been busy lately. thanks!

@psouza4: HelixLauncher2 is not made for Droid.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] psouza4:
Interesting -- that's not posted anywhere, so it's not apparent. I'll uninstall and look for an alternative home screen replacement elsewhere. Thank you.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruqqq:
in the market.. it's the first line of the description. ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Humpa:
You've already found the best home replacement for the Droid. It is called Helix. ;)

This is the first Home replacement I've stuck with - any other I've tried had at least some sort of bug or lag or something. Helix appears to work perfect and stable.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] psouza4:
Ah. Wasn't using the market version... grabbed the test APK.

Hope you develop a Droid/Milestone-compatible version. Worked very smooth other than the posted issues.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] JaydenR:
Really? Cause it works great on Koush's rom on my Droid.;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] btdownloads7:
Thanks for the updates. There are still a couple of layout inconsistensies, though:

1. Even though the app drawer handles are now correctly displayed in landscape, the trash ones aren't.

2. The trash icon is still displayed too high on the screen, so the bottom of the icon can never touch the edge of the screen.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruqqq:
@DA6:

koush is using CM-base.. from AOSP. For that reason, it's the best Droid rom imho.

@btdownloads7:

will look into the issues.. but for #2, i know of this issue. perhaps will fix it when i decide to. need to edit the graphics. :/
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Humpa:
What's the ESE53 from? Isn't that from the AOSP too - except by Moto? That seems like the best rom to me and my Droid. ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gardobus:
RED = niiiiice!

BLUE = LOLLL
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gardobus:
sorry for the late response but that is the "World Clock" widget that was ripped from a Motorola Motoroi.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] tom108:
Wow geat job. its running great on my BB rom. donation sent your way.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gleamicus:
Honestly? I liked the old app drawer method more... I liked having it take over the entire screen. Can it be an option in 1.3 final?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ilanad:
can you explain the -

"Implemented custom icon - Now you can use Bettercut custom icon or alternatively /data/data/com.helixproject.launcher/icons/"

(sorry if I missed it)

and depending on the answer, a suggestion maybe?

/data/data/com.helixproject.launcher/icons/{themename}

load the {themename} folder with icons to replace any/all, maybe even "wallpaper.*" too.

configure

select theme

restart Hellix

instant, low impact themes (iconset/wallpaper/drawer handles/trashcan) perhaps?

just a thought
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] jhalsey205:
Nice enhancements with 1.3. I love the handle back on the open drawer and the suppression of app labels. Great job.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] wornbat:
I installed version2

I installed version 2 but it crashed on hitting the menu button on NexDesire Rom 1.2

Although I have about 500 apps installed on mine.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Redflea:
1.3 beta won't install for me over 1.2a (installed from market over 1.2 from donate repository)...when I click on it in Astro and launch app manager, it only provides an uninstall option, not install.

I can just push the apk, but don't want to lose my setup...help! :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Ok_Kaleidoscope5109:
Any way to implement getting widgets into the bottom bar?

I use SMS Unread so I get a count of unread texts and calls (iphone style) on my Dialer/Messaging/Gmail icons. While they look like shortcuts, they're actually widgets....
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] TheTomas:
Any info on the problem I described? (bottom of page 27) I understand it's hard to diagnose a problem when it's not easily recreated, but someone else must have seen this behavior in this or other home replacements before.

Thanks for the otherwise awesome app.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruqqq:
@wornbat, @TheTomas: i cant help if you didnt provide a logcat ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] jpsiemer:
It would be cool if there was a feature to allow a long press of the home button to bring up the QuickShortcuts menu instead of the default 6 last recently opened apps menu.

Also, any progress on fixing the custom icon distortion? This is the only thing holding me back from fully switching to HelixLaucher!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] alphabets:
idk whats going on. i installed helixlauncher this morning, uninstalled it bc i didnt have the time at work to configure it and it didnt have an icon in my app drawer that i could just click on so that i could go back to my stock home for the meantime, so when i got home from work i reinstalled it, but it is not launching, there is still no app icon in the drawer, and even the "open" button in the market is shaded out so i cant click on it. what is going on?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Redflea:
I'm getting consistent FC on orientation change on 1.3beta1 installed over 1.2a...log attached.

Also don't like the handle added to the app tray for closing...would also like that to be an option if possible. Much more efficient to tap Back than to reach up and grab the handle to close the app drawer...

Nandroiding back to 1.2a for now. Arctu, if you have anything you'd like me to try, let me know.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] oscillot:
beautiful work!

found helixlauncher through some members on alldroid. haven't hung around xda much really since my kaiser died and I got a droid. i'm running pete's bugless beast 0.8 which is an ESE53 rom and adamz's low-voltage kernel (in case that helps anyone) and it works beautifully! sent some love your way so have a beer on me and keep up the awesome work!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] bga7x:
Thank you For your Work!! I have sent a donation!! I would love to try 1.3 out!! thanks in advance!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Chief Wahoo:
I was hoping to get some help with pushing this - I don't have adb installed, is that the only way to get the launcher.apk with the modified logo (Oldblue did a sweet Cleveland Indians one for me)?

Is it not possible to install Helix and then just do an .apk install? I am 28 pages in so far reading this thread and it may be somewhere else, but could I install through Root Explorer?

Any help / direction is appreciated.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruqqq:
Chief, you can just copy the apk to your /data/app folder overwriting com.helixproject.launcher.apk
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] htcmagic:
Any screenshots of how the new version with the drawer handle looks like?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] slaman:
Would like that too please! I use SMS Unread too
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] nickmast:
Donated! Twice actually. The first time my paypal was from an old email account that I no longer have access to. Had to change primary email then donated again.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Humpa:
The helix or helix2?

HelixLauncher works with BetterCut for me.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] mindctrl:
- removing this post as it's not specific to Helix...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] dj4sin:
Enhancement ideas

This is the first home replacement I have actually had interest in using since finding Home++. Not sure if the following has been mentioned already, but here are a few:

1. Ability to lock the background image so it doesn't scroll

2. Continuous screen scrolling

3. Some kind of visual reference to what screen your on
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Humpa:
1. not sure how popular that request is - never even seen it requested, though there are wallpapers that you can use that do just this already

2. yeah, we've mentioned that and he was going to see what he could do - that's a cool feature, and something I would sort of expect in a quality app.

3. Not sure if 1.3 is in the market yet, but that is an option. You can have those little dots as a reference to what screen you are on, or you can have the 4 extra shortcuts. I suspect you want both, though again, not sure how many people would find this useful - maybe if I was real drunk and totally confused or something ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] zonbal33:
I'm having a problem with my icons. For some reason whenever I put certain icons in the launcher below they get distorted and jagged. Some icons look smooth and some will look like crap. As you can see below I made a phone icon. The one on the main screen is fine, but as soon as I put it in the launcher it looks terrible. I'm using Helixlauncher 1.2 and Bettercut and the icons are 48x48. Can anyone help me out. Thanks guys.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] blue_rocket:
donated! excellent work man.

Here's my suggestion now. Make the bottom drawer handle area skinnable.

A quick idea of what i'm imagining...

maybe start with 3 different images you can edit, then be able to customize each of those 3 areas to either bring up the app drawer, or link to a defined shortcut. You'd want to be able to edit the normal state image and the on-click state image.

Personally, i want to be able to recreate the sense UI launcher...but im sure other people could come up with some other really cool skins for this.

In short, you could use the normal version of your launcher where you can drop shortcuts as is... or you can use the alternate custom version which uses skins. The files can be stored somewhere like SDCARD\Data\Helix\Skins\ ...

what do you think?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] jraggio:
Same here. It seems to FC after not being able to load the beautiful widgets clock widget. The widget works fine in general under helix, but it sometimes fails to load in the new orientation. If the widget fails to load then I get the FC. If the widget loads then it does not FC. Redflea, are you also using Beautiful Widgets? I did not see this problem prior to the beta.

John
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] DocRambone:
Your icons should be 72 * 72 pix
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Lazzzara:
I was after the same kind of thing - I worked with what we have;

The weird image resizing for the shortcuts is annoying though. The actual images used are the exact size... Maybe it ends up upscaling them for the bettercut shortcut, then downscaling them differently?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] blue_rocket:
You and I are in the same boat...pretty damn original with what you have to work with! I like it... I just want to have a bit more control over it and to be able to make my real Rosie style launcher! :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Lazzzara:
The icons displayed are 63px x 63px yet even creating them at this size there is a weird distortion, even though they are the same size.

I assume it upscales the icon for the initial bettercut shortcut and then downscales it differently when you drag it to the bottom.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Redflea:
Yes, I have BW Smaller Home on my home page...and this did not happen w/Helix 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, or 1.2a...so something introduced in 1.3Beta1 is what is causing it.

BW is a very popular widget, so arctu should probably prioritize getting it figured out before releasing 1.3 to the general public...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] alphabets:
i posted this on the last page, but i cannot get this to install from the market? even whn it says installed, i cant open it. what am i doing wrong?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] sutakodomo:
I am also having the same problem. I downloaded HelixLauncher for an unrooted Droid and it worked fine. I set is as the default home launcher then unset it and then I could not find an icon to launch it. I uninstalled it and downloaded it again but I could not open it. Even the "open" icon in market was grayed out and I could not click it.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Bear in NM:
The answer to why you guys are not "seeing" is possibly because it is not an apk in the usual sense. To get the prompt to select it for use is to go into "settings" "applications", "manage applications" and I filter all. Scroll down and find the "Home" launcher and press on it. Select "clear defaults". If you are running a stock launcher with a name other than "home", you will need to clear that one as default. Pressing home again should give you the option to run Helix.

Craig
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] alphabets:
Ur a golden god!!! Thank you!!!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Bear in NM:
Nope, but you are welcome. As I am new to a lot of this stuff, just trying to help with the simple things......

Craig
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] alphabets:
i am also new to some droid stuff, just installed my first rom, theme, now launcher. this was bothering me for a day now. i am relieved and grateful!!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Redflea:
Anyone playing w/home screen replacements should have Home Switcher (Free in the market).

Launch Home Switcher and it shows you all installed home screen programs, allows you to launch any of them, and allows you to set one as the default, or change the default.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] cvhovey:
I'm using 1.3 beta and have no problem with BW in either orientation and whether standard or smaller size home.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] meezy009:
Running on 1.6.1 King eclair...great Work on this.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] hamleto:
Wallpaper make app slower?!

HI guys,

I hope this issue haven't been already covered..but 33pages of thread are a bit too much to check;P

Also mailing with the developer of this great app seems that not using default wallpaper make the app slower, to be exact the screen switching appear less smooth...did you noticed it?

If I use the included Helix wallpaper it seems to work better!

Any idea of WHY?!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] blue_rocket:
I'm waiting to try 1.3 now... I donated yesterday but still haven't heard anything about a password
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] hamleto:
The developer will answer don't worry...is week-end also for him and I know he had trouble with email forwarding for donators!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] blue_rocket:
k, thanks! i'll hang tight!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruqqq:
@hamleto: i have no good idea. but perhaps because it's png optimized wallpaper

@donators: just mailed you the password. sorry for the lateness! was out on camping with bunch of lunatics. haha.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] blue_rocket:
so after using 1.3 for a bit... i've got to say, very nice!

- Love the fact that you can make it behave like the real N1 Launcher (with the dots)

For me (personally) to make it perfect these are the things I would change/implement:

- Toggle on / off the 3D app drawer (i may be one of the few people that prefers the 3D look to the old drawer style)

- Go back to full screen app view, the handle makes the launcher look "cheap" unfortunately

- toggle between double tape or pinch to zoom to make the card view be displayed (can you make the cards display like Launcher+ / Sense 2.1?) It's just nice graphical look that I think a lot of people might enjoy.

- Skinnable (check my previous post on that...i'd love to make it look more like the Rosie Launcher.

Bugs that I noticed so far...

- The Google search widget has an orange box around the search button (it's in the pressed state by default)

I know my requests aren't super easy to implement...but I would honestly consider this the perfect launcher with those changes.

Great job!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Redflea:
Regarding Beautiful Widgets compatibility...

I uninstalled Helix 1.2a, rebooted, installed Helix 1.3Beta1.

Set up my home screen icons, including the Beautiful Widgets' Beautiful Smaller Home and Beautiful GPS.

Rotated the Droid to change orientation and got the both a Helix FC and a Beautiful widget FC. For now I've turned off Helix auto-rotate.

Log file attached, arctu, appreciate any info/suggestions.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pkwjr:
Just loaded 1.3beta this morning and it looks great and performing perfectly so far.

One thing I noticed, when you chose the option to hide the notification bar and then trying to thold down on the top of screen to add a widget, you have to hold down a few times in order to get the ADD Home Screen pop-up.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Chief Wahoo:
I second the priority around compatibility with Beautiful Widgets and do hope that fixing this would be a great step forward. Also agree with the positive comments and suggestions that have recently been made in terms of tweaks/fixes that would make this "the" home replacement.

Good work Arctu!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] blue_rocket:
i also have had a few FC's today related to BW... please fix this issue in the next version!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] eurosteve:
Installed 1.2a on Droid 2.0.1. Incredible! Just as described. Fast, no FC and now I have 5 screens!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] psylink:
Best of luck faruq, hope its resolved quickly

to the person who did it *mean face*
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] lockcity:
That's lame. Some idiots sends a

DONATION

...and then expects the donation e-mail to come instantly as if he purchased something, and in turn screws everyone else.

What a jerkoff.

Good luck Faruq.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] dont_blame_me:
Ok, I'll step forward and say it was me, last night I sent a donation around 11pm. I KNEW I wouldn't get it right away, I'm in the military and had to be up early, I went to sleep not caring about it. I have the utmost respect and patience for the devs everywhere. I woke up to see that Paypal® sent me an e-mail to notify me my account had been accessed by a 3rd party. I was like wtf, so I called paypal and asked them what the hell the problem was. They said somebody used my account to send money, I asked how much and they told me, I told them it was me and they asked if I had a new phone number, I said yes and I sent the monies via mobile. My phone was not set up for paypal. So they activated it. And told me I was good to use paypal via mobile now. I apologize to everyone including the dev, I understand he's in singapore, I'm not stupid, so I knew it would take a bit, so arctu when u can receive donations I will send another, once again I am sorry.

You know who I am, so it would be utmost professional to reply back to me since I'm not a jerkoff, I simply made a donation for your work.

Steve
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruqqq:
Hi Steve,

I hope you had resolved the issues on your side already. Like I said to you on twitter, I'll handle the problems on my side. ;) Since it's not intentional, let's let the matter rest. Sorry for the post above if it offended you.

To everyone,

I think I might be at fault for blindly blaming the guy for causing the trouble. The fact is, paypal sent me 2 emails. First regarding the unauthorized payment. Then shortly after, an email that says they're reviewing my account. Was kinda pissed off cause it was a smooth sail before. :/

But anyway, we should let the matter rest now and move on. :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] dont_blame_me:
i feel really bad. i didnt mean for that to happen. like i said in the donation. i love your work.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Flomaster:
Wallpapers

I installed Koush's rom it comes with Launcher2 V.5 and has wallpapers in it, but it is lacking the the features of L2 V.6 I tried to copy the images from one apk to the other but when I click on the wallpaper button I only have the original 7 BLANK wallpapers

is it some thing more than just replace the images do I need to mess with another file or some thing....

-=Jason=-
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] AnderWeb:
Wow, seems faruq has done an excellent work on this, and besides my learning and fun purposes, i think i'm reinventing the weel with my project...

Now idk if i should continue my own dev :)

Btw, my code is on github too just in case you wanna look at.

Superb work dude!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] bakageta:
Ack, don't say that, I love your launcher. A speedy nexus-style animation in 1.6 is amazing, though I certainly wouldn't complain if you added in shortcuts, hehe. Unfortunately, HelixLauncher doesn't (yet?) work on 1.6, and it's using the drawer style.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] wonsanim:
Please I like to Know the size of the Icons to use with HL 63X63 or 72X72 or 48X48 some help please.and wich size the shows in the today or home screen:)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] DocRambone:
72 * 72 pixels for icons on nexus desktop
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] wonsanim:
Just in N1 or in all 2.1 devices:)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] kwan:
Using Contacts shortcut, the popup shows up on the top of the screen and is cut off.

Doesn't do it on HelixLauncher2. Any suggestions?

Edit: 1.3 beta fixed this issue. Thanks
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruqqq:
Updated Donators' Repo: see change log.

And no, I can't take donations anymore. Sorry peeps.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] JaydenR:
Works great.

Thanks
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] DocRambone:
THANKS Arctu, the latest beta is almost PERFECT. Wow :D

Pity that donation is down, i be happy to give you a beer or 2 for your work :)

Few pics of the latest beta (with som graphic changes i made ):

And a transparent drawer:
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Humpa:
Why doesn't your app drawer go all the way up? Mine does with the new beta.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] DocRambone:
Its just in the pic, i hold it while i take the screen shot ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Humpa:
But it has your custom drawer handle on it?

Oh, I see. When you open the tray now, it pauses for a split second when the handle reaches the top, and then the handle disappears and it goes the rest of the way. You must have snapped the screen capture during that split second?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Redflea:
Glad to see the update, arctu...

Got one FC from auto-rotate after installing, but after that switched orientation several times and didn't get another FC.

Nice to be able to choose default home screen from settings, and really like having the full-screen app drawer back!! :D
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] bobtentpeg:
Doc once this is out of beta, I hope you share that mod!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Neverendingxsin:
damn i'd love to send you a few bucks man, wish we could still donate :( i love your helix launcher :D
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ilanad:
Two suggestions :)

#1 FIVE COLUMNS!

#2 If you take off the icon text, extra row of icons possible?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Bear in NM:
Doc,

I was pleased that the upgrade to beta2 did not break any of my settings, widgets or screen layouts. I like you have made my notification bar, news/weather, power and music widgets all transparent. Seems to go well with lwp's.

Perhaps you can confirm what I am seeing as different in this latest release is the option to set which page is "home"? At least that is what I am seeing.

Craig