Change desktop contacts shortcuts size
 

I'm sure this has been discussed here somewhere, but couldn't find it, although I skimmed most of the "Customization" thread...

How can I change the size of the (huge) contact shortcuts on the desktop (if it's possible at all)?

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that is a place to put in your contact's photograph

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I'm not sure I understand...

I know that tweaker app allows you to change the browser links that appear on the desktop, so they must be kept somewhere, and probably that's the same place that the contact's shortcuts are saved, right?

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I'm not sure how to resize them.
I am not impressed with how they're sized either.
App links are TINY, widgets are huge (I have not tried contacts).
I'm sure there is something that can be used to resize icons.
I would like them all evenly sized.

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About widgets, some of them can change their own size, for example the Desktop Execution widget. But there's nothing in the Wiki on how they do that (change some configuartion file? I guess not, probably they do it programatically, based on a saved configuration).

I can't find the location where the contacts shortcuts are saved. I've tried /usr/share/applications/hildon, but it contains only applications. I also tried /usr/lib/hildon-desktop - but couldn't find any relevant file in that folder about which contacts appear on the desktop.

Anybody has any idea for where this data is being saved?

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browser links and contact links have only one thing in common: both can be placed in the desktop....

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So both of them must be located in same folder especially purposed for that, right?

My quest is finding that folder...

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The contacts widgets frame etc are in the theme/images folder of the theme your using, i think it would be easy to resize, will have a go in the next few hours and post my results

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This is what iv come up with ..
Attachment 9186

I had to resize default avatars for it to fit in the new small frame, so adding custom avatars will be to big and wont fit in the frame.

:D

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My eyes are 57 years young and the Icons are to small....:eek:

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Is there no way that the contact shortcut is made smaller and the corresponding avatar is shrunk to fit the new size? I find the current size too big myself.

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So basically the avatars needs to be resized manually? hmm...
And do you have any idea where I can find the avatars?
what folder?

BTW: according to the theme/images folder, you said it have to be the same theme I'm using. Are you sure? Doesn't the "default" folder is sym-linked to the current theme folder (or to the "alpha" folder)?

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Well if it's only the avatar/default avatar's size that matters, I can write an app that backups the old avatar and resizes the contact's avatars that appear on the desktop.

But for that I need to know where these shortcuts are being saved in order to track them.

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once you set the avater there saved in home/user/.osso.abook/photos

the default avaters are in usr/share/icons/hicolor/216x216/hildon

this mod can work with any theme as long as the contact frame is resized in the themes image folder.

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I have been looking for a couple of days now. This must be the closest thread for my problem.

I would like to make my application shortcut widgets on the desktop smaller. Right now they are 96px and i want them to be around 48px. I want the desktop to have a more slim look.

I do not know which conf-file to edit. I have found my current themes application bg-pics. I am guessing that changing the size of these will not change the actual size on the desktop, right? Is there a global conf-file for these or is it localized for the theme.?

I am using the humanity-theme right now.

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Neatly....

Change desktop contacts shortcuts size


For changing size of desktop contacts shortcuts, go to:
/usr/share/themes/YOUR_THEME/images

Find the contacts widgets frames:
ContactsAppletFrame.png and ContactsAppletFrameActive.png (backup them)

Resize them to your favorite size and overwrite the originals.
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You also have to resize the default and contact's avatars for it to fit in the new small frame.

The default avatars are in:
usr/share/icons/hicolor/216x216/hildon (Backup them and resize only if you use them on your desktop)

The contact's avatars are in:
/home/user/.osso-abook/photos

Probably, here you see the files without suffix, just copy them to your PC, add to them the suffix ".png", find your contact's avatars and resize them.
After this, delete the suffix ".png" and move them back to your phone (overwrite the originals).

Done !

P.S. This mod can work with any theme as long as the contact frame is resized in the themes image folder.


Thanks to biggzy for tips and to omeriko9 for idea ;)

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which size do you choce for the images?
maybe you could upload the files?

cheers

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***push***

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see if i have an image of the guy what am i supposed to do then? is there any other option to edit some file to change the default size? or i have to resize the photo size too?

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Actually I'm looking too for a way to resize a .png image inside the N900, anyone has an idea for a command line tool to do this?

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Imagemagick is in -devel, no idea if it's optified...

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This doesn't work.. anyway i did not for me. I managed to resize the ContactsAppletFrames to the desired size but when i want to change the contacts images it fails.

I rename the desired contact picture to a .png then i resize it with imagemagick to 90x90. When i remove and remake the contact.. the size of the image doesn't change. Also restarting doesn't help. Even though when i look it up it is 90x90. The ContactApplet still is 144x144 or stretched to it.

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Did someone actually do this successful or do we need someone like Matan to hack it? I do not know where this should be done as Matan said it was not in hildon-home. I believe that as if you kill hildon-home the contact are still visible when the other things disappear. Maybe it's in hildon-desktop. I am not aware how to find it in gconf but someone els maybe understand and could help out...

So some help would be nice ;)

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Hi
I don't tried this, but you can try also change the original contact pic, from where you add them to the contacts (MyDoc/.images) :confused:

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Thanks for the reply. I have been trying to do this a couple of hours now and that answer helped me understand i did not do anything wrong.

It would not help to do like that i'm afraid. I suspect it resizes/stretches the image thus making it futile to try. I think we need something similar to what Matan did in this thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...801#post703801

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I tried now all of this process, and you are right, we have a problem with the contact-pictures that we need to resize them. It's not pic from this folder (/home/user/.osso-abook/photos) :( We need found them...

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Yes it is i am afraid. It is the correct place. Try to remove it and you will see. It will become a general avatar. The only way is to hack the process that handles it. Like in the post i described.

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got a link for this background mate?

edit: found it on prismic

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Have been looking more on this subject and found one more puzzle bit. It is not enough to just resize the ContactsAppletFrame.png and ContactsAppletFrameActive.png. Also ContactsAppletMask.png need to be resized.

The same problem still exists though.. the actual widget doesn't get resized just the images. It just get transparent.

I attach my screenshot. The marked read are clickable but transparent.

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Yes, I know... I tried this too. We need to found how to change the image size :/

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Do we have a hacker who are up to this? It should be possible as Matan did it for the ApplicationApplets in this thread. But the ContactShortcuts seams to be in a different process..

Someone?

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I am not sure but the process that we are looking for is not called "ContactShortcut..." but "/usr/bin/osso-abook-home-applet". I found that out by putting a contactshortcut on the desktop and quickly look in "top". Then that process was started up.

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Tell me please, after resizing of contact pictures here: /home/user/.osso-abook/photos, are you tried a leave the PNG suffix and putting the pictures back ?

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Yes, i have tried both. It is not this. I have managed to resize the pictures and images but not the "space".

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Anyone still working on finding a fix for this?

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Did playing around with this today and it seems the device resizes the shortcuts so merely reducing the file size will not achieve the desired effect. All that will happen is that you will get your shortcut image being less clear because it has been blown up.

So any other ideas?

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No, we need someone knowledgable to hack the hildon-desktop.. if this is decided there? It is hardcoded somewhere and it is not possible just to change the images.. me to have tried that.

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any ideas to resize the contacts shortcut?