Secrets of the Eee

by Richard Bradshaw

Icons exist for the following programs that are no included on the Eee – perhaps these were planned for inclusion at one point.

Find these at /opt/xandros/AsusLauncher. Use ls | grep iptv in that folder to find the filename for iptv for instance.

  • iptv
  • kturtle
  • kvisio
  • openarena
  • planner
  • skool
  • splashtop
  • supermario
  • xterm
  • music store
  • googleearth
  • webstorage

Xterm is available by pressing ctrl – alt – T, but the others are not installed. We have seen evidence of Splashtop at CEE – perhaps the others will be used as well at some point…

Weirdly the xterm icon shows a prompt at C:\_ – not very linux like!

Taking a deeper look at the file located at /opt/xandros/share/AsusLauncher/simpleui.rc we can see that the programs that provide iptv and the music store are Miro and a unusual application called ezpeer respectively.

There isn’t an easy way to tell what the web storage icon would be for, but an educated guess would be a gui to configure mount.gmailfs, a program that comes preinstalled on the eee that allows you to mount a gmail account as a file system. This isn’t officially allowed by gmail, so perhaps this is why it was not included in the final version.

Openarena is a open source program based on the source released for Quake 3 – again, this would be pretty cool!

More digging around shows that the themes are named accessibility (blue), business (silver), student (green), home (orange), perhaps these were originally meant to be more than just colour changes.

If you want, you can change the wallpaper by modifying the files with wallpaper in their filenames in the same folder. It should be possible to make a new theme, rather than replacing an old one – we will have to see!

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