Linpus Lite released

[ChiJoan]

Happy Holidays Everyone,

I just saw this up on Distrowatch and thought someone lucky to have gotten one of these to test on might like a look to let us know about it.

http://www.linpus.com/xampp/webmaster/P ... .4Lite.htm

Thanks for Puppy Linux, all it's sizes and shapes are a joy to play and work with.

Happy New Year,
Joan in Reno, NV

[willhunt]

sounded very interesting right up to the part where it says

You will need to purchase an upgrade from Linpus to play the following media formats:
ASF, DVD, MP3, MPEG II, WMA, WMV

[nutts4life]

So i was really impressed with the look of the OS, so i gave it a download. Linpus are a commercial company. Hence why they try and charge. Not really in the concept of linux, but it's Fedora and they love that kind of stuff.

Anyway, i downloaded it, ran it and had a good look around. It's a pretty standard setup in the 'technical mode' with a XFCE taskbar and dock etc.

BUT it's the other UI that's the most impressive. You click an icon on the desktop and it switches to a 'easy mode' . It basically looks like a exe that runs over the top of the XFCE desktop. The UI is very similar to the Asus eepc Xandros UI, with six-eight big icons and then a set of big menu icons at the top.

I've attached a image below as it speaks a thousand words!

I think something similar would look great in puppy.....

- So where would you start?
- How would you create this?
- Any ideas would be great...

n4l

[richard.a]

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BUT it's the other UI that's the most impressive. You click an icon on the desktop and it switches to a 'easy mode' . It basically looks like a exe that runs over the top of the XFCE desktop. The UI is very similar to the Asus eepc Xandros UI, with six-eight big icons and then a set of big menu icons at the top.

I've attached a image below as it speaks a thousand words!

I think something similar would look great in puppy.....

- So where would you start?
- How would you create this?
- Any ideas would be great...

n4l

Yes I though exactly the same as you did.

Did you go any further with it?

When I was an "insider" for Lindows/Linspire they created one (with fewer buttons) as an overlay you could install from their repository. Unfortunately it was difficult to access and save their stuff, the system was designed to use their "Click-n-Run" warehouse. It would have been "free-as-in-beer" opensource code, so you might be able to do a xearch and find it.

[Lobster]

Yes I though exactly the same as you did.
Did you go any further with it?

You forgot the image . . .
Fluppy has this sort of thing
as one of its interfaces
You can see it here being used with a side selection

http://youtu.be/j4S7MKuNqc4

[Bert]

I quite like what Puppymartin created for Browserlinux:



It's included in Browserlinux 400b5 or higher,
or can be downloaded as a pet here