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Comments on: How to customise the Acer Aspire One GUI

"Invisible" panels 

By Mike Moyle Posted Thursday 4th December 2008 22:26 GMT

Boffin

Must there always be four icon panels and are they fixed in place by the OS?

If the answer to both is "yes". then could one take "slices" of the background graphic in an image-editing program, save the parts that would normally be hidden by the panels and use them as the panel graphics?

Inelegant, I know, but it would at least give the impression of the icons floating over the BG. (Hey... I'm not a coder; I'm just the Graphics Geek!)

@Mike 

By Tony Smith, Editor, Reg Hardware Posted Friday 5th December 2008 08:34 GMT

(Written by Reg staff.)

Good idea - and I tried it, without success. Acer's code appears to put in a solid black titlebar and a solid grey icon panel if it's asked to place a graphic it doesn't 'know' about.

what, just like window$? 

By last chance Posted Friday 5th December 2008 08:50 GMT

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hrmph....

1 Solution Install Ubuntee Eee From Pen Drive 

By Dylan Brandes Posted Friday 5th December 2008 15:21 GMT

Coat

Dont bother with this config rubbish...

Ubuntu Eee will work with Acer Aspire One. Thats what I did, it installed all drivers automatically and runs like a dream. All the info you need is here:

http://www.ubuntu-eee.com/

And can be installed from pen drive easily. Once installed you can also add any software package easily at the click of a button, VLC, Skype, Azureus etc...

Good Luck.

How To? 

By GrahamT Posted Friday 5th December 2008 16:37 GMT

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I would like to know:

1. How to replace Firefox 2 with Firefox 3 easily without having to partially deinstall 2, install 3, partially reinstall 2.

2. How to get Thunderbird to show the number of unread emails under the icon as the crappy inbuilt email reader does. Replacing the email client with Thunderbird was a model of simplicity, but the email icon always shows 0 unread.

Great series of articles though. I learn something new with each one.