I'm in a Dark Place now and it's Good.... I've installed "#! Crunch Bang Linux" on the 901 EEE PC.
It's dark, everything is gray, grey or black. But like the ratpoison window manager, you don't have to bugger around with rat pads. Just little "House key"+alphabet key combos from a nifty little menu on the right of the screen. No colourful fat icons, just very serious, grey gray no brown. No emacs, but "sudo apt-get install emacs-snapshot" soon changed that. Just noticed something really really really CUTE about the EEE PC mousepad... It's multi-touch, (something I've been drooling about ever since I first saw that famous multitouch video). But it's not the two finger draw box that is so beautiful. It's the two finger scroll that just so _natural_. Use one finger, and the cursor moves. Use two fingers, and the page scrolls. Wow! I didn't even have to read about it in the docs, it just started happening and before I was consciously aware of what was happening, my fingers were using it! Talk about exceptionally good UI design! I'm really starting to like this likkle gadget. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [email protected] New Zealand
