rafaelcapanema said: Great, hm1992, thank you!
I'm running it on an actual HP Mini XP Edition with dual boot (XP/Ubuntu).
The whole process, step by step
- Download harbour-launcher_0.78.3_lpia.deb and save it to your home folder
- Open a terminal window and type:
- Type Alt+F2 and launch it:
If you don't see it right away, press the show desktop icon (the keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+Alt+D) or do some Alt+Tabbing. If you want it to launch everytime you log in, go to System > Preferences > Sessions and add harbour-lancher.
- To get the Favorite Websites thing working, install the webfav_1.0ubuntu5_all.deb package.
- The music/photos widgets are powered by Elisa, a media center software. You can install it by typing this on a terminal:
Or go to Synaptic-Add/Remove and search for "elisa". It will ask you to restart your computer. (!)
- The MIE has no top panel, just a bottom one. You can mimic Ubuntu Netbook remix's set-up (assuming you have installed UNR's packages): (source)
Additional tweak
http://hpmini.archive.canonical.com/mie/dists/hardy-hpmini/restricted/binary-lpia/hp-tbird-theme_0.5_all.deb
- Install the Thunderbird theme:
To-do
Does anyone know how to assign the Windows/Super key to launch harbour-launcher?
- When you first launch harbour-launcher, it tells you can always come back to it by pressing the HP key - which is, actually, a rebranded Windows/Super key.
Does anyone else recommend extra tweaks?
Awesome little tutorial there, many thanks.
I'm really liking the design - reminds me somewhat of what jolicloud looks like - albeit less functional than the JC will be.
It's annoying you can't resize the sidebars or, as someone else suggested, replace mail with a RSS reader or something else.
I've installed it on my netbook (eee pc 701) and the launcher does't entirely fit the screen, which is a bit 'meh', i guess... but most people didn't get a netbook shipped to the UK from USA the day they came out... so good for you for waiting!)
The 'app' launcher icons are massive, but very finger friendly - should be great for when i get my eee swivel screen model in a few months.
UK users won't get to buy the HP netbook this comes with as HP have decided to only release Windows based netbooks here.
interestingly, the linux version comes with 2GB RAM, xp comes with 512mb. just sayin'!
My fingers hurt from typing on this eee, but if anyone is interested in tweaking the launcher to fit a 701 screen i'm more than happy to help. (depending on the license of the launcher, obv. i'm not aware it's opensource.)