Inkscape and EeePc

[artfreak]

just curious if anyone around here might have a EeePc and using it togehter with:

-inkscape
-gimp
-scribus
-mtpaint

etc.

anyone around?
just wanted to know if this machine is capable for this type of stuff
(well at least for smaller less complex artworks? and some basic photo editing?)

[Simarilius]

I think it may have issues with the screen being too small for the toolbars currently.
our toolbars arent resizable and so you'd have to play games with the themes and icons to get them to fit on screen as I understand it.
A mate of mine does have one of these, so I may have a play if he'll let me loose on it. Believe bryce has one as well.

[aho]

>just wanted to know if this machine is capable for this type of stuff

CPU and RAM wise it's alright. Eg doing icons or diagrams (SVGs with low node counts in general) is certainly possible. The same goes for simple image manipulation/creation (eg web or interface graphics). I did that kind of thing with a 500mhz machine with 256mb RAM for quite a while and the only noticeable issue was the startup time of programs.

If you attach a monitor at the dsub/vga port you can pretty much do all typical web dev things. Running Apache on the same machine with Typo3 won't be much fun, tho. It does work, but it's really painful.

Without a separate screen it's somewhat cramped. Eclipse for example can be used in 800x480 (screenie). And Inkscape should also usable if you use a 3 button mouse (with wheel), disable some things such as scrollbars (you can pan with MMB), and if you learn the tool shortcuts.

The tool shortcuts are actually quite easy to remember. Those which are shown in the tooltips are the internationalized hard to remember shortcuts. The alternative shortcuts are easier:

Select (you can also use space to toggle over to the select tool... hit it again to switch back to the previously used tool)
Node (node modifiers: Shift+Corner/Smooth/sYmmetric)
tWeak
Zoom (you don't need this one... it's faster to zoom with the mouse wheel)
Rectangle
3d boxes
Ellipse
* (star)
spIral
Pen
Bezier
Calligrapy
paint bUcket
Text
cOnnect
Gradient
Dropper