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what icons do you have?

I use whatever I want. Downloaded a red/black icon pack, but not every icon I had on my homescreen had an icon available, and some of the ones that did, I didn't like. But with ADW Launcher, if you long-press on an icon and then hit Edit, you can change the icon to whatever you want. So I just surf Google Images until I find something I want to use for an icon, save it to the phone, and then assign it to that icon. I don't ned no steeking icon packs, LOL!
 
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if you look in the "What does your X screen look like" thread (here), you can probably get a better idea of some great icon packs people use

my current one:
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also, this has been a great thread of icon pack collections:
ICON SETS | OVER *300* different Icon Packs - xda-developers
 
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hahaha, right on.

i was using launcher pro, what's the major difference between that and ADW?

seems it's kind of 50/50 on who prefers what.


I used to use Launcher Pro, but switched to ADW because I was having Force Closes multiple times a day from LP. It was something to do with the autorotate. So I switched, and I like the themes available in the Market for ADW, they make a nice base to start from, so I've just stayed with it.
 
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Using Launcher Pro and never had an issue even once with a Force Close.

However, I did disable auto rotate. I'm not a fan of that feature with icons switching around all the time. That seems to give most of the headache. Anytime I see someone with LauncherPro problems, inevitably they have auto rotate enabled.

I like autorotate, so that is a problem with LP that I couldn't deal with. I have since found that you can disable the homescreen autorotate while leaving it working on the browser (where I want to use it most often), but I'm hooked on ADW now, so I'm not going to switch back right now.
 
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i am an absolute penguin fanatic so i love these icons except since none of them have any meaning for what i would use them for, i would constantly click on the wrong thing.

Grow your own. I used the penguin icon pack you listed and an icon pack I found HERE to create this:

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Use any good editing software. I use PaintShopPro, but Gimp is free. Yes there is a learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, you can create stuff like this in a few minutes (longer if you're OCD and gotta get it just right, like me).

And before you ask, sorry, I won't make more. This is just an example. While I'm decent at it, it can be tedious work. I've gotta have a passion for it. My penguin passion has peeked and my probability of perpetuating the project has passed. Sorry
 
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