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Make you're P800 look and act like Widows XP

48 replies · 14,345 views · Started 12 November 2003

Make your P800/P900 feel like Windows XP. This Tracker 3.0 skin gives you a fully interactive Windows XP feel, with real working desktop, start menu, today screen and control panel features. The most complete P800 to Windows feel you can find. Just add all your favorite shortcuts to the desktop and start menu. Beam the skin to your phone or use Epocware file manager and place it in the Tracker skin directory on your phone.

http://www.handango.com/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=1&osId=240&jid=9XAXE2975C1DE89774C6DE1X12D44D72&catalog=0&sectionId=0&productType=2&platformId=4&productId=91564

Attachments: total-xp.gif

so when we close tracker with this xp skin loaded, will it give us the blue screen of death? 😃

love it...taken the best bits of Win XP (the look) and sit it on a decent operating system

Bugs are minor, (part of the B in KB under system memory gets cut off) and when the clock reaches a 4 digit time part of the last dig is cut off. This is not my fault but the compilers'. I will try to fix. People who already bought the skin can just re-download it from handango for free. This was a tuff skin to make (using symbianware's compiler and all) The new pop up menus took a while to perfect. Keep checking back for updates. Thanks everyone for all your interest.

There is in fact no new code or POP-up menu... lolll
It's just another page with a menu/image background!!!!
Nothing special about that!
And they are some other bugs...

This skin look nice, and seems to be much better then your other one who is completly useless and quite annoying to use.

If someone buy it, can he send it me? I would like to test it.

But i see where you took your inspiration... lolll and this one is for FREE. It's the one i used before i got back to handyday

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DonDula,great job!Still waiting for that KDE,Gnome skin 😉

blue3800,requesting software that has to be bought is considered illegal.AAS has a very strict policy about warez so,don't do it again.BTW😃o you really think he got his inspiration form a unfinished PocketPC today screen skin (without any dissrespect to the author of the other skin)when he made almost an exact replica of PocketPC 2002 in terms of look.

Originally posted by GhostDog
Do you really think he got his inspiration form a unfinished PocketPC today screen skin (without any dissrespect to the author of the other skin)when he made almost an exact replica of PocketPC 2002 in terms of look. [/B]

??? unfinished todayscreen?? What are you talking about,? lollll
His today view is quite the same with less function then this one...

This is an existing FREE skin called PPC800.
You can find it for example here: http://escape.to/tracko

It works great and quite fast.... it's not full of new background and new pages like the tric the other used in all his skin to show what he calls menu pop-ups... a new skin who looks great, i agree, but i don't want to have a perfect copy of a PPC, why does it have to be a copy of something ugly? lolll

DonDula's skin is a full PPC 2002 skin,not just a today screen.PPC's interface being ugly?That might be your opinion.Mine is that PPC's UI is one of the best in PDA's.

BTW:No one is forcing you to buy anything.

Only a today view, where did you get that idea? The PPC800 is made of 4 full functionning pages. The icon used are mine and you can naturally used the one you like...

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Wow, thanks for the the suppost ghostdog, I really don't understand why blue is so pissed he's gone on three different forums already and does nothing but bash my skins. Like if he thinks they suck then he should not buy them right? Blue, obviously some people out there enjoy using my skins otherwise I don't think I woulda had 500 d/ls in 10 days. So please calm down.

I tested his new skin for 5 minutes and did allready find some big problems...

-it used 12 pages!!! just to make it looks like one with 4 pages and pop-up menu's
-no possibility to make shortcuts in the TodayView page !!! 😞
-if you put a shortcut in the Start view you never will be capable to delete it because there is no TrachCan !!! 😞
-some buttons who are not functionning or not functionning well (bad shortcut) for example : "modify" under Settings does nothing or "NewCall" under Settings is a link to SMS or "Sounds&Notification" under Settings is a link to the intern soundplayer.
-memory is STILL gived up as 70416k with no b or as 2897kt...
-no minimize function
-etc

@DonDula: I just think that a Betaversion of a skin should be for free till it's working well and for 100%, like almost all beta's for new software.
If you ask money for something, wait first till it's OK! And don't sell things knowing it has problems!
And your problem with letters missing is a problem with that SkinStudio, i had it too till i found the solution.. lollll

Yeah, right. Like all apps (that are out of there beta-stage) are bug-free. Most of the times the first "full-version" of an app (or skin in this case) still has some bugs (look at Windows XP for example, and I don't mean the skin, but the OS😊).
Usually, if the bugs are found, a free upgrade for those who bought it, is provided (I don't want to push you to do anything DonDula😉, I'm just trying to tackle Blue's statement that all full-versions should be bug-free)

Originally posted by Delta737
Yeah, right. Like all apps (that are out of there beta-stage) are bug-free. Most of the times the first "full-version" of an app (or skin in this case) still has some bugs (look at Windows XP for example, and I don't mean the skin, but the OS😊).

That's 100% right Delta..
But those skin are not yet out there beta-stages, they are to much obvious and easy to find bugs and problems to call that a full-version... and that's my all point.
He knows those problems, he just can't fix them (there he don't have the skill to do that i think) and still he try to sell it, i call that fraud...

seriously what are we talking about. Using words like fraud, for real when I release these skins to my standard they work fine, and I am always re-submitting upgrades to handango and my-symbian which are availbe for free for people who have already bought the skin. My new skin for example works so closely to that of the pocket pc interface that for the 4 dollars that I charge ( which I only see half of) I feel people are getting there moneys worth. Just because all the pop up menus are really different pages shouldn't mean anything it still functions they way it would if it weren't different pages. I just think that you're being a lil hard on me, I feel that you single me out on these forums and just pick apart my work. Also it really sucks that you were sending it to many people for free, but I guess thats the software world. Again I'm sorry for the small bugs but I am always updating untill I reach perfection. As for the pocket pc skin there is a minimize button on the main page its the X button in the corner. I have to travle for about a week but when I come back I will try to resolve the rest of the small probs with both skins. As for the time getting cut off, if you know a way of fixing it I wish you would share, because thats basically the one major flaw with both skins. I was thinking if I make the width value of the time larger in the creat lable mode that should fix it, tell me if i'm wrong.
The bottem line is take it easy on me Blue

The X button normally CLOSE the application, not minimize...
And the fact that you can't put shortcuts in the most important page (TodayView) is not a good idea.

I could of made it like that but thats not how pocket pc software is setup. The whole idea around the skin is to have it mimic pocket pc 2002 UI

Good job DonDula, I still think that ur skins r worth buying, even if they have some bugs (who's perfect?)..

anyway, it's better if u test those skins on some of ur friends who own P800, so u can get a better feedback b4 get them on selling.
it's just for ur image in the market😉

keep up the good work, and eez up on him guys 😊