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Size of Icons question

I recently purchased better cut to change icons, great application by the way.
I downloaded the android 2.0 icons from the market, they are great.
But I am now looking for other icons to replace my favorite apps. So far I found some really nice ones on the market (X-icons 1,2,3 and 4 are very complete and beautiful) but they all are a bit smaller than the regular ones.
Obviously I can make some myself but a) I don't know the resolution of the icons and b) it is quicker to get them somewhere on the internet
Does anybody knows where I can download icons for the X10?
Cheers,
Arnold

inorder to have quality display minimum Icon size should be 72px by 72px with 72dpi rez. preferably RGB to display most colors correctly.
I know u understand this very-well.
Ps: let me know what specific icons ur lookingfor, I might be able to get it 4 you

Large Icons

Can anyone give suggestions on how to get an icon to overlap multiple slots. Launcherpro allows you to resize widgets, but if you use an icon to resize it doesn't make it bigger just centers it, thoughts?

I've never tried this but what if you reduced the number of rows and columns?

Desktop Visulizar
Download Desktop Visualizer from the market

THanks Toatman!!

large icon
Glad to help

Does anyone know how to make the icons in the dock of LauncherPro bigger? I have put some icons on my dock but they are too small for my liking. I have searched this board and online for a while, and I haven't found a solution.
I just want my dock icons bigger.

bump - anyway to do this ?

Don't think you can make them bigger. I think the size is 84x84 but if the icons you're using has transparent pixels around it, that would make it seem smaller.

You could try lcd density changer, and just go bigger instead of smaller like everyone else is doing. Default is 240, try 280 maybe.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=768809

Try Multicon in the market
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Help with "invisible" buttons :)

Have a look his video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPihz5x4enE
As he explains, the buttons are just part of the wallpaper, fair enough, but how to
get the different apps and activities to respond to touch?
Also, what launcher is the best for the tab... i always find myself annoyed by the fact that icons and widgets never sticks where i want the, or i find a good d placement, but space between are to big, etc..
I have bought both launcher pro plus and open home 6, and there is ADW... but what do you guys think?
Anyman: what do you use in the video?

Get desktop Visualizer and have blank pngs for icons, set a 10x10 grid and you'll b able to put the anywhere, adw and LP can resize Widgets so you shouldn't have a problem with placement
swyped from a galaxy far far away...

natious said:
Get desktop Visualizer and have blank pngs for icons, set a 10x10 grid and you'll b able to put the anywhere, adw and LP can resize Widgets so you shouldn't have a problem with placement
swyped from a galaxy far far away...
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What size for the .png's would you recommend? (what are the original sammy png's in px?)
Also, where do the png's go after i have made them?
Thx

torespen said:
What size for the .png's would you recommend? (what are the original sammy png's in px?)
Also, where do the png's go after i have made them?
Thx
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any size will do, just make it 50x50px, and put them on your sd card where you will remember, all my icons go in sd root/icons

Transparent Backgroud for Icons Label

Hey guys, I'm wondering whether there is a way to get rid of the icon labels background on the home screen and make it transparent. IMO it looks ugly. I tried looking for a thread that has a solution for this already but I could not find one, if such thread exist, please help direct me to it.
And anyone who might know the trick to achieve this, please share. Thanks!

If you mean riddance of the black background for the white text for the the icons...
+1

+1
10 char
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ronald.aton said:
get rid of the icon labels background
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There are 2 ways I can think of (and have tried).
===== If you are on stock TouchWiz: =====
Try the app "Desktop VisualizeR" (spelt exactly like that).
Market Link
Do note it's not the most "efficient" way of making transparent icon label backgrounds so it might be too inefficient for people that change homescreen icons on a regular basis. As in it takes awhile to setup all the icons but it works.
Steps:
1. Go to home screen > add widget > Desktop VisualizeR (1x1 SS).
then...
2. Click on the widget > select icon and action (in this instance you can just use an app "Icon" as the "icon" and the "Launch" action as "launch the app" > fill or leave "Label" > set "Label Color" as "Transparent".
Another thing you can do if you want all your future icons to follow a "template" of your choosing (e.g. I want all my future icons created using this widget / icon to have white text on transparent background), then go into your Applications > launch Desktop VisualizeR program > click "Menu" button on your phone > Settings > and now you can play around with the settings.
===== Use another launcher (such as Launcher Pro or ADW etc.) =====
I'm pretty sure there is a setting in the launcher settings that allows all created homescreen shortcuts to have a transparent label background.

I use the GO Launcher App. It solves the problem easily and shows the switch of the homescreens smoothly ;-)
My favourite launcher @ Maket

Thanks guys for your responses. I really wanted to achieve this while keeping the stock TW launcher but there just really isn't an actual mod or anything for this. Since I also wanted to be able to rename the labels, I ended up using GoLauncher EX instead. It's a very good alternative and yes, it is very smooth, especially with a kernel running at 1.7 Ghz.
If you use GoLauncher, you probably noticed that the icons on the dock are much smaller than the ones on your home screen. To make them similar, or in some, equal in size, I had to extract the icons I use on my dock from those .apk's and re-sized them from edge to edge to get rid of the margins because that is what's making them appear small on the dock. I saved the edited icons and put them on my sd card and just used the "Change Icon" option from GoLauncher to use the ones I edited. I also went ahead and made custom icons from folders so that they'll look better at least.
I have a screen shot of my home screen below for you guys to check out. Btw, I'm loving the G-Note! This device is just epic!

ronald.aton said:
Thanks guys for your responses. I really wanted to achieve this while keeping the stock TW launcher but there just really isn't an actual mod or anything for this. Since I also wanted to be able to rename the labels, I ended up using GoLauncher EX instead. It's a very good alternative and yes, it is very smooth, especially with a kernel running at 1.7 Ghz.
If you use GoLauncher, you probably noticed that the icons on the dock are much smaller than the ones on your home screen. To make them similar, or in some, equal in size, I had to extract the icons I use on my dock from those .apk's and re-sized them from edge to edge to get rid of the margins because that is what's making them appear small on the dock. I saved the edited icons and put them on my sd card and just used the "Change Icon" option from GoLauncher to use the ones I edited. I also went ahead and made custom icons from folders so that they'll look better at least.
I have a screen shot of my home screen below for you guys to check out. Btw, I'm loving the G-Note! This device is just epic!
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Look nice. Mind to share your icons set?

aezv said:
Look nice. Mind to share your icons set?
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Sure. Just download the attachment below. Make sure when you select the icons for use, that you press "No Crop" so that they will display properly.

Thanks a lot, you save me much big time.

aezv said:
Thanks a lot, you save me much big time.
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You're welcome.

Non-square icons in Nova Launcher

I have DCikonZ for icons pack under Look and Feel. These are square icons 114x114. I've tried to replace manually some of them with icons (not from a set), 144x130. After I choose the new icon, it is displayed in an editing box where I'm forced to cut some parts of the image to make it square. I could not figure out how to use icons with a custom aspect ratio (different than 1:1). I'll appreciate any help!
Update:
I still didn't figure out if Nova Launcher supports icons with aspect ratios different than 1:1. However, I found a way around it. I've modified the icon canvas size to 144 x 144, on a transparent background. Now the icons are shown at the original aspect ratio (144 x 130), because they are part of a transparent square.