Snags

Just for a quick update. I wanted to let you all know that I have received permission from Bisigi Projets, François Vogelweith to include his themes in the MIE Live CD, and I have also received permission from Camille Le Roux to use her background in a new theme. I thought I was all set to go with the live CD, and I ran into something i never thought would be an issue, Album art will not load. I thought it might have something to do with Elisa so I upgraded to Moovida, but nothing. I then tried updating the deb files, but that had no effect either. I then tried following the install instructions on my Ubuntu 9.10 desktop, and everything worked just fine. So the only thing that I can think of is that there is some package included in the ubuntu-desktop that Harbour-Launcher depends on. In case anyone has input on this, the error I'm getting says
"Elisa: No Album cover found". I don't think it's a really big deal, but i wanted to try and make this Live CD as close to the real thing as possible. I also have finished theming "Wild Shine", "Showtime", and "Balanza". I haven't taken screen shots because I want to load them all at once. Hopefully I can keep up the pace and have it out before "Giftsmas". And since "Giftsmas" is on different days for different people, I mean the Christian "Giftsmas" for no other reason than it's the last one of the year. That's it for now hopefully i hear back from someone.

Now What?

The creation of a Live CD with MIE interface was not enough for me. I don't like the way that openbox and gnome seem to clash with one another. So I decided to do something about it. Currently remastersys has problems with Ubuntu 9.10, so I had to use the Ubuntu 9.04 mini cd. This thing is sweet, I wish I had found it before. I was able to install a basic command line system, and add whatever bits and pieces I wanted. So the result was a Live CD with bare minimum packages to get an Internet connection, Harbour Launcher, and Elisa working. The iso comes in at 440MB as opposed to the 600 MB it was before. I also wanted to mention that I have contacted Francois from Bisigi Project to ask his permission to pre-install his themes on the disk. As soon as i hear back from him, I will start adding the files necessary to make his themes MIE ready. I will also be featuring another theme for the pink HP Mini. I was up late last night and saw one on QVC that was being sold as Windows 7 although it had the MIE interface clearly on it. Oh well. But it was still the original black, which don't get me wrong, it's nice, just not so much against pink. I have contacted Camille Le Roux at www.ftw-design.com/en/wallpapers.html to ask her permission on using her "Pink Garden" wallpaper, I think it's really great. I do still have some issues to work out, Harbour Launcher still will not autostart, and the default Gnome panels are kind of in the way. Two not really huge issues, but I just want to find out how to do it. So please look for MIE Live Alpha coming really soon.