Iamundernodisguise~
Let me start with two facts: First, being able to do anything on S60v5 using only the touchscreen except entering the main menu is annoying. Second, finding a wallpaper that has the proper amount of er… top padding (245px!) so that important parts of it won’t get obscured by the shortcut bar is kinda hard!
First issue is solved by adding a main menu icon to the shortcut bar in active standby. I’m not the only one that does that, pretty much any desktop thread on mobile phone forums will have something like that. That brings you the second issue. Say you’re in a huge SVIIB mood lately and you’ve found this totally sweet promo pic of them. But when setting it as your wallpaper, the icons obscure their heads. That’s clearly no good!
The solution I’ve found (at least I’ve never heard about it being done before) is to simply add an application with a transparent icon in those slots. So there I went, fired up my html editor and made a simple WRT widget, if you open it, you get a black screen, tap it (or the softkeys) to close it.
Throw it on a obscure menu folder, and just pretend there are no icons on those places. :P It doesn’t solve the dotted line problem, but that’s a theme thing, so no easy way to edit it. If you only have one icon there you win 280x100px of screen real estate to display your wallpaper!
And for the obligatory rant at Nokia paragraph: None of this would be needed if they’d let you keep empty slots. Or even better, port the 5530/5230/every other S60v5 phone’s homescreen to the 5800! The fixed Contacts and Dialpad icons are ridiculous! Some 5800 love please. :P
Update: So I was playing with a Nokia X6 on RDA today and decided to try this there too, disable all homescreen plugins but the shortcuts one.
DEFINITELY CLASSIER YOU GUYS
Srsly Nokia, give us the new homescreen! D:
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