EyeControl
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To open eyeControl, click on System preferences on the eyeBar menu.
Changing your Desktop preferences
When you open eyeControl as a normal user you will see three groups: Personal, Look & Feel and System (see Illustration 20).
You will also see how many used space you have on your account in the bottom right part of eyeControl.
Illustration 20: System preferences for a normal user
From the Personal menu you can change your user information, password and language that you are using on this system. To do any of this actions, first click on the preferences panel you want to go it, change/add the required fields and click on the submit button to save the changes.
From the Look & Feel menu, you can change your Desktop's wallpaper (or restore the eyeOS default one if you changed it before), and change your Theme between the available themes for the current eyeOS System.
Finally, from the System menu you can update the applications that will autorun when you log in as your user (so you can add a new application, for example, to open eyeFiles each time you log in), or delete current ones. It's not recommended at all to remove the Desktop applications, since you may leave your account unusable without an administrator's fix.
You can also change the Places of your eyeFiles with the File Manager menu, and to change your eyeNav's default start page from the Web Browser menu.
Changing the System's behavior
Note that you must be logged as root user in order to be able to see and update the system administration panels. To change your System's options and behavior, just open eyeControl as root user and you will see a new menu called Administration (see Illustration 21).
Illustration 21: eyeControl as root user
General Administration
The General menu inside the Administration panel allows you to update some system's option such as the System's host name (that appears as the browser's title after the username), and some options such as allowing new users to register in your system, allowing public directories to be created, the system's default language and the Login's box theme that is being used.
To update some of the options, just change their values to the new ones and click on the “Save changes” button.
Note that you can also completely uninstall your eyeOS from that panel, by typing your root's password and clicking on “Uninstall eyeOS” button. This is useful when you want to completely remove your eyeOS installation and you can't do it due to the permissions assigned to eyeOS files during the Installation.
Note that uninstalling your eyeOS can't be undone. Please do it only when you and all the users inside your system have backed up all the important data.
Managing Users
The Manage Users menu allows you to create new users, by clicking on the “New” button and filling the form.
You can also edit a current users (for example, for assigning them permission to access a new group you have just created or change their password), by selecting the user you want to modify and clicking on the “Edit” button.
Finally, you can remove an user and all it's data by selecting the user and clicking on “Remove” button.
Note that you can't remove the root user and this action can't be undone.
Managing Groups
The Manage Groups menu allows you to create new groups to work collaboratively between users. This is one of the most important options inside eyeOS because it allows you to create shared folders between users, so they can work between them.
To create a new group, just create on the “New” button and type the group's name. Once it's created, it won't be assigned automatically to any user. You can go then to the Manage users menu, and edit some users to assign them to the new group.
The next time that those users will log in into their account and go to eyeGroups folder inside the Places category in eyeDock, they will see their new group and will be able to copy and manage files inside it.
Managing Repositories
Repositories are something very important in eyeOS, since they allow you to install applications from the eyeSoft application automatically, without need to download or upload anything into your system.
If you have an eyeOS repository URL and would like to add it to your repositories list so you can install software from there, just click on the “New” button and type the new repository URL.
The next time you update eyeSoft, you will see the applications from that repository too.
Installing new software
To install new software into your eyeOS, you can do it from the eyeSoft repository- based application, or by uploading an eyeOS Prepared Package (usually named eyepackages) to your home folder, being root user, and clicking on it.
To install new software trough eyeSoft, just open it by clicking on the “Launch eyeSoft” button in the Repositories menu. eyeSoft will be then opened.
The first thing you should do every time you open eyeSoft is to click on the "Update”button so it can refresh its sources and show you the latest vailable packages and applications to install. (see Illustration 22).
Illustration 22: Updating eyeSoft
To install an application, just click on it on the Applications list and click on “Install” button. The Install process will start by showing you some informations about the application, and asking you to accept it's license by clicking on “Accept” button.
Then the application will be downloaded and installed into your system. Wait for the Application installed successfully message and then close the window.
You can now launch your new Application from the Applications folder. Note that every application you install will be available for all users inside your system.
To remove an application, just select it (note that the Installed message appears next to the application on the list) and click on “Uninstall” button. The application will be now uninstalled from your system.
Finally, to search over the application list, just type the word you want to search and press the “Search” button. The list will be updated with the results of your search. To clean the search and show all the applications again, just remove the search words and press the “Search” button again.
Developers
- Lars Knickrehm (Germany) - lars-sh
Documents and Links
News
Ready! - 18.09.2007 | Lars Knickrehm
The code for eyeControl 1.2 is ready now! I'll fix some bugs and add new buttons from our developer, soon. But the code should be ready for release now.
Bugs fixed and array lib added. - 16.09.2007 | Lars Knickrehm
I finished the base eyeDock content for editing, deleting and creating new links. I added many function since last post and fixed many issues and bugs. Now I hope, that I'll finish the eyeDock categories content soon and after it I'll take a look at some system functions for fixing them.
Many extras contents added! - 06.09.2007 | Lars Knickrehm
Now all extra contents for eyeNav, eyeDesk, ... are added. Only the eyeDock content isn't ready, yet. Take a look at the eyeControl roadmap to see what's comming. Stay tuned eyeControl will be included into eyeOS 1.2!
eyeAdmins new version is ready! - 23.08.2007 | Lars Knickrehm
I'm really happy to announce the finished eyeControl preview within all functions from eyeAdmins latest version. From now to the complete release all changes and added contents are "extras"!
eyeControls basic finished! - 12.08.2007 | Lars Knickrehm
Today I finished the basic eyeControl "kernel", for loading contents and the menu bar. There will be much changes in the next month!
