I’ve been having quite some fun with the Raon Digital Everun Note S16S over the last 24hrs. One of the forum users, Tenyo, got a patch together to fix the Wifi under a standard Ubuntu 8.10 build and finally the device has sprung into life as a usable UMPC option.
After getting the WiFi working, I spent a few hours tweaking Gnome to have bigger fonts, larger scrollbars, a better toolbar, sub-pixel smoothing and installed a few packages. In my quest for some widgets, I stumbled across Screenlets. You’ve probably seen and heard of widgets before as they appear on many other platforms and through the website screenlets.org, you can get access to hundreds of them. You can even convert Google and SpringWidgets which makes it very flexible. They look good, perform well and there are two features that make them extra useful on touchscreens. 1) You can lock them to the screen which prevents them moving around like screen shortcuts. 2) They have a scaling feature. Here’s a screen set-up I have on the 1024×600 Everun Note at the moment.
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