WebOS 10.2.2 homescreen customization – took it a bit further
Saw a post from u/Markulatura with the webos10-homescreen-customization repo a while back. Been playing around with it on my G3 and got it to a point I'm happy with so thought I'd share.
The main thing I added on top is a full-screen wallpaper. Ran into a few things along the way though.
The sidebar on the left (search, settings, account icons) was pushing the wallpaper to the right. Turns out you can't just remove it because the whole screen goes black. Ended up keeping it in the layout but overflowing it off-screen. Doesn't matter since I never use it anyway.
The wallpaper also can't extend into the app icon area at the bottom so there's a hard cutoff. I just baked a fade-to-black into the image itself which makes it look more natural.
One thing I couldn't get working is horizontally centering the app icons. Tried everything in the XML and nothing has any effect. If anyone has figured this out I'd love to know.
Also removed the "Start a new experience with webOS." text and the Go to Apps button by overriding the i18n files with empty strings.
Only have a local repo at the moment but can put it up if anyone wants it, just know it's very much tailored to my setup.