This topic may be a bit premature seeing how manilla 2d is still in it's beta stages but...
I havn't tryed Manilla 2d yet but for everyone who has, what do you like/dislike about it? Would you prefer it over Htc Home? Why would you? I'm using Htc Home right now. Especially with the nice Htc Customizer.
I suggest you try it first, before creating a thread - it only takes 5 minutes..
and to answer your question I prefer Home.
Manila absolutely no question about it. Seriously, this is like asking if one prefers a bumper car or a real car. Just my .02 but i think you'll find most will choose manila.
over Manilla
I found this thread while looking for a non Manilla ROM after being annoyed by the screen rotation to not want to use it any more.
Looked cool initially...
it looks cool and stuff but i changed back from manilla to the htc home because manilla had to many bugs
todd737 said:
I found this thread while looking for a non Manilla ROM after being annoyed by the screen rotation to not want to use it any more.
Looked cool initially...
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Search for AthineOS. He made two roms, one for manilla and one for htc home. Rom is superfast. I also suggest Duttys_WM6[1].1_5.2.19700_Hybrid_V2 rom. Not so lite as AthineOS rom, it's a very good rom and always had decent battery life no matter what radio u used...
Back to topic..
This is exactly what i wanted. So far poll is 2-2. I think Manilla will outweigh HHome once all the bugs are tweaked and landscape = 100% other than the quick fix he has out right now. In any case, they are both really nice apps to have for our today screen and for the authors to have many donations going there way..
Home until the bugs are sorted although have recently fiddled with mobile shell and throttle launcher. I find I keep going back to home with ultimate launch.
swtaltima said:
Manila absolutely no question about it. Seriously, this is like asking if one prefers a bumper car or a real car. Just my .02 but i think you'll find most will choose manila.
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Great analogy mate haha
I figured I would try Manila2D for a day and then go back to HTC Home when it first came out in a Rom but from the moment I first used it I fell in love with the feel and ease of use. You can navigate through all the menus using your finger or DPad as prefered whereas Home tended to be very fiddly and I was always using my stylus or the start menu to get where I wanted. Im using SJ's OPAL build 11th Oct now and I have absolutely no bugs and its extremely fast and responsive. In my experience most of the people who have experienced problems in the latest builds have been down to bad flashes. I always advise everyone to shut down all other programs and keep the Rom update program in the foreground when flashing and to take out the sim card to avoid all posibility of glitches occuring.
Manila wins hands down anyday.
I use neither, because:
1. Manilla vanilla, shmanilla. Sheesh, if I wanted a touchflo device I would buy a Touch Pro/HD or something like that. Every second thread in development and hacking is about manilla something or other. Enough already.
2. I HATE fingerprints, smears, etc on my screen.
3. HTC Home requires far too much Today real estate!
This is my setup:
PhoneAlarm Pro with B&W pure Skin (small footprint)
PDC (Pocket Digital Clock) with Alien Round fonts
Sun n Moon
Homescreen ++ (Ex Batterystatus) with Tray Icons activated.
SPB Traveller
TodayAgenda
And then I use S2U2 with an animated gif. That's it.
I use manilla. I love the customization of it. I love using my fingers to get to the things I use. I alos love the themes I can make. Home just never appealled to me at all. I was lucky enough not to have my phone bit for a week or two before M2d came out.
I use Manilla. It's attractive, responsive, and well laid-out. It's not perfect, though -- I find the built-in weather app pretty weak and I like Live Search better than Google Maps. But even with those complaints, I still prefer Manilla.
You forgot the "None" option. No matter how hard I try, I keep going mad at those "newfangled" interfaces - both of them - and end deactivating them after 1 hour.
Good'ole today plugins and Quickmenu rule.
MANILLA!
If I wanted things plain ole, I'd buy a flip phone or something. Manilla looks great, works great and I wouldn't have anything else.
The new ThrottleLauncher 0.9.5 Beta destroys Manilla. I cannot stand how hard it is to customize Manilla (not graphically), where ThrottleLauncher can be customized very easily. The lastest release is quite fast!
MACkjam said:
I use neither, because:
1. Manilla vanilla, shmanilla. Sheesh, if I wanted a touchflo device I would buy a Touch Pro/HD or something like that. Every second thread in development and hacking is about manilla something or other. Enough already.
2. I HATE fingerprints, smears, etc on my screen.
3. HTC Home requires far too much Today real estate!
This is my setup:
PhoneAlarm Pro with B&W pure Skin (small footprint)
PDC (Pocket Digital Clock) with Alien Round fonts
Sun n Moon
Homescreen ++ (Ex Batterystatus) with Tray Icons activated.
SPB Traveller
TodayAgenda
And then I use S2U2 with an animated gif. That's it.
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Yes you can always buy a new device with TouchFLO but roms are something free.
I have used Manila for a few weeks and, trust me, you won't have fingerprints on your screen unless your fingers are sweaty. You will always wipe away your fingerprints with touchs
tanked said:
The new ThrottleLauncher 0.9.5 Beta destroys Manilla. I cannot stand how hard it is to customize Manilla (not graphically), where ThrottleLauncher can be customized very easily. The lastest release is quite fast!
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I'm definitely keeping my eye on ThrottleLauncher. I like it a lot in concept, and customizability is great. But my experimenting with the 0.9.5 Beta didn't impress me much. It still felt a little sluggish and I just couldn't control it as accurately and quickly as manilla.
I need to try loading it onto a lighter ROM and doing a little customization.
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I'm definitely keeping my eye on ThrottleLauncher. I like it a lot in concept, and customizability is great. But my experimenting with the 0.9.5 Beta didn't impress me much. It still felt a little sluggish and I just couldn't control it as accurately and quickly as manilla.
I need to try loading it onto a lighter ROM and doing a little customization.
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Make sure you installed NetCF 3.5, and that apps are set to use it as defualt. I turned off all the transarency and went into the vars.xml and set my fps to 30 (because the editor is 20 max). It's smooth and quick.
PM me if you want the NetCF 3.5 standalone cab and NetCF config tool cab. I don't want to hijack this thread more than I already have.
why doesnt a chef put the new TL on a rom ...that would be so cool
I like having all my info available to me on one screen, especially the weather. I have my phone set up to use HTC home, Calendar++, and weatherbug. I don't have any ugly scrollbars on my screen, I have a clear view of messages, time, next appointments, and weather for the next three days, all without having to click through various screens. Plus, Manilla, HTC Weather, and pretty much any other built-in weather app I've used does not have weather info for my small town I live in, but weatherbug does, plus I get severe weather alerts and it's very customizable.
I hate Manila, it sucks to me! HTC Home allow you to have more things under control on the screen. HTC Home no doubts
I have been using WM6.5 which has been awesome, always love having the latest, thanks to Davideuck, but its not as fast and stable as the cooked 6.1 roms and I would really like to go back to 6.1 but I can't live with out the new Titanium today plugin from WM 6.5, I just really like the fact that there is not bars top and bottom any more, it doesn't bother me with in programs but for the home screen its a really clean interface that still has all the information I need.
Can Titanium be ported to WM6.1???
+1
Love the new 6.5 UI
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I have been using WM6.5 which has been awesome, always love having the latest, thanks to Davideuck, but its not as fast and stable as the cooked 6.1 roms and I would really like to go back to 6.1 but I can't live with out the new Titanium today plugin from WM 6.5, I just really like the fact that there is not bars top and bottom any more, it doesn't bother me with in programs but for the home screen its a really clean interface that still has all the information I need.
Can Titanium be ported to WM6.1???
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I would doubt it. Knowing Microsoft there won't be wholesale changes in the underlying code, but there will be some - probably enough to make porting all bar impossible...or with the same performance constraints found in 6.5.
Personally I don't find performance to be that much of an issue - I've been pleasantly surprised in that respect. I flashed the plain WM6.5 without the TF3D stuff
seal said:
I have been using WM6.5 which has been awesome, always love having the latest, thanks to Davideuck, but its not as fast and stable as the cooked 6.1 roms and I would really like to go back to 6.1 but I can't live with out the new Titanium today plugin from WM 6.5, I just really like the fact that there is not bars top and bottom any more, it doesn't bother me with in programs but for the home screen its a really clean interface that still has all the information I need.
Can Titanium be ported to WM6.1???
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there is a skin for Spb mobile shell that does that
http://pocketnow.com/index.php?a=portal_detail&t=news&id=7028
Great find and great skin but sort of useless seeing its only for QVGA.
Hopefully he will make a VGA version.
I want to get rid of the HTCHome today plugin simply because the clock is too big and takes up too much room.
I am using PDC for the clock and want to find a messaging/email/calls plugin replacement.
I've trawled these forums and searched 'til I'm blue in the face.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Try SPB Mobile Shell (latest version). See www.spbsoftwarehouse.com and install the OMNIA add-on and OMNIA Windows Mobile theme.
See post below:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=424479
You want be dissapointed. A good, simple en very functional replacement of HTC Home.
Succes!
Thanks. I've already looked at Mobile Shell though and that again has a clock that takes up too much of the screen.
What I'm looking for is basically a one line plugin (like the bottom row of HTC Home) that displays messaging/email/calls.
check out phoneAlarm http://www.pocketmax.net/phoneAlarm.html i'm using the phatfinger skin.
think this may be what your looking for.
i've tried other today screen plugins/apps but keep coming back to this
what else are you trying to fit on the screen that you are worried about the clock being big?
OK i tried flashing all the different rooms and they all great and unique in their own ways, and i'm sure everyone has different their preferences. I for example dislike manilla very much. I found HTC home vey useful and way more "to the point" and always find myself going back to it. Now with the creation of new rooms with 6.5 i gotta say i like Chome way better than manilla n maybe not as much as htc home. the thing is that i dislike the windows 6.5 start menu comb n miss the windows 6,6.1 menu n programns layout better. Is there a way to have the 6.5 chome with the classic start menu programs so da i can leave htc home in the past and not worry about manilla. Any rooms da have this would be great and if anycooks can make this happen or anyway knows the steps to do it would be great thanks.
Exactly. I think the layout of the programs/settings is 'neat'. But its a little unorganized. But I can live with it.
im using the today screen rather then TF3D cuz it kills my battery any one know a way to prevent the massacre of my battery or a way of making my today screen better
I have intalled EnergyRom 20090630 and using tf3d2 from Rhodium (with Manila Today page) and battery use is completly normal.
Stock rom are very, very, bad regarding battery. Maybe you should move to another Rom....
Titanium is better
Are you using a 6.5 ROM? I'm not usinf TF3D because I just don't want it. I use teh 6.5 today with a launcher, comm manager (CComm), clock, notifications and music plugins. It couldn't be dreamier.
If you're not on 6.5 yet, get SPB Pocket Plus and Pocket Diary. They made my Today Screen really good for years and I was a happy paying customer