My last phone was a HTC Desire, now I use the Galaxy S3.
It's a great phone, but what a king size icons and a loss of screen space. On the home screen I have 4x4 space for icons, a large slider 4x1 and a dock for 4x1. When you use some widgets that are 4x2 the half of the screen is filled.
Starting the contact app shows me a few rows of contacts. But with a font size that can be read from outer space.....(font size in settings set to tiny)
Do you agree with this ?
Are there any opportunities (custom roms) to improve this ?
Maybe Apex launcher can solve some of these things...
Change your dpi
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
Nice to have such a choice!
Good to know that the dpi can be changed. But these middle aged eyes of mine will be thrilled that stuff is bigger on the screen. Awesome!
Download Apex Launcher or Nova Launcher. Both are smooth, free and have customizable desktop grids. I really loved the smoothness of the stock GS3 launcher but the lack of space was a dealbreaker for me.
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I know it has been asked but i don't see any good answers.
I want to make icons and text a big bigger.... the screen density is nice, but if i want just 4 rows, then i would like my icons a bit bigger.
It seems SweeterHome 2 is the only option, but it doesn't have a Dock and the learning curve is steep.
Any ideas?
ADW Launcher EX - the paid version lets you increase font size and icon size. I find it just looks better on the higher density screen and i still get to use the Moto widgets.
I don't know where to put this.
I'm using Nova Launcher for ICS and I want to customize it using desktop visualizer (dvr). I have my grid set to 5 rows and 4 columns.
I'm going to create my own icons but need to know the screen real estate space in order to space everything out evenly.
The SGS2 screen resolution for one screen is 480w x 800w.
My question is how much pixel does the dock take up for Nova launcher? As well as the top status bar if it takes any at all. Or how much pixel does the persistant google search bar take? After I take those into consideration, I would have my actual usable screen real estate.
Hope some knowledgeable person can help me out.
I really like having a larger phone but doesn't it seem like it's larger. I would expect more app icons or widgets to fit on a screen but it doesn't. I get some large gaps between my HD widgets and calendars and icons. Also it would be nice to maybe have 1x1 more column and rows for the screen. It seems that there is a lot of wasted space.
Is there any fix?
Thought the same thing so tried both nova and apex launchers (typically the same app) stuck with apex and you can increase the apps to what you want.
Nice application but the icons and text are really tiny on my S2
Until we can change the size of icons, I return to my Nova
go on
alamyr said:
Nice application but the icons and text are really tiny on my S2
Until we can change the size of icons, I return to my Nova
go on
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You have to consider that the program is in beta, and some themes don't work so good.
Yup, we're still in beta.
We're working on icon scaling for a future version which will fix this issue. :victory:
Icons are small since Themer has a grid of 13x9 by default which makes the icons take less space. Change the grid size if you want bigger icons. But it will mess up the theme of course if you are using one.
Themer's icon size
The size of the icon also depends on the grid size. With other launchers, increasing the grid size will lead to icons becoming cropped, Themer makes them smaller.
What may help is increasing the grid size, to do this, go into: Themer Actions > Advanced > Desktop, and you can decrease the grid size from here. Take note that your widgets will be affected and will have to be resized accordingly. Hope this helps!
Hi,
Is there any way to stop Trebuchet from upscaling icons to 120%?
Even if i change the grid to 5x5, the icons stay absurdly big they are just more tight to each other and its even uglier.
I dont want to install another launcher or xposed or fiddle with dpi just for that since i'm very happy with cm and
Trebuchet except the HUGE icons on the Desktop which bothers me a lot.
Dock icon size is pretty perfect.
Just want the desktop icons the same size as the dock icons which must be 100 percent i guess.
Samsung Galaxy Note II with cm12 at default 320dpi.
Thanks
gretel64 said:
Hi,
Is there any way to stop Trebuchet from upscaling icons to 120%?
Even if i change the grid to 5x5, the icons stay absurdly big they are just more tight to each other and its even uglier.
I dont want to install another launcher or xposed or fiddle with dpi just for that since i'm very happy with cm and
Trebuchet except the HUGE icons on the Desktop which bothers me a lot.
Dock icon size is pretty perfect.
Just want the desktop icons the same size as the dock icons which must be 100 percent i guess.
Samsung Galaxy Note II with cm12 at default 320dpi.
Thanks
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wrong thread and I never liked cm's launcher.
No i like cm launcher