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I use desktop switcher and I have changed the Icons.. Really its easy to do, if your not sure send me the screen shots or the icons and I'll do it for you.

regards Qosmio.

Pm me if you need help

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i use matan's hildon desktop and is working good for me, the other i dont know cuz i dont try it

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yes in this desktop i use home screen selector, you rigth, but in others i use desktop switcher

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Ahhh, I hadn't put 'date' before the code! Thank you!
Only thing is now i've changed the font to make it bigger but it's made no difference

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cuz you must to change the font of the comand result settings not in the tittle.
the comand result setings are to change the result you see in the desktop went the widget is working, the font, size colour, position.. all that you want to see went you press the desktop widget, the titlle is only to change the tittle of the widget but in this case we hide it to dont see that what say "date"

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ok, here's my new main desktop. The taskbar is now transparent, I've removed '2' and '6' from desktop switcher because i can just swipe to the next screen with no difficulty, slightly rearranged the icons so they're no longer on the top and made the "Scout" icon (magnifying glass) transparent background rather than the white square it had previously.
Battery has gone to the left and changed the OMweather font colour. DigiClock with QBW date in top right. ConnectNow widgets are now on the internet screen. Basically wanted less clutter and to be able to reach important things without obscuring a nice picture.

I just wish the battery icon could be made smaller as it's pretty big even on the smallest setting.

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oh right, ok, thanks, i'm a total 100% n00b to QBW. Anyway doesn't matter, i've decided i like it the current font size because i don't want it taking too much space.

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thanks bro!

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That is stunning,

Kind Regards,
D4rKlar

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Well up to now my N900 hasn't put a foot wrong and it's most definately the best handheld piece of kit in my entire life so far and I'm getting on a bit lol!

After mastering the art of extending my N900's desktops from 4 to 9 and more importantly mastering the art, almost, of placing backgrounds on them, in conjunction with the desktop switcher widget, I am addicted to making my screens look the business and be practical at the same time.

Kudos so far has to go to Richwhite because he has been so understanding and patient with me, away from this site and now I am joining in here with some immediate questions please.............

I would like your home screen icon Rich and your grey/silver numeric icons to replace the desktop switcher widget ones and some instructions please?

The other matter is how can you resize desktop contact icons when you have substituted an image for the default blue one - I would like one of my new screens to be for my family's contacts all with photos but a little smaller than their default size so they can all fit on.

Is there a software which I should be using to assist with all this - some of the screens are spectacularly good inmho

I hope you or someone can help me please

Cheers

roz

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Anybody knows of a simple slick icon set in either steel or plastic look in 2D. I'm working on an idea for a new desktop, still in testing face but can't seem to find a full icon set i like. I want to 'merge' the icons i need into the wallpaper and then only use hidden QBW's to activate/start apps etc. In my testing i found that most of the time the QB's react faster than the shortcuts on the desktops and in the menu and apps opens faster ;)

Well hope somebody can point me to an icon set i havn't seen yet on the net :D

Heres a screen of my finished one (am tempted to use more than two now these switcher widgets has turned up hahaha) ;)

Attachment 14765

The mediaplayer buttons are QB's, coding made by techie ;)

Look here if interested :)

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=63546#post836644

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updated: click on my siggy

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Stunning... Some icons are blurry, but the idea and its realization are stunning...

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Hi Roz, thanks for the kudos and i will upload the icons when i get back to the computer later (using the N900 at the moment).

I haven't a clue about contacts, Qosmio is the one to ask, but software, i used photoshop twice to make transparent backgrounds but otherwise most of us just download icon sets from google or deviantart


Edit: home icon attached. The others were from this icon set, just use the download link http://icons.mysitemyway.com/whitewa...-alphanumeric/
The home one is the correct size already, the rest will need resizing, i made them all 64x64 to be the same as my other icons, but desktop switcher lets you use whatever size you want. use www.picresize.com to do it, 64x64 pixels not percent and make sure to save as a .PNG

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Brilliant Rich - you are really a star!

Just one noob and probably stupid question - take the home icon above - how do I replace the original with it exactly? In fact how do you replace any desktop icon, with another one?

cheers again

roz

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Install Filebox from extras-devel (it's a safe app don't worry). Connect your N900 to your computer in mass storage mode and open the N900 (not the memory card) then create a new folder, call it Custom or something. Then unplug it, open filebox, tick the 'up' arrow to go two pages back, then it's opt/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64, in there you'll see what you want to change, like the phone icon is general_call and conversations is general_SMS. Whatever you want to change, hold the icon until a box pops up, tap 'copy', then hit the 'home' icon to go back to MyDocs, open the custom folder and the second icon on the right is clipboard, hit that, tick the icon you copied and then the top icon (paste).

Reconnect to the computer, open Custom, drag the icon(s) to the computer - that's your backup in case it goes wrong. Delete the icon from Custom, drag the custom icon to it and rename to be exactly what the original was, copy then go back to usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64 and hit clipbaord and paste. It will say 'do you want to overwrite', say yes. Reboot and you'll notice a new icon.

The desktop switcher icon is different, they're in /usr/share/pixmaps/desktop-switcher/switch_left.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/desktop-switcher/switch_right.png
they go left and right, for '1' '2' '3' just change to that. 'Home' will be switch_1 I think, you can easily see what to make it by opening the folder in filebox and seeing what it's called.

Once you do it once it's easy. To break it down:
Copy the original icon and paste it in Custom (the 'home' icon in filebox takes you to your MyDocs, where Custom will be when you make it.)
Rename the new one to match the original, put in Custom, then copy it.
Go to the respective folder, for email, sms, phone, contacts etc that's opt/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64 and clipboard>paste, 'yes' to overwrite. Reboot.

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Freakin' superb - Rich - you are the man.

I'm addicted now hehe and after lunch (got jobs to do, including fixing a pc, where I am much more adept :) ) I will give this a real go.

Thanks a million

roz

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Yeah addicted is the word, i've lost many hours since discovering this

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hello mate, exactly in this idea is that im working now, making the widget transparents and the icons in the wallpaper, like this i can use diferent kind of icons depend of the desktop and not a lot of beecons whit diferents bacgrounds, is more easy.
what kind of icons are you looking for??

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Just switched some icons for larger QB shortcuts, nice one Q! :D

http://i55.tinypic.com/2moy3qr.png

http://i51.tinypic.com/m90sc5.png


Kind Regards,
D4rKlar

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the normal one is fantastic, but the vertical one is amazing:eek::p

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Your stuff is legendary. Sure my questions have already been answered before but hard to dig through the million posts in the thread. So how:

1. Do you get those 3g and wi fi buttons/shortcuts you have on the portrait desktop?

2. How do you add those small rectangular shaped web bookmarks

3. How do you get the transparent media player widget?

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You're far too kind mate, thank you :D

I used the ConnectNow widgets for those, with custom icons (see attached).

http://maemo.org/downloads/product/M...w-home-widget/

For ConnectNow icons in portrait and landscape exactly like mine install ConnectNow, download the attachment and all instructions are in the readmes.

For the bookmarks see attached (modded from Biggzys original) and just put one on top of another :D

http://i51.tinypic.com/oayq9l.png

The transparent media widget is here:

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...postcount=1310

Pretty much a full explanation of what I did to acheive the portrait desktop is here:

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...postcount=1467

Kind Regards,
D4rKlar

@kamiwey Thank you mate!

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I made my latest wallpaper by modifying a Leon-themed artwork by Jeff Boyes.

http://mitxela.com/img/random/Screen...017-145403.png
http://mitxela.com/img/random/Screen...017-145409.png

Recently reflashed so haven't had a chance to clutter it with widgets yet.
For the bookmarks I made / stole icons for the websites I visit most and added *.desktop files to /usr/share/applications/hildon/.

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Hey Buddy, take a look at these icon sets. They may inspire you for your quest:

http://icons.mysitemyway.com/categor...squares-icons/

Good work! Keep it up.

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Lol thats cool, i just descovered QBW and it's amazing :D

It should be 2D steel or plastic look and a simple style :)

@parlapipas cheers mate it might be something, am looking through it now :D

e: cool site with icons, the ones you pointed to don't fit the style i have in mind, but i'm pretty sure there's a icon set there i can use :D

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http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/7...0101717302.png

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/7...0101717375.png

Here are mine, not finished yet.

Big Halo fan:D

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Wait wait wait, how did you get that mega drive icon?

Edit: also D4rklar, am considering implementing your 'rotate icons manually to implement portrait screen', but how does that work, because if i paste that in over general_call it'll overwrite my usual icon, right? So how do i have both? And similarly, once that's done, how do i actually have the call icon applied multiple times? Currently i can only apply once

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stephano which theme are you using?

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@stephano nice little detail on your cpu clock number (superman) lol :D

The stock icons really fits the wallpaper, nice work ;)

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And now with autorotating desktop clock widget!

http://i54.tinypic.com/9rm5au.png

Many thanks to Nicolai, download direct from the following link:

http://repository.maemo.org/extras-d..._0.5_armel.deb

Kind Regards,
D4rKlar

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http://d4rklar.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2rsslm

Same megadrive icon I've always had except I'm using QueenB to make the shortcut icons bigger, the original I'm sure was just a google job. To make multiple shortcuts you need to either use QueenB or modify the .destop files in your usr/share/applications folder,

Kind Regards,
D4rKlar

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err, think i'll stick to drlaunch.

sorry to be a pest, how do you reflect the icons?

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With the desktop shortcuts its really not that hard, the desktop file is the instance of that app which shows on the desktop.

If you copy rtcom-call-ui.desktop (phone shortcut) to MyDocs, rename it to rtcom-call-ui1.desktop and using leafpad edit the icon name (both that of the icon and that in the .desktop file) to general_call1.png, then put the .desktop back and your portrait icon back into 64/hildon you'll get an extra portrait shortcut show up.

Alternatively use this:

http://wiki.maemo.org/Queen_BeeCon_W...FSizes_buttons

RE reflections photoshop directly onto the wallpaper mate!

And don't worry, ask away :D

Kind Regards,
D4rKlar

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i'm using the digital nature theme(beta) with some custom battery icons and signal icons enz

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How do you do that in photoshop? Never used it much but can work my way around when told what to do!

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http://www.tutorial9.net/photoshop/t...p-reflections/

Kind Regards,
D4rKlar

Alternatively:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Photoshop+Reflections :D :D :D

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Thanks, i'll work on that later.

I think i must be browsing dA wrong, those zip files aren't in the user's gallery are they? How do you find them?

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Anyone know where to find the password safe icon?