Okay here is my shot at it. I think it came out nice. Thanks for all the great info guys

Bloody limey wanker!

Actually I don't like the generic app icon either but it was a quickie. Coming up with a generic globe was the better of the two projects. The hard part with the idea of a generic app is that most people just do a command window and that looks boring. I tried spicing it up but there's only so much you can do with a crap idea.

I'll work on it some more - and if you want some specific app icons for Neo, please ask.

Kermit Woodall
Managing Editor
GadgetNutz.com

I used hamsuplo's base files along with junior icons I downloaded from iconaholic.com and the results are nice! Thanks hamsuplo. I only updated the main icons and didn't bother with the many subicons. I didn't even bother to resize the icons and the neo interface will shrink them to fit. It's kind of neat having the icons being so big and a little overflowing and bleeding off the screen. I even made a poor-man's photo contact dialer by making a copy of the CLinks section.

For the icons:
1. Download icandy junior icons from http://www.iconaholic.com/downloads.html.
2. Download Faststone image viewer from http://faststone.org/.
3. Use Faststone to batch convert the .ico files to .png to create the active icons.
4. To make inactive icons, use Faststone to batch convert the .png files with the advanced adjustment option for Sepia. You can adjust the settings to change the hue.
5. The only real work was that I used Adobe Fireworks to add the glowing red exclaimation mark to neo's glowing notification icon.

There are the files that I updated:

from iconholics.com:
CHome_Appointments_desat_inactive.png
CHome_Appointments_sat_active.png
CHome_clock_desat_inactive.png
CHome_clock_sat_active.png
CHome_home_desat_inactive.png
CHome_home_sat_active.png
CHome_home_sat_inactive_glow.png
CHome_links_desat_inactive.png
CHome_links_sat_active.png
CHome_music_desat_inactive.png
CHome_music_sat_active.png
CHome_MyPhotos_desat_inactive.png
CHome_MyPhotos_sat_active.png
CHome_sendmessage_desat_inactive.png
CHome_sendmessage_sat_active.png
CHome_settings_desat_inactive.png
CHome_settings_sat_active.png

from hamsuplo's zip:
CHome_framework_background_p.png
CHome_framework_glass_p.png
CHome_framework_NavIconSelectionPanel.png
CHome_framework_status_bar_bg.png
CHome_framework_TextGlow_p.png
CHome_framework_textpanel_NoNPI_p.png
CHome_framework_textpanel_p.png

Converted to jpg and bmp from hamsuplo's background post. You will notice that the files you are overwriting are slightly taller. Don't worry about it and there is no need to adjust the output size.
BackgroundImage_Port.bmp
PhoneBKI1_Port.jpg
PhoneBKI2_Port.jpg
T-MobileBasicBrown.jpg

If you're curious, the NEO interface does support landscape mode, as evident by the different skin files for portrait and for landscape. I used a mortscript command to rotate the screen and the neo interface automatically uses the landscape files. The only problem is that the shadow's input drivers are not designed for the flip to landscape and so the dpad does not shift orientation.

Now to make a skin for my wife's shadow. She is now jealous of my shadow's new look and all I can say is that I'm prototyping for a perfect skin for your phone. I wonder if there are cute hello kitty icons out there.

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See pic below... with some registry tweaking and some image creation as required, you can turn the t-zones menu into a favourites menu for whatever you want (apps, web pages etc). You're not limited to 4 either

Refining the process atm, but watch this space!

P

PS Note that this is a real live screen shot and it works as you would expect...
PPS HKLM\Security\cHome\CLinks is where the fun begins ;)