After using Nova Launcher forever, I decided to run the 9+ stock for a while and recreated my screens. However, the icons are gigantic. Is there a setting I am missing to change the icon size? It seems there is a limit as to what I can modify on the stock home.
Search it bro there setting for it :good:
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Search it bro there setting for it :good:
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Searched, 'bro', and didn't find. That is why I asked.
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Search it bro there setting for it :good:
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Are you sure there's a setting for smaller icons? You can adjust screen resolution and grid spacing. Neither of those options impact actual icon size. I don't think I've stumbled across a setting for icon sizes aside from maybe assistive super sizing.
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Are you sure there's a setting for smaller icons? You can adjust screen resolution and grid spacing. Neither of those options impact actual icon size. I don't think I've stumbled across a setting for icon sizes aside from maybe assistive super sizing.
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Yup. I've yet to find a setting that will change the icon size on the native "TouchWiz" launcher. Maybe they get a little smaller when you have the screen grid at the highest setting (5x6), but this has no impact on the home screen dock, which is where my icons and folder live.
Hosehead said:
After using Nova Launcher forever, I decided to run the 9+ stock for a while and recreated my screens. However, the icons are gigantic. Is there a setting I am missing to change the icon size? It seems there is a limit as to what I can modify on the stock home.
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Dont mind the other guy. I know what u r talking about and is fair question to ask for most noob new to touchwiz.
Unlike nova which u can minimize icon size. U cant do this in touchwiz. There are other way but are limited
Changin grid to 5x6 home screen or/and change ur dpi. If u go to developer mode. The highest dpi for touchwiz 456 before it breaks. asuming you have wqhd+ resolution. If u go any higher touchwiz icon just minimize to small. Also the samsung keyboard breaks.
Try using 5x6, dpi to 456 and see if that small enough for u, if not then u would have to use another launcher.
eduardmc said:
Dont mind the other guy. I know what u r talking about and is fair question to ask for most noob new to touchwiz.
Unlike nova which u can minimize icon size. U cant do this in touchwiz. There are other way but are limited
Changin grid to 5x6 home screen or/and change ur dpi. If u go to developer mode. The highest dpi for touchwiz 456 before it breaks. asuming you have wqhd+ resolution. If u go any higher touchwiz icon just minimize to small. Also the samsung keyboard breaks.
Try using 5x6, dpi to 456 and see if that small enough for u, if not then u would have to use another launcher.
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Giving it a try. Not horrible. Guess I am just spoiled with Nova, Lol. Thanks for the guidance.
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This actually worked for me. Thank you.
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Been running the 2.1 alpha and I'm quite happy with it. So thanks to the dev's for the awesome work.
But my fat fingers have trouble using the tiny softbuttons for the home, back etc keys.
Can the size of these buttons be increased? It doesn't seem that ADW themes affect the soft keys at all and I cant find any setting for there size.
I realize alot of people dont want big buttons taking up screen space but I have grown to appreciate the nice big Webos style buttons.
thanks!
eccl1213 said:
Been running the 2.1 alpha and I'm quite happy with it. So thanks to the dev's for the awesome work.
But my fat fingers have trouble using the tiny softbuttons for the home, back etc keys.
Can the size of these buttons be increased? It doesn't seem that ADW themes affect the soft keys at all and I cant find any setting for there size.
I realize alot of people dont want big buttons taking up screen space but I have grown to appreciate the nice big Webos style buttons.
thanks!
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Agreed.
I'd also like to see an option to move around to one of the other three sides. Like I'd like to have it positioned on the top rather than bottom.
a40dayflud818 said:
Agreed.
I'd also like to see an option to move around to one of the other three sides. Like I'd like to have it positioned on the top rather than bottom.
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U can move your status bar(inclusing soft button) to the top using adw ex
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There is an option in the tablet tweaks that have where you can move it to the top.
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Do you know if ADW EX can also modify the size?
All I've found so far is resizing of the launcher dock, and when I've tried a few setting it did not affect the soft buttons.
I do see in the setting under cyanogenmod settings you can move the soft buttons to the top.
U can move your status bar(inclusing soft button) to the top using adw ex
I have install ADW ex, the soft button and dock are show abnormal !
Anyone got same problem?
The status bar isn't part of a launcher; it's part of the OS/UI. As someone above mentioned, the bottom status bar is actually part of a set of tablet-oriented UI changes called Tablet Tweaks that were implemented in particular for the Nook Color, though obviously we're reaping the benefits now on the TouchPad as well! Perhaps the confusion about ADW comes from the fact that ADW's menu provides quick access to system settings as well as ADW settings?
Anyway, you can move the entire status bar back to the top of the screen in the Settings>CynanogenMod settings>Tablet tweaks screen. Just uncheck "Bottom status bar" and it'll be on the top. If you'd prefer the buttons on the right side, uncheck "Soft-buttons left". You can also select exactly which set of soft buttons you want.
There are two ways to change the size of the buttons: 1) I believe different CM7 themes can provide different size images; 2) You can change the LCD density to something higher than 160 (the default for the TouchPad's screen). The latter will scale everything, though, and might affect the usability of some apps, so be careful!
If you want to change the size of the buttons, you will need to choose a theme that works with the CM7 Theme Chooser.
I recommend this. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1311339
joenathane has a couple good ones.
I installed a couple of his nook themes.
They are very nice on the touchpad....but the softbutton is still the same size.
I'll have to wait for a theme...but at least I know what to look for.
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I installed a couple of his nook themes.
They are very nice on the touchpad....but the softbutton is still the same size.
I'll have to wait for a theme...but at least I know what to look for.
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They are definitely not the same size at all.
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The status bar isn't part of a launcher; it's part of the OS/UI. As someone above mentioned, the bottom status bar is actually part of a set of tablet-oriented UI changes called Tablet Tweaks that were implemented in particular for the Nook Color, though obviously we're reaping the benefits now on the TouchPad as well! Perhaps the confusion about ADW comes from the fact that ADW's menu provides quick access to system settings as well as ADW settings?
Anyway, you can move the entire status bar back to the top of the screen in the Settings>CynanogenMod settings>Tablet tweaks screen. Just uncheck "Bottom status bar" and it'll be on the top. If you'd prefer the buttons on the right side, uncheck "Soft-buttons left". You can also select exactly which set of soft buttons you want.
There are two ways to change the size of the buttons: 1) I believe different CM7 themes can provide different size images; 2) You can change the LCD density to something higher than 160 (the default for the TouchPad's screen). The latter will scale everything, though, and might affect the usability of some apps, so be careful!
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Worked like a charm. +1 Thanks!
I use LCD Resolution (free in the Market) and change the value from 160 to 200 (the max on the TP). Don't forget to check the "Set on Boot" option. This actually makes everything bigger by 25% (noticable but not to terribly huge).
I love it.
An other option is to use button savior, it's an additional softkey toolbar with bigger buttons. A free version is available here on xda. Look at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865525
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I use LCD Resolution (free in the Market) and change the value from 160 to 200 (the max on the TP). Don't forget to check the "Set on Boot" option. This actually makes everything bigger by 25% (noticable but not to terribly huge).
I love it.
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the max lcd density is 280. you can manually edit or use any editor for build.prop. I use rom toolbox myself. but you can find it within build.prop as ro.sf.lcd_density. I've used it at 240 for hdpi themes. if the hdpi theme doesn't seem to fit right then just adjust the lcd density. you can use adw launcher pro to reduce the overall size of the icons.
Hi all,
I'm sure all of you are flashing CM7 stable builds on your Atrix rite now and ADW Launcher is default in the ROMs.
I know our Atrix has a larger resolution (960x540) than most phones, so ADW's AB icons (the 5 icons in the dock bar) looks pretty small on screen, even though I set the size of AB icons to maximum 10. Anyone knows how to set it bigger than 10 in settings so that it would look nicer on our Atrix??? thanks in advance
Just adjust the DPI settings in build.prop. It will make Market act a little funny with some programs not being able to be downloaded or paid for, but you can adjust everything as big or small as you want. If you need Market, just reset the settings to 240 and yer good to go. I'm sure there are other alternatives but that's what I do cause i have 99% of my programs backed up with Anttek Appmanager, which is free AND turns anything you download and install into an installable .apk for a later date. I know, smexy. Kinda like TiBu except free.
Wouldnt that compromise the screen resolution and would make it all blurry since i basically fatten every thing up???
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Wouldnt that compromise the screen resolution and would make it all blurry since i basically fatten every thing up???
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Yes, so I'd avoid that. If adw lets you use custom icons, you could always manually resize them on your computer. I use irfanview to edit custom icons that I use with launcherpro. 96x96 pixels is the average size. Try something larger.
unfortunately, i don't think ADW support custom icons, unless you install like a whole new theme with preinstall icon set in theme.....
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unfortunately, i don't think ADW support custom icons, unless you install like a whole new theme with preinstall icon set in theme.....
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*cough* launcher pro *cough*
ADW does support custom icons, just hold down on the icon and then hit edit.
also, you can get an app called OldMarket that allows you to swap between the old market which allows you to download any app, despite of your LCD Density (i have mine set to 180, high resolution FTW - phone has never looked any better)
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ADW does support custom icons, just hold down on the icon and then hit edit.
also, you can get an app called OldMarket that allows you to swap between the old market which allows you to download any app, despite of your LCD Density (i have mine set to 180, high resolution FTW - phone has never looked any better)
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This. +1
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Hi, I'm running the Verizon Galaxy Note2 JediX rom, overclocked 1.9ghz kernel with interactive governor, and I changed the dpi setting to 240 instead of 320. Like the way it looks, I already flashed all the zip files for touchwiz launcher, camera, calculator, dialer, and Samsung keyboard and they are all working great on this 240 setting. The only thing I'm not liking is that some of the the widgets don't stretch or resize across the whole screen (like the Google search widget is 4x1 and I need it to be 5x1 to fit across entire top of screen) this is really bothering me, if anyone else is OCD about the layout of their home screens, then you know how I feel. Does anyone know of a solution for this? A way to resize any widget I want?
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Hi, I'm running the Verizon Galaxy Note2 JediX rom, overclocked 1.9ghz kernel with interactive governor, and I changed the dpi setting to 240 instead of 320. Like the way it looks, I already flashed all the zip files for touchwiz launcher, camera, calculator, dialer, and Samsung keyboard and they are all working great on this 240 setting. The only thing I'm not liking is that some of the the widgets don't stretch or resize across the whole screen (like the Google search widget is 4x1 and I need it to be 5x1 to fit across entire top of screen) this is really bothering me, if anyone else is OCD about the layout of their home screens, then you know how I feel. Does anyone know of a solution for this? A way to resize any widget I want?
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Nova or Nova Prime Launcher allows you to resize widgets and overlap them.
Nova Prime and Apex paid version do what you want. Go launcher does it as well, but it doesn't run good on ICS or Jelly Bean. I'm sure there are many others but these are the ones I've used.
Sorry guys, I should have been more clear. I want to keep touchwiz launcher.i just want to be able to resize any widget any way I want in touchwiz. Is this possible?
negative.
what nunyazz said...also why are u overclocking at 1900? all that is doing is chewing thru your battery with very very I mean very little performance gain.
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what nunyazz said...also why are u overclocking at 1900? all that is doing is chewing thru your battery with very very I mean very little performance gain.
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This is why. And my battery life is actually running great. Lol I asked for help with my widgets not my kernel sir.
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Hi, I'm running the Verizon Galaxy Note2 JediX rom, overclocked 1.9ghz kernel with interactive governor, and I changed the dpi setting to 240 instead of 320. Like the way it looks, I already flashed all the zip files for touchwiz launcher, camera, calculator, dialer, and Samsung keyboard and they are all working great on this 240 setting. The only thing I'm not liking is that some of the the widgets don't stretch or resize across the whole screen (like the Google search widget is 4x1 and I need it to be 5x1 to fit across entire top of screen) this is really bothering me, if anyone else is OCD about the layout of their home screens, then you know how I feel. Does anyone know of a solution for this? A way to resize any widget I want?
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How did you change your system dpi to 240?
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Best possible
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Hi, I'm running the Verizon Galaxy Note2 JediX rom, overclocked 1.9ghz kernel with interactive governor, and I changed the dpi setting to 240 instead of 320. Like the way it looks, I already flashed all the zip files for touchwiz launcher, camera, calculator, dialer, and Samsung keyboard and they are all working great on this 240 setting. The only thing I'm not liking is that some of the the widgets don't stretch or resize across the whole screen (like the Google search widget is 4x1 and I need it to be 5x1 to fit across entire top of screen) this is really bothering me, if anyone else is OCD about the layout of their home screens, then you know how I feel. Does anyone know of a solution for this? A way to resize any widget I want?
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Go custom ROM or go Apex Pro, Touchwiz Theme, Resize & Overlap Widgets in pro.... It's pretty damn close to being the same thing.
You can run the original Samsung keyboard in 240 as well without reinstalling the keyboard... change the resolution to 241
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This is why. And my battery life is actually running great. Lol I asked for help with my widgets not my kernel sir.
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so your e penis is inflated over benchmarks?? my device scores 2100+ clocked at 1900 also, but i see very little performance gain from stock. fwiw i agreed with nunyazz post that stated "negative", which in turn should of answered your initial question. i then followed up with a general statement of advice to help your noobness.
Hi @ThemerSupport
The new app drawer is much nicer and I see that you have now made the home screen widgets stay in place when entering the app drawer instead of them all moving to the Center.
One Chang I would like to see and that the ability to Chang the color of the tabs bar in the app drawer.
Thanks
All the best
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I can't use Themer yet because I use custom DPI on my SGS3, When I use stock DPI everything is normal, but when I change it everything is a mess, and yes I know that I can work my way around, making the widgets and texts bigger and moving them around, but it would be wonderful if there was a scaling future depending on the resolution and the DPI.
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Hi @ThemerSupport
The new app drawer is much nicer and I see that you have now made the home screen widgets stay in place when entering the app drawer instead of them all moving to the Center.
One Chang I would like to see and that the ability to Chang the color of the tabs bar in the app drawer.
Thanks
All the best
Moley
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Good suggestion! Now that we have a new app drawer, continuous improvements will be made on the drawer
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I can't use Themer yet because I use custom DPI on my SGS3, When I use stock DPI everything is normal, but when I change it everything is a mess, and yes I know that I can work my way around, making the widgets and texts bigger and moving them around, but it would be wonderful if there was a scaling future depending on the resolution and the DPI.
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The problem lies in when Themer is installed on your phone, it looks at the device name and sets the theme sizes accordingly. Now when custom DPI settings are added, it gets confused. That doesn't it custom DPI support won't be implemented, it'll just take some time
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The problem lies in when Themer is installed on your phone, it looks at the device name and sets the theme sizes accordingly. Now when custom DPI settings are added, it gets confused. That doesn't it custom DPI support won't be implemented, it'll just take some time
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Thanks for the response!
Wouldn't be better if instead of the device name, the app was looking for the DPI? That way it wouldn't matter what the device is, the would work anyway.
Hi guys, recently this has been bugging me a lot. No matter which launcher I use (Nova, Action, Trebuchet, Themer), or ROM (Scrubber, Resurrection, crDroid) I use, many apps look kind of fuzzy in app drawer, but they look crispy on home screen. Any idea why?? It makes the great screen on XZU look pixelated, kind of..
Thanks in advance!
That depends on:
- Icon resolution
- Icon size set in options
- DPI
If the icons are low-res and you increase their size from the settings, the only thing you're doing is stretching the icons, making them blurry if they're stretched beyond their resolution.
DPI can also mess things up, but it's normally low-res icons that are to blame. I also believe that Nova has some issues with blurry icons on some ROMs/devices. I'm also experiencing a couple of blurry icons, while others are not. I installed Action Launcher 3 again yesterday, and the icons were somewhat sharper there. Icons are still the sharpest looking with the stock launcher though.
I don't have a solution for you. This is simply something that people, including me, experience, and I'm not sure how to solve it. What I can tell you is that it's not a ROM issue, so you can stop flashing ROMs to trynsolving the issue.
Edit: Make a backup of your homescreen setup, uninstall and install Nova again. That should fix it. If you change the DPI again, uninstall and reinstall.
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That depends on:
- Icon resolution
- Icon size set in options
- DPI
If the icons are low-res and you increase their size from the settings, the only thing you're doing is stretching the icons, making them blurry if they're stretched beyond their resolution.
DPI can also mess things up, but it's normally low-res icons that are to blame. I also believe that Nova has some issues with blurry icons on some ROMs/devices. I'm also experiencing a couple of blurry icons, while others are not. I installed Action Launcher 3 again yesterday, and the icons were somewhat sharper there. Icons are still the sharpest looking with the stock launcher though.
I don't have a solution for you. This is simply something that people, including me, experience, and I'm not sure how to solve it. What I can tell you is that it's not a ROM issue, so you can stop flashing ROMs to trynsolving the issue.
Edit: Make a backup of your homescreen setup, uninstall and install Nova again. That should fix it. If you change the DPI again, uninstall and reinstall.
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Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately that method did not work. Icons in dock look fuzzy and app drawer ones too. I even tried not restoring my layout backup but still it was blurry when I increased the icon size to "normal". Without increasing icons look tiny. I have my dpi at 340. I tried 360 and 380 too and they were all fuzzy. When I increase my icons in nova I set it to 130-140 depending on the dpi.
Maybe it's just a bug in Nova??? But in Action launcher icons were overly big and they were even more blurry. On the other hand on Google now launcher, even when icons were huge, they were crisp. Ahh..
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Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately that method did not work. Icons in dock look fuzzy and app drawer ones too. I even tried not restoring my layout backup but still it was blurry when I increased the icon size to "normal". Without increasing icons look tiny. I have my dpi at 340. I tried 360 and 380 too and they were all fuzzy. When I increase my icons in nova I set it to 130-140 depending on the dpi.
Maybe it's just a bug in Nova??? But in Action launcher icons were overly big and they were even more blurry. On the other hand on Google now launcher, even when icons were huge, they were crisp. Ahh..
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Yup, it is a Nova issue, and there are a few "fixes" out there that doesn't seem to work for everyone. This has been an issue for a long time though, so I'm not sure if it'll ever get fixed. I'm currently using a very high DPI of 480, since it's easy to use the device one handed then, and the icons look... well, some look very sharp, while some others don't. In fact, I see now that the ClickUI icons are the ones that are fuzzy, while the icons from Moonshine and the stock icons are sharp, so it could, in my case, just be some icon pack issue.
Moonshine is XXX-HDPI or 192x192, but I can't find ClickUI's resolution, but I think that maybe it's 144x144, so naturally it won't scale as well as higher res icons when I make them bigger, and it ends up making them fuzzy.
Download some 192x192 icon packs (just search for "192x192 icons" or something on the Play Store), apply them and see if they're fuzzy. If they're not, problem solved. If they are, then I have no idea anymore :silly:
EDIT: Just installed Elun, which is 192x192, and they're all sharp.
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Yup, it is a Nova issue, and there are a few "fixes" out there that doesn't seem to work for everyone. This has been an issue for a long time though, so I'm not sure if it'll ever get fixed. I'm currently using a very high DPI of 480, since it's easy to use the device one handed then, and the icons look... well, some look very sharp, while some others don't. In fact, I see now that the ClickUI icons are the ones that are fuzzy, while the icons from Moonshine and the stock icons are sharp, so it could, in my case, just be some icon pack issue.
Moonshine is XXX-HDPI or 192x192, but I can't find ClickUI's resolution, but I think that maybe it's 144x144, so naturally it won't scale as well as higher res icons when I make them bigger, and it ends up making them fuzzy.
Download some 192x192 icon packs (just search for "192x192 icons" or something on the Play Store), apply them and see if they're fuzzy. If they're not, problem solved. If they are, then I have no idea anymore :silly:
EDIT: Just installed Elun, which is 192x192, and they're all sharp.
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Thanks. Actually, I just tried dpi of 480, and it seems to make icons sharper. Especially in Themer, icons look so much better, where with lower dpi, icons looked pixelated and ugly. Thanks a lot. You've been helpful.