[Q] Notification drawer/pull-down/tray replacement - Nook Color Themes and Apps

Hi,
I am running PhireMod v6.2 and I have to say that this implementation absolutely beautiful except for one very particular annoying thing that it shares with the rest of the stock android UI - the notification pulldown.
I'm not really sure how this area is called. People have called it "pull-down", "tray", "drawer" and so on.
I'm not talking about the "status bar" or "notification bar", by the way.
I'm talking about the thing that appears when you swipe down (or sometimes swipe up depending on where your notification area is) which contains expanded details of the things you are currently or have finished downloading, expanded text for notifications.
Anyway, it's as fugly as hell and it covers THE WHOLE FREAKING screen when it's pulled down.
Can someone point me to a theme/app/method that would modify this into something a little bit more manageable and less obtrusive? I was thinking of something that would appear similar to Smart Bar (where all notification and notification text would appear in a small bubble on the status bar instead of taking up the length and width of the whole screen).
I've added the picture below for more clarity. I want to get rid of the part inside the red rectangle and replace it with something that makes more sense for a tablet.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

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Bump. I really want this too.
P.S. I think cm7 is more popular, and phiremod is cm7, so just mention cm7

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@ikingblack: hooray for those of us who dare run nook at 1.3Ghz (re: your signature)
I wasn't sure about CM7. I've never tried CM7 and have no idea how the pulldown looks on CM7. Does it look the same?
I'm using Phiremod 6.2 because I'm using rack's solution for a dual boot of Ph6.2+HC both on an SD card

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Wait... you're confusing me.
You said you're not talking about the notification bar. But what you're describing is clearly the notification bar.

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aakbari1024 said:
Wait... you're confusing me.
You said you're not talking about the notification bar. But what you're describing is clearly the notification bar.
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I think the notification bar and pull down shade are 2 separate things, its just on phones to access the pull down shade you swipe from the notification bar. Take the stock nook for example. There is definitely a notification bar however no shade underneath to swipe up.
Or take honeycomb for example it also has a notification bar and no shade to swipe up.
So essentially the notification bar is just the starting point for the pull down shade if the device has one.

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Just to clarify what I meant, the green area is the notification bar or status bar. The area in red is the one that I want to get rid off. It's clunky, inelegant and utterly fugly on a 7-inch.

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Apply a theme from theme Chooser. That will make it transparent so you can see what's doing behind pull down. It doesn't get rid of it but looks better then the flat grey/black wall. I like sculpted or one of the color ones. Go to market and search cyanogenmod.... its the T-Mobile theme Chooser apps. Hope that helped ya.
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I applied the honeybread theme from one of the threads here, looks terrific and makes the "notification drawer" transparent. Much better.