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Originally Posted by t0mmyr
...is it just me or am i noticing a bit more lag now when switching to the internet tab, not any lag in the tab but it takes a few seconds for the tab to actually come up after releasing my finger...
i wonder if u can make a lite-basic, lite-loaded, lite-loaded+ basically with the same stuff but no icons at all, i have a feeling loading those icons might be slowing things up...
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Originally Posted by brushrop03
I've also noticed quite a big of lag when switching to the internet tab..
edit: Yeah just went back to the stock file, and its much faster than the custom file. It looks nice but that lag isn't cool  |
*cough* From the original post of this modded file:
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The fewer items/icons, the faster the tab loads, and that is why 'Basic' has only 4 items.
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Yes, you both noticed something -- something that was stated from the very beginning -- loading a bunch of 48x48 or 64x64 or even higher resolution icons can take a couple of seconds to load in this context. It's similar to (though slightly more than) the lag loading the 'Programs' tab, and there is no lag from sliding past 'Internet', it's only if you stop on it.
In this case, the mod lends form, function, and efficiency, in exchange for 2-3 seconds of your time. It's your call to embrace that or not.
@ t0mmyr - I will play around some more with it later (I will be out with clients most of the morning). I can tell you that if you point to a bad (or missing) icon in this Manila file it will initially show a blank white square where the icon should be, and it's very ugly. If I can find a way to resize or eliminate that box your idea of a text-only 'lite' version might actually work -- I will check it out.
@ brushrop03 - If you want better results, you could try resizing a copy of your icons down to tiny little 20x20 (appx) and see if you can get them down to a few K per, then edit your Manila to link to those icons. Short of including a mini-icon-pack with the Manila file, or NRGZ cooking one in, I don't have any ideas that would likely impact the performance while still pointing to the cooked-in icons. This tab wasn't exactly designed to be crammed full of program shortcuts, or to be forced to load a dozen hires icons from various locations of the device filesystem.
Anyways, I am glad a lot of people are enjoying the mod. If NRGZ is really planning on including some version of this in the next ROM build as he suggested he might, maybe we can figure out how to speed it up a bit beforehand...