weelaner | # 1 | 2009-12-16, 12:34 | Report

Hello,

I am very impressed of maemo 5. I want to have it in the opposite way to all the "ubuntu on the nit" threads. I hope this is the right place for me, too.

I have a touch-enabled Asus T91 netbook and I have a running UNR 9.10 on it. All things working for me (display, bluetooth, wlan, ...). I am now interested in using maemo-desktop as a replacement for the gnome-based netbook launcher.
There are no easy installable packages out there for getting this done (or i didn´t find them). And I found no guide for installing (compiling) it. Only running maemo in an xephyr nested xserver, but this is not what I want.

Is it (or will it be) possible to install and use maemo-desktop on ubuntu on a netbook with touchscreen as primary desktop?
Can be MER the solution I search for?

Thanks,
weelaner

Termana | # 2 | 2009-12-17, 10:57 | Report

One of the easy answers is Mer. Though the release that has the Maemo 5 interface is still going through testing. If you want the old Mer look though, you can use 0.16 by downloading it here - http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/mer/0...e-v0.16.tar.gz and using these http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer/Documentat...6_Mer_Bootable instructions. I don't think the Mer kernel would have a driver for your touchscreen though, but I could be wrong. You can of course try the 0.17 release as well (which has the new interface) - http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/mer/0...esting3.tar.gz