excessive unuseable space on the homescreens

[ethan]

Is anyone else annoyed by this? The top and bottom of the screens being forcibly bare just seems silly to me. Why do that?

 

[capcanuck]

If you use a launcher like adw ex, ypu can create more rows and colomns... that might help

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[delthor7]

It's for landscape, to retain the size of the icons, etc. But I feel ya. Wasted space in portrait.

 

[sunriseshell]

Is anyone else annoyed by this? The top and bottom of the screens being forcibly bare just seems silly to me. Why do that?

Yeah, noticed that too. tried to get the clock up to the top on the home screen to no avail.

 

[ethan]

Yeah, noticed that too. tried to get the clock up to the top on the home screen to no avail.

yup. that was literally the first thing i did after turning it on, and then thought, "well, that's dumb"

 

[NicksGarage]

If you were able to fill the screen up in portrait or landscape mode, how would you expect it to act when you rotate the screen? They'd have to rearrange all the icons and widgets to get them to fit.

 

[ethan]

If you were able to fill the screen up in portrait or landscape mode, how would you expect it to act when you rotate the screen? They'd have to rearrange all the icons and widgets to get them to fit.

It seemed to work in gingerbread...

 

[HalizDad]

It seemed to work in gingerbread...

And GB only went 4 icons across...Once an app is open, it runs full screen.

 

[anesthetish]

I don't understand why they changed so much of the GUI. There was nothing wrong with the way my layouts, clock, or icons looked on portrait or landscape. I'm glad they updated the security, but everything else they did is terrible. It looks cheap, uninteresting, and not made for quick app jumps when you're not on the home screen.

 

[NicksGarage]

It seemed to work in gingerbread...

I updated my View to HC soon after I got it so I didn't spend a lot of time with Gingerbread. But while it looked like it used more of the space when in landscape, it just showed you a piece of the homescreens to the left and right of where you were. It still only used a smaller portion for the active screen, plus you couldn't get many icons on there. I think it was 4 high by 4 wide for 16 icons. Now you can get 30 on a screen.