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cakey 2007-12-29 05:00

Any way to get rid of the "contacts" icon?
 
Hi. Is there a way to get rid of or replace the contacts button on the left menu?

Thanks alot. :)

geneven 2007-12-29 05:31

Re: Any way to get rid of the "contacts" icon?
 
I wish. When I asked a similar.question about ten months ago, there wasn't.

Kotonokia 2007-12-29 05:32

Re: Any way to get rid of the "contacts" icon?
 
Yea it's useless for me. I'd also like to get rid of Skype and Rapsody from the "my selection"

johenkel 2007-12-29 06:59

Re: Any way to get rid of the "contacts" icon?
 
To kotonokia:
I kicked them off the list via control panel>personalization>navigation>organize applications.

Voila.

rdcinhou 2007-12-29 11:00

Re: Any way to get rid of the "contacts" icon?
 
What about the opposite, such as adding an application to the MENU?

I like the Internet Radio applet, but I don't want to tie up screen space with the ugly UI that came with the N800.

Since the applet is already installed how can you add it to the menu?

cbarnett 2007-12-29 15:11

Re: Any way to get rid of the "contacts" icon?
 
Same here... I'd like to be able to have what I want, or don't, on the top level menu.

Short answer: There seems no way to do this with GUI tools.

Alternative answer: This is Linux. You can do what you want. You'll have to get into the config files for the window manager (matchbox, I think).

Follow up: Do you want to get into hacking at this level? In order for the N800 to be accessible to the general public, some sacrifices have been made. One of the major sacrifices I can see, and I'm willing to live with it, is very tight control by Nokia over the OS structure. If you go screwing with that, and using third party repositories is risky enough, you take the chance that some Nokia update down the road will pooch the whole thing because you changed a setting Noikia assumed would never change. So... hack away, but keep your OS images, and flashing tools handy.

Kotonokia 2007-12-29 15:52

Re: Any way to get rid of the "contacts" icon?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by johenkel (Post 117170)
To kotonokia:
I kicked them off the list via control panel>personalization>navigation>organize applications.

Voila.

Mine doesn't have a Navigation :(

BruceL 2007-12-29 16:46

Re: Any way to get rid of the "contacts" icon?
 
Use control-panel>panels then click the 'organize' button.

Aciv 2007-12-29 18:43

Re: Any way to get rid of the "contacts" icon?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by BruceL (Post 117336)
Use control-panel>panels then click the 'organize' button.

This works, but for me it took lots of patience and determination/persistence. I had to move most items several times, and I also rearranged the menus to make the moves more direct. Wish I could say what makes it work or fail but I couldn't quite figure it out.

migs 2007-12-29 20:01

Re: Any way to get rid of the "contacts" icon?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Aciv (Post 117392)
This works, but for me it took lots of patience and determination/persistence. I had to move most items several times, and I also rearranged the menus to make the moves more direct. Wish I could say what makes it work or fail but I couldn't quite figure it out.

I was not able to get "Contacts" to disappear from the Home screen. Its seems rather complicated but I will keep trying.. If any would could post a step-by-step itr woulb be great. UI want to keep the Home screen as clean as possible by removing unsued icons. Thanks


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