Poking at Gingerbread
Jan. 12th, 2011 04:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
abortrephraseThis afternoon I installed Oxygen on my Desire. To quote from that page:
So far, so good. Gingerbread doesn't seem any less snappy than FroYo was, possibly more. It has a bunch of little interface tweaks and small bits of polish -- various widgets look a little different, there are some extra animation effects, and so on.
This particular ROM comes with a different launcher, a thing called "Zeam". The dock is a little different to the standard one, and there are some handy gesture shortcuts, for example if you swipe down anywhere on the home screen it'll bring up the application menu. The dock icons are more colourful than is usually the case with LauncherPro or ADW.
I've also re-installed Beautiful Widgets -- which I had previously misidentified as a performance killer -- and a new (to me) calendar widget: Agenda Widget. This has the customisability I'd been wanting, and which is completely lacking in most of the calendar/agenda widgets I've seen, including those from HTC and LauncherPro.
It is so far satisfactory. The medium-term tests will be battery use and whether the Exchange sync falls over. Those will probably take a few days to clarify.
"Oxygen ROM is an AOSP source built ROM (ie. not a mod of any sense based ROM), it's minimal, it's superfast and mostly bugfree."
So far, so good. Gingerbread doesn't seem any less snappy than FroYo was, possibly more. It has a bunch of little interface tweaks and small bits of polish -- various widgets look a little different, there are some extra animation effects, and so on.
This particular ROM comes with a different launcher, a thing called "Zeam". The dock is a little different to the standard one, and there are some handy gesture shortcuts, for example if you swipe down anywhere on the home screen it'll bring up the application menu. The dock icons are more colourful than is usually the case with LauncherPro or ADW.
I've also re-installed Beautiful Widgets -- which I had previously misidentified as a performance killer -- and a new (to me) calendar widget: Agenda Widget. This has the customisability I'd been wanting, and which is completely lacking in most of the calendar/agenda widgets I've seen, including those from HTC and LauncherPro.
It is so far satisfactory. The medium-term tests will be battery use and whether the Exchange sync falls over. Those will probably take a few days to clarify.