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Any engadget or arstechnica frequenters probably saw this a few days ago, but for those of us who don't HP's Mobile Internet Edition interface's source is available & has been shown to successfully run on other netbooks. Since the source is available it shouldn't be that hard to get it up & running on the panda, just needs a few packages to be compiled for ARM. Would just provide a nicely polished UI choice for relatively little work. May not suit everyone's fancy, but worth a shot imo. Here are some screenshots & links to the original articles, ubuntu forum discussion & source trunk.

hp-interface-1.jpg

hp-interface-3.jpg


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http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/13/hps-exclusive-mobile-internet-ubuntu-skin-not-so-exclusive-anym/
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/02/make-your-ubuntu-distro-look-like-the-mini-mi.ars
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1021351
http://hpmini.archive.canonical.com/mie/dists/hardy-hpmini/
 
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Since people have already ripped the interface and other parts, we can take that stuff and recompile for ARM. That'll probably work without much extra effort.
 
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Pandora is much smaller and than a netbook and quite different from it so we have very different UI needs. We need bigger fonts, touchscreen optimization and navigation optimized for gaming controls, not a mouse.
 
'OrR' said:
Pandora is much smaller and than a netbook and quite different from it so we have very different UI needs. We need bigger fonts, touchscreen optimization and navigation optimized for gaming controls, not a mouse.
Fonts I'm sure are all configurable (or at least hackable -- it is linux afterall), The large icons seem well-suited for a touchscreen interface & I'm sure that there will be packages supporting game control navigation on an OS level soon after release (& even if there aren't, it's a pretty simple affair). IMO this interface seems much more well suited for a touchscreen than a mouse in the first place.

I'm actually getting sick of twiddling my thumbs & hoping other people get around to porting stuff. I've been an avid linux user for years now & I'm sure I can find out how to compile & test things for other architectures, so I think I'll do just that. I figure if I can contribute to the scene in any way I should =]

Off to read up & give it a shot =D
 
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