Hi Dibbson,
Mobile Underground's touch pro 2 cdma rom forum has a posting from Indagroove for Manila 2018 (
link). Maybe you could put this in your kitchen and try it out.
Another neat thing is something I see in ai6908's ROM, which is the inclusion of a programs tab for manila 2.5/WM 6.5.x. He pointed me to this
link on how he did it.
I've been using this and it's been a good replacement for CHT. For me CHT was great because of all the quicklinks I can assign and use without having to go to WM start menu screen. I think this may save more RAM from not having CHT installed.
Just some thoughts....