thanks qole can't wait to install it today

Great work! I really wanted to get Mer going in my tablet, but it is still too rough on the edges to use it every day. Your Easy Mer is perfect for me, right now! Thanks!

It is like Easy Debian and the LXDE as a replacement desktop projects combined. You can use applications from Easy Mer (like Midori or OpenOffice or other Ubuntu apps) in Maemo, or you can fire up the Mer desktop and replace the Maemo desktop entirely. I'm not going to do the Mer-on-Maemo thing, there's too much conflict between the Hildon desktops and it isn't a huge deal to switch between them.

Great job adding all this extra versatility for those of us not savvy enough to go hacking around properly.

One question though, I'm currently using Ooo3 through Easy-Debian, is it any faster through Easy-Mer? I plan to convert to Mer when it gets to version 1 but until then are there any benefits to it over Easy-Debian?

Thanks,

Rich

Ok, sorry for the dumb question, but with all the marvelous possibilities I read about here I got confused
Thanks again

Qole you're my hero !!!

I will try it asap !
(hoping Ooo isn't as slow as on the last easy debian version) ...

totololo: No, Ooo3 seems to be the same speed in all my versions. Slow to start, fine once running.

I don't have Ooo3 installed in this image, by the way. If you want to try out the Mer/Ubuntu version of Ooo3, you can try the images I posted in the first post.

Just about got the .deb ready.

I will try it asap !

OK, folks, the easy-mer deb is available for install from my repository.

Catalogue Name: Qole
Web address: http://qole.org/repository
Distribution: maemo
Components: main

This deb will install the necessary scripts to download the image, switch to the Mer desktop, and run the battery, wifi, and maemo-menu taskbar applets.

Your /home/user/.chroot file will get pushed aside to .chroot.old.mer and the new Easy Mer file will replace it. Edit the .chroot file as necessary if you aren't using the image file (you're using a partition instead).

Please report bugs. I'm especially interested to know if I forgot python dependencies for the little status bar applets.

If you can, use the included installer to get the image file, so I know if that's working, too.

Fixed your repository, installed easy-mer.

Ran Easy Mer from extras (didn't notice the image installer at first). Loaded wifi, bat, and menu no problem. It did push my other status bar icons off the screen. I already have some python stuff installed, so no complaints here.

Noticed the image installer, running now. Logged out, quit Mer from status bar menu. It did leave the wifi and battery icons on the status bar, menu icon is gone.

Should it "remove" the wifi and battery status bar apps as well? Will it mess it up if I manually uncheck them?

To be continued......