On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 11:04:57PM -0700, Brandon Philips wrote:
On 09:43 Mon 18 Aug 2008, Alexander Muravya wrote:
1) We need to create "easy mode" (as it
was realized in default
Xandros)
What do you mean by this?
The original Xandros for EeePC has a highly customised IceWM (if I
recall correctly) to provide a simple, tabbed interface with big
colourful icons for Mail, Web, Audioplayer, Skype etc. This is called
easy mode, and the EeePC looks like yet another PDA-ish device, you
don't really notice it's running linux.
To get KDE on the EeePC, which is what most people reading lists like
this one want, you have to install the so-called "Advanced Mode" manually.
The sources for the custom IceWM GUI, which I believe was just
configuration, not actual changes to IceWM itself, used to be available
for download from the Asus website. I'm only getting 404's now, though.
I don't think that a huge project overhead with planning and design is
necessary to provide a similar (but green ;-)) interface, packaged and
built in the build service, just someone who finds out how to configure
a light-weight window manager, documents it in the wiki, and provides a
few sample files which people can either use as they are, or build upon.
The scope of this would be probably small enough for one person, so, to
the original poster: what are you waiting for? ;-)
cheers,
Sonja
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Sonja Krause-Harder (skh(a)suse.de) SUSE Research & Development
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