1. joejuck's Avatar
    It would look so much nicer without them. IMO I made a mock up. (not perfect but I'll use it)
    I really wish BB took out the grey boxes around apps-wallpaper-.png
    I really wish BB took out the grey boxes around apps-wallpaper-no-boxes.png

    Posted via CB10
    01-05-14 07:35 PM
  2. waterfrontmgmt's Avatar
    I actually like the uniform look. But I also use a black background to save battery.

    Posted via CB10
    01-05-14 07:40 PM
  3. onlyoneromeo's Avatar
    oooommmmmgggggg....i was JUST gonna post the same thing. is there any kind of app where we can customize the look and homescreens of the z?
    joejuck likes this.
    01-05-14 07:42 PM
  4. HotFix's Avatar
    oooommmmmgggggg....i was JUST gonna post the same thing. is there any kind of app where we can customize the look and homescreens of the z?
    Not today.

    Posted via CB10 on a Z10STL100-3/10.2.1.1925
    01-05-14 07:45 PM
  5. joejuck's Avatar
    oooommmmmgggggg....i was JUST gonna post the same thing. is there any kind of app where we can customize the look and homescreens of the z?
    Lol I I guess I beat you to it. I messed up a lot tho

    Posted via CB10
    01-05-14 07:56 PM
  6. MartyMcfly's Avatar
    I agree. The shadows look very amateurish. Your mock-up looks good!


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    01-05-14 08:02 PM
  7. Shantanu Gupta's Avatar
    Your mockup looks good but is illegible.

    I would prefer a alpha block on the entire wallpaper instead of just around the icons. (If you're on windows 8.1, set start menu to use the same background as your desktop and see the difference between the wallpaper on desktop and start screen). They could also just drop shadows from app icon which would get to do away with alpha block altogether.
    01-05-14 08:20 PM
  8. joejuck's Avatar
    I realized that as well. It's hard to read after you remove the boxes. That's probably why bb has done it like this. If there was a way to make the words easy to read without putting a box around the app it would be perfect.

    Posted via CB10
    01-05-14 08:26 PM
  9. NightFire's Avatar
    The text seems easier to read with the shadow boxes. But I miss using themes, too. Having a choice is nice.

    Posted via CB10
    01-05-14 08:30 PM
  10. Benjamin_NYC's Avatar
    It's hideous without the boxes. The boxes are better. End of story.

    Sent from my white hot Z10 Rocking Leaked 10.2
    Pdinos3 likes this.
    01-05-14 08:30 PM
  11. trinichindian's Avatar
    What I was thinking, is a slider option in the settings that you can slide and it would adjust the opaqueness of the background around the icons.

    The more customisable the better.


    <Zedding 10.2 hybridized>
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    01-05-14 08:33 PM
  12. Benjamin_NYC's Avatar
    What I was thinking, is a slider option in the settings that you can slide and it would adjust the opaqueness of the background around the icons.

    The more customisable the better.


    <Zedding 10.2 hybridized>
    Oh who cares? What a waste of energy this would be. Maybe they should focus on getting important thing to work like Contacts and Calendar.

    Sent from my white hot Z10 Rocking Leaked 10.2
    Pdinos3 likes this.
    01-05-14 08:41 PM
  13. san4berry's Avatar
    I agree, and have been saying it since day one, but now it's the least of their problems.
    01-05-14 08:47 PM
  14. anon(3940229)'s Avatar
    I fully agree about alpha blocker.

    I like to play around with her design, and one thing that I notice is to much shape repetitiveness causes the interface to look cluttered.

    Another possibility is to make the white font, with black outline, this makes it readable, and quite simple.

    If you want a mock up, press a power button, and turn on your lock screen.

    Posted via CB10
    01-05-14 08:47 PM
  15. trinichindian's Avatar
    Oh who cares? What a waste of energy this would be. Maybe they should focus on getting important thing to work like Contacts and Calendar.

    Sent from my white hot Z10 Rocking Leaked 10.2
    Relax, dude. Take a chill pill.

    We know they are a lot of things they need to work on. The OP is just making an opinion on this. This is what forums are for.

    <Zedding 10.2 hybridized>
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    01-05-14 08:58 PM
  16. richardS1881's Avatar
    LOVE IT!!!! Also maybe an option to disable showing app names. I figure by now everyone knows what the facebook app looks like. And with that spare space, the user option to add an extra row of app icons.

    Also would like the freedom of locating apps where ever i want. Like how it is on windows.
    EX) So you can only have say 4 apps at the bottom of the first page so your wallpaper is displayed more. Locate them where ever you want on the screen, not one after the other starting from the top left working its way down to the bottom.
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    01-05-14 09:15 PM
  17. Benjamin_NYC's Avatar
    Relax, dude. Take a chill pill.

    We know they are a lot of things they need to work on. The OP is just making an opinion on this. This is what forums are for.

    <Zedding 10.2 hybridized>
    I am also making my opinion on this. It's ugly. That's why forums are for.

    Sent from my white hot Z10 Rocking Leaked 10.2
    Pdinos3 likes this.
    01-05-14 09:21 PM
  18. Bishkin's Avatar
    oooommmmmgggggg....i was JUST gonna post the same thing. is there any kind of app where we can customize the look and homescreens of the z?
    try via the android runtime, it that works nicely, you can scale the size, the number of them on the screen, change the colors etc ....
    01-05-14 09:39 PM
  19. koves's Avatar
    I really wish BB took out the grey boxes around apps-img_00001072.png

    I just use a black background

    Posted via CB10
    01-05-14 09:44 PM
  20. heyjohnnybravo's Avatar
    Oh who cares? What a waste of energy this would be. Maybe they should focus on getting important thing to work like Contacts and Calendar.

    Sent from my white hot Z10 Rocking Leaked 10.2
    You need to get off of BB10 and get a new phone. You seriously have issues with everything about it.
    trinichindian and curvezzz like this.
    01-05-14 09:53 PM
  21. playboldbook's Avatar
    I wonder what it would look like if they put a raised rim (emboss?) on the grey box that some how absorbed the colour of the background, to kind of make the edge of box pop a bit? Otherwise, yes I tend to use dark backgrounds to hide to grey box.
    01-05-14 09:53 PM
  22. joejuck's Avatar
    That's not a bad idea. I think it would look like iOS7-ish. But it might look good. The only thing is the app name legibility, like the initial problem with no boxes.

    Posted via CB10
    01-05-14 10:00 PM
  23. cbvinh's Avatar
    01-05-14 10:01 PM
  24. agarwal.apar's Avatar
    I agree with OP.. no grey boxes.. total waste.. May be 10.3 ?
    01-05-14 10:17 PM
  25. HotFix's Avatar
    It would be nice if they provided a toggle as that seems like it would be simple enough to do. Then again I am not a BlackBerry 10 programmer. :-)

    Posted via CB10 on a Z10STL100-3/10.2.1.1925
    01-05-14 10:31 PM
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