Ultimate Launcher - Page 6

The Sapient · #51 (**permalink**) 02-28-2008, 12:49 PM

Please forgive this most newbie of questions. I'm enjoying Ultimate Launcher, but I have little experience with such things and am finding I need icons to really make it look presentable. Is there a good source for free, appropriately sized icons? Do you all just make your own? Are ico files just small bitmaps?

Thanks for any help and advice (which I hope won't be "search is you friend, Newb!"

).

thug4life · #52 (**permalink**) 02-28-2008, 12:55 PM

how do i getto settings for it?

eehrhard · #53 (**permalink**) 02-28-2008, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by The Sapient

Please forgive this most newbie of questions. I'm enjoying Ultimate Launcher, but I have little experience with such things and am finding I need icons to really make it look presentable. Is there a good source for free, appropriately sized icons? Do you all just make your own? Are ico files just small bitmaps?

Thanks for any help and advice (which I hope won't be "search is you friend, Newb!"

).

There are many places you can find icons. Google as always is your friend. But if you want some really cool ones poke around www.deviantart.com.

an .ico is not a simple image file. It is actually a set of images that are fomatted for multiple sizes and color setups. A single ico could have 12 different icons in it such as 48X48 RGB, 32X32 RGB, 48X48 256, 32X32 256, etc... There are many very good icon editing programs I use Icon Workshop which is amazing. http://www.axialis.com/

eehrhard · #54 (**permalink**) 02-28-2008, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by thug4life

how do i getto settings for it?

There should be a Config icon on your UL default tab. Or you can click and hold on any tab and select settings.

The Sapient · #55 (**permalink**) 02-28-2008, 01:02 PM

Fantastic. Thanks eehrhard.

**shaun0207** · #56 (**permalink**) 02-28-2008, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by eehrhard

There are a couple good places to get icons. Of course you can always google but if you want some really cool icons look around www.deviantart.com. You can also get an icon editing program (i use IconWorkshop) and you can pretty much turn any image into an icon.

www.crystalXP.com is good too.

Do you have a link directly to the icons on Deviantart.com. I cant fins them on that site. And the links to crystalXP bought up a domian name site.

Edit: nevemind. I found them

eehrhard · #57 (**permalink**) 02-28-2008, 01:08 PM

www.crystalXP.net

Do a search on deviant art. GANT ICONs are pretty cool looking.

You can try here at deviant art too

http://browse.deviantart.com/customi.../icons/os/win/

You need to use XP icons or you have to convert them.

02840 · #58 (**permalink**) 02-28-2008, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by badchad

Gotcha.

Okay, now I have the tasks (and the icon) displayed, but the text is missing. It doesn't have the usual "4 active tasks" or however many i have going on.

I'm using a classic black theme, do I have black on black text somwhere or what?

This was driving me crazy as well. The above referenced tasks.lnk simply uses the link in the windows/start menu folder, just like launching Tasks from Programs. And of course it won't display the same as the today plugin. After fiddling with the registry for a while the best I could do was get the Tasks option to show up in Ultimate Launch as selectable but it wouldn't work when displayed.

I finally gave up and am now trying this:

http://www.tasksplus.szm.com/index2.htm

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Fully configurable. Allows you to set which tasks to show and how to show them, including the possibility to control the number or order of tasks. Different view formats allow you to show tasks in form you like, with text and caption size you like. Tasks are filtered by categories, importance and sensitivity, with the ability to group them by dates. Groups are expandable to list the grouped tasks. Quick configuration change is possible using the user-defined profiles.
Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6.0 compatible. Supports new PIM notification system.
Windows Mobile 2003 SE compatible. Fully supports hi-resolution screens with landscape rotation. Square screen devices are also supported.
Small footprint. Installation size takes about 60 kb for the main library, additional language packs have approximately 7 kb each, but they are not required for run.
On-screen menu. Standard operations as copy view, beam, send to bluetooth, delete task, or make task complete are accessible from Today Screen pop-up menu. Shell extensions are fully supported and included in the menu.
Language packs. Distribution currently contains English (included in main library), Czech, Danish, German, Greek, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japan, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portugalese-Brasilian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish and Chinese Simplified language packs. These packs are not required by the plug-in to run, so you can delete them. Additional language packs are coming.
It's Free! And always will.

Seems to be working well so far and is fairly configurable so you can have either more, or less, than is shown in the screen shot.

eehrhard · #59 (**permalink**) 02-28-2008, 05:42 PM

I finally got the task today plugin to show up on my list in UL by changing the registry settings for the plugin but it is failing to load the dll. It would seem using something like the task plus above or maybe this task plugin from xda http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=270288 is the easiest solution.

02840 · #60 (**permalink**) 02-28-2008, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by eehrhard

I finally got the task today plugin to show up on my list in UL by changing the registry settings for the plugin but it is failing to load the dll.

That was the same issue I was having. I noticed that there are additional registry entries for the task plugin when it's active on the today screen. I believe one of them was designating which categories were to be displayed. Don't know if that has anything to do with the DLL issue. Kudos to you if you can get it working!