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Testing Unity
Unity is an application developed by Canonical for netbooks. Today it’s just the application, but it looks as they will release it as it’s own version in addition to Ubuntu Netbook. As we’re all in the business of open source, we’ve been testing it for some time now as a potential idea for EasyPeasy.
Searching has been made easily available on the top left. This is a nice feature. I’m not sure about the taskbar on the left hand side though. Geeks, including myself, have been moving the taskbar to the left for years as it’s the logical place for it: you navigate web sites vertically so vertically is where you need space. No operating system has this as default though and there’s good reasons for it. One being that it’s not usual, meaning it’s not intuitive. The other one being that it’s ugly.
All in all it’s an exiting project which I’m looking forward to see grow. If you’ve tried it, what are your thoughts?
Release schedule for EasyPeasy 1.7
The release schedule for EasyPeasy 1.7 is now available on our wiki. We plan on swaping 1.6 out with 1.7 on November 4th this year. The first version will be available already in about 2 weeks.
Unity reminds me of tapping around on my Nokia N800 (when I had one.) Maemo (the OS on the Nokia Internet Tablets) has been putting the taskbar on the left for years, for the same reason you mentioned here: with small screens (and a “widescreen” format being today’s standard), it makes sense to not put the taskbar where it causes more scrolling.
Great news, looking forward to follow news and the state of netbook operating systems. Will 1.7 be based on Unity?
We’re will certainly consider it, with it’s plans about being lightweight and boot in 9 seconds. But Unity is far from done, so it’s too early to decide if it’s the right move for EasyPeasy.
Nope don’t like it. I do like the interface that was added with the new version over the old interface, but this thing is ugly.
I also don’t like it. Screen real estate on netbooks is pretty slim as it is. To lose a large chunk of it to the sidebar is a real waste of space, especially since there is still the top panel.
The current edition UNE interface works really well for me…
do you know the android-ui?
3 screens able to scroll,a drawer button where the main menu apears (fullscreen),and widgets…clock,powersave bar,music-control-widget,cpu temp info and so on…
and what about lil buttons in the statusbar..3g on/off,wlan on/off,bluetooth on/of ,brightnesslevel, ?
hmmm think it would be cool…an androidlikeeasypeasy, maybe special editon?
and i think that it may be cool on a tab or pad ;)
thanks a lot for your work
sorry for bad english
hope you understand me
I would like to know if easy peasy can be installed on netbooks other than Asus’s EEE range. and seeing as 1.7 is not available, what is next for easy peasy?
A reply would be appreciated
All the Best and Respectfully yours
SE ( Solstice-Eireann)
Great work. Thanks! I love Easy Peasy!
Greetings from munich,
Peter
Hi,
Yesterday I installed Easy Peasy.
I’m very happy … :-)
It seems to me beautiful, and above all fast.
There are still some applications that I can not change the dimesnione windows, tonight we’ll work on it …
Forgive me for my not perfect English …
Gianluca
Hi EasyPeasies,
i tried the 1.6 Release on my Samsung N220 and it works really fast.
A few problems I solved via some brilliant forums and the big community.
Looking forward to the final 2.0 Release…..
Uwe