e-Natives Showcase Finger Friendly Task Manager
The HTC task manager that we’ve all been using (top right corner of the today screen) is generally decent and usable but how about making it a lot more finger friendly? Well thanks to amarullz of XDA and e-Natives Technology you can have this. It lets you switch tasks, terminate processes, return to your today screen or return to your last running app. For now you will need to launch this manually or map it to a button but it looks like they’re working on mapping this to the top right corner of the home screen like the other task managers. Also, if you want to change the skin just go into (storage card)\program files\e-natives technology\showcase and change the .png files (so for VGA/Fuze you would replace both the 480 and 640 png files).
XDA users seem to be loving it and it should support all screen resolutions. I’m having a little trouble with it but it’s me, not the app since I now have 3 task managers installed (HTC’s, Acer’s and this one on top of WM’s native one) so I think I’ve been hitting the task managers too hard lately and now none of them are happy:)
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Lee I’ve been using Task Facade (http://sites.google.com/site/taskfacade/) for a while now. It does let you filter out processes like ActiveSync. Map it to the PTT button and task switching becomes infinitely easier.
Nice task manager, but as a few have noted in the XDA thread it does take a few seconds to open (that may be the price to pay for a big finger friendly interface). I think I will wait until you can filter out apps (coming in a future release) like ActiveSync.
I am using the task manager that’s included with AE Button Plus and while not perfect, when set to large format you can control it well with your fingers. Opens in about half the time.