‘Ease’ Presentation App Makes Impress Look Less Than Impressive

By , Published November 6, 2010

‘Ease Presentation editor‘ for the Gnome desktop aims to make presentation creation easy whilst providing all the standard features you’ll likely need to create slick, visually impressive presentations.

Better yet it has a very neat, animated cluttter-based interface that makes OpenOffice.Org Impress look so Windows 95 in comparison!

Features

The application really makes things simple for you. On first launch you’re presented with some template themes to choose from. You can also set the size of the presentation slides using the toolbar at the bottom.

Once in the main editor window you can double-click on headers and text fields to add text and use the menu to add images, videos, shapes and more text.

All items can be freely moved and manipulated into your chosen position, including item layer order. Videos can be set to automatically play, loop, stretch, etc.

A quick ‘off the top of my head’ feature list would look like so: -

  • Ships with custom themes
  • Add text, images, videos, shapes and animated transitions
  • Ability to set font type, size, colour, and alignment
  • Choose a solid colour, set a gradient or choose an image for slide background
  • All items can be ordered, manipulated, resized, etc
  • Slide Sorter view
  • Export presentation to PDF, HTML or Postscript

Slide Sorter

All slides can be freely moved around and reordered using the ‘Slide Sorter’ view.

Transitions

No Presentaion app would be complete without a basketful of neat transitory effects for use between slides. Ease has more than enough to appease even the most enthusiastic of effect-fans: from basic slides and wipes to bling-laden spins, pivots and ‘open door’ effects.

Ease currently supports many great features including: -

Ease Presentation app in Ubuntu

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The application is in early development so it has some rough edges. During my testing it only crashed once. I recommend hitting the save button frequently if you opt to create a presentation using it.

It’s also worth nothing that the application can only save to its own file format currently. This mean you won’t be able to play back your presentations in PowerPoint of OO.o Impress.

Ease can export presentations to PDF, HTML and Postscript.

Whilst development takes place via git there is a PPA for the curious to install from. Open a Terminal and enter: -

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:natesm/ease
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ease

Thanks to Bunny.

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  • http://graphic-class.blogspot.com/ Aditia A. Pratama

    I’ll test it out, thanks for share !

    • http://graphic-class.blogspot.com/ Aditia A. Pratama

      it’s too heavy on my lucid…hmpph

  • Anonymous

    I’m going to try this soon! Thank’s!

  • http://twitter.com/kindev Christian Kindarji

    ease does not work with global menu. When global menu is activated, it looses its menu from the window, however it does not add the menu to the panel

    • Anonymous

      The same happens when you try to use Bluefish with global menu.

      • Anonymous

        And VMware Workstaion/Player. :(

      • https://launchpad.net/~mike-htwins Fuchsiania

        And Thunderbird.

    • https://launchpad.net/~ethana2 ethana2

      Ease works with the global menu on my 10.10 install.

    • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/R25APX2NWD4262MDEYS2BWWEZU Mikolaj

      Which global menu? the one from Netbook edition? Or the other one?

    • Anonymous

      Here’s a workaround (assuming you’re using the GlobalMenu applet for the GNOME Panel – the non-UNE one):

      Open a .ease file so that when Ease does open, it does not open the Template Chooser first. The Template Chooser being opened first is what’s triggering the bug.

  • Anonymous

    Is it able to play/save MS Office formats?

  • Anonymous

    Simple.

    aaahhhhh…….yeahhhhh

    I likes it.

  • http://twitter.com/h0cage H0C age

    THIS IS WONDERFUL!!
    I had no idea an app like this existed for Linux.. this seriously made my week. No more PowerPoint in Wine for me!

    • http://twitter.com/fuljonas Jonas

      Why Powerpoint in Wine and not running Impress instead? I haven’t really used impress that much, but are there any big advantages using powerpoint?

    • Anonymous

      Totally agree! Now, if only there was a text editor like this, as well!! :)
      I hate messy, old OpenOffice… Too much clutter when I just want to write in a beautiful environment!! Saving straight to Google Docs would’ve been awesome as well!
      Ease could use a little more fresh icon, but I’m not complaining! :)

      • http://andrealazzarotto.com/ Lazza

        If you like simplicity, maybe you could try Abiword. :)

        • Anonymous

          Thanks, I will give that a try :)

    • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/27K3RKLZDU25XWU7DCEH4B4QBI Ernesto

      I’m with you on this one. The app shows a lot of promise. I would like it to become the powerpoint equivalent for gnome.

      Since it is just starting, there is still a lot of functionality missing, but the sky is the limit :)

  • Anonymous

    it’s cool but really unstable…..i can’t even save a project and open it….bah!

  • http://twitter.com/TomBous Thomas Bousquet

    This app is wonderfull ! A little bit unstable for the moment. Hope we will see a text editor easy and beautyfull like this app soon :)

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Watch this space ;)

  • http://twitter.com/zwaldowski Zachary Waldowski

    Looks wonderful; a lot like Keynote. Screw Open/Libre/WhateverOffice.

  • Alaukik

    I was just wondering when everyone from noobs to geeks prefer prefer sudo crap-get why did canonical waste its resources in devoleping software center and related gui tools(software sources)?

    • Anonymous

      Troll fail.

      EDIT: Oh Wait…

      • Anonymous

        Im not trolling lol its too early in the morning for me.

    • Anonymous

      Sudo apt-get install the game, is faster and easier to use than a gui. plus many programs listed in this blog are not in the software center until you add a ppa. You could go to the gui and add the ppa too, but its more complicated than just using the terminal.

      • Alaukik

        no its not complicated you just have to go to edit ->software sources and add the ppa on other software tab and it will ask to reload on exit then just install the app from the already open software center

        it is easier than elementary standard science

        • Anonymous

          What is your problem? I don’t get it – Th entire point of posting commandline commands here is so that you can copy, paste and enter, without needing to understand at all what it’s doing, and at the end of it your software will be installed, and ready for use. Compare this with the Go to Applications, slide down to Ubuntu Software Center and click it, then on the menu bar find Edit, click on it, slide down to Software Sources and click on it, then switch to the Other Software tab…. excuse us lazybones, but that’s a grand waste of time, resources and patience.

        • Anonymous

          Elementary, standard (redundant, by the way) science, eh? I say we break down the number of calories consumed using Software Center vs. Typing Into Terminal. We’ll need to account for neuronal activity, eye movement, finger movement, wrist movement, fidgeting in the chair, right- and left-clicking ratio, amount of time spent waiting for terminals to open compared to that of Software Center…

          Damn, this post is almost as long as an instruction set for installing a single app via Software Center. Wish someone had just posted a damn CLI line for me to copy-and-paste…

          Every time this stupid “Ban the Command Line” argument comes up, it devolves into some idiot demanding someone else do all the work for them. Start your own blog, and waste your own time treating everyone like an idiot. By now, you have to be an expert at SC installation anyway, so what do you care how they post?

          • Alaukik

            “Damn, this post is almost as long as an instruction set for installing a single app via Software Center. ”

            Not at all

            ‘Go To Applications->Software center Then Edit->software sources-> other software tab and add the ppa the close it and install app from the software center’

            Total post word count = 396
            GUI instructions word count =24

            if 24 is almost as long as 386 for you then probably you should not use a computer

          • Alaukik

            Typo in the last paragraph and i can’t edit my posts :(

          • Anonymous

            sudo add-apt-repository ppa:natesm/ease
            sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ease

            Total “word” count: 17. That would include the two ampersands (&&) and exclude all other punctuation, FYI. And I didn’t have the audacity to run a word count on the entire blog entry. Besides that, your explanation of how to install a package via Software Center is coherent only to those who already know how to use it. Therefore, it’s pointless–much like your constant bitching about the command line. I must admit I’m biased toward it, having used Arch, Sabayon, Gentoo, and other systems requiring it; but my favorable bias toward the command line is in that sense far more rational than your seething hatred of it, and the illogical rants you waste others’ time with expressing that hatred.

            Study up on your logic, formulate a cohesive and coherent argument, start a thread on the Ubuntu forums explaining why Ubuntu ought to completely turn away from a CLI, and then prepare yourself for the ridicule that will follow and suck it up. One need not use a terminal or console at all to perform any basic operations in Ubuntu; that’s what makes it so friendly to noobs. But to demand that we all keep ourselves in a state of willful ignorance–and go through some extra work at the same time–because you can’t be bothered to memorize a few words ( and seem to have some weird-ass, ideological axe to grind) is insulting and asinine. Quit whining and piss off already. And with that–I’m out.

          • Alaukik

            @ ANOKUSA “Total “word” count: 17″
            Is it so much of a trouble for the authors to write 7 more words?

            “One need not use a terminal or console at all to perform any basic operations in Ubuntu”

            Installing an application not in a repo is a basic task and it is mostly instructions are given in terminal

          • Alaukik

            @ ANOKUSA “Total “word” count: 17″
            Is it so much of a trouble for the authors to write 7 more words?

            “One need not use a terminal or console at all to perform any basic operations in Ubuntu”

            Installing an application not in a repo is a basic task and it is mostly instructions are given in terminal

        • Anonymous

          Elementary, standard (redundant, by the way) science, eh? I say we break down the number of calories consumed using Software Center vs. Typing Into Terminal. We’ll need to account for neuronal activity, eye movement, finger movement, wrist movement, fidgeting in the chair, right- and left-clicking ratio, amount of time spent waiting for terminals to open compared to that of Software Center…

          Damn, this post is almost as long as an instruction set for installing a single app via Software Center. Wish someone had just posted a damn CLI line for me to copy-and-paste…

          Every time this stupid “Ban the Command Line” argument comes up, it devolves into some idiot demanding someone else do all the work for them. Start your own blog, and waste your own time treating everyone like an idiot. By now, you have to be an expert at SC installation anyway, so what do you care how they post?

    • http://www.google.com/profiles/harveycabaguio Harvey

      software center is slow, compared to apt-get.

      • https://launchpad.net/~brettcornwall Chauncellor

        Firefox/Chrome is slow compared to the Lynx text browser, too ;)

        • http://twitter.com/kotaweaver Kota Weaver

          I used to use Lynx exclusively… (back before I had a graphical interface installed on my Gentoo machine..) I still use it quite frequently, like on my Debian server. In fact, I viewed this site a few days ago in Lynx.

        • http://www.duldrum.com Ryan

          Heh. I tend to do a fair amount of my web browsing in Lynx. Plus, I get a lot of weird looks from my classmates and professors when they notice that I’m not using a graphical environment (tty terminals are amazing for a “I’m going to install updates on this one, compile on this one, check updates to facebook/twitter here, and watch a video on the graphical output as well” work method.)

    • http://twitter.com/TuxDotKing Avichi Suite

      Mods, I’m still waiting for you guys to do your jobs here :P

      • Daniel Foré

        We can’t always get to something as soon as its posted. We have lives too ;)

        • http://twitter.com/mickstep Michael Stephenson

          He means ban Alaukik.

    • http://twitter.com/ethana2 ethana2

      Maybe ’cause the …don’t. Software Center ftw.

      • Alaukik

        Tell this to omg authors

        • Anonymous

          Telling what to do to a machine is MUCH easier than telling what to do to a human. OMG authors know this. They don’t write “Open ‘System’ menu, go to ‘Administration’, choose ‘Software sources’, switch to ‘Other software’ tab, click ‘add’, paste this, click ‘OK’, click ‘Close’, click ‘Refresh’, … “.

          • http://vincentt.myopenid.com/ Vincent

            They should. Perhaps an “How to install software template”, that takes a PPA line and package name as parameters, and displays a brief guide on how to install it as a result in the post.

    • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/R25APX2NWD4262MDEYS2BWWEZU Mikolaj

      Software center is great for browsing when you do not know the actual name of the package. But when you do apt-get is faster and simpler. :)

      • Anonymous

        apt-cache search …

      • Alaukik

        Using gnome is really slow and even using a desktop environment is really slow why not just operate the computer from the commandline and browse internet using lynx ? do you(on your desktop computer)?

        • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/R25APX2NWD4262MDEYS2BWWEZU Mikolaj

          I don’t get your argument. So what we should not use the command-line at all? And apt-get is faster not because of the speed of gnome, or software center, but simply because if the site like this one gives you the command you just copy paste it and with software center you need to find the app, install it, it just takes more time. There are plenty of cases when commandline is slower and GUI is easier, this is not one of them, nothing beats the simplicity of copy-paste-enter.

      • Anonymous

        sudo apt-get install XXX
        is so ingrained in muscle memory
        I find it hard to use Synaptic sometimes

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HHS3YNBYUFBBEPUESRLV747QOM Dylan

      Trust me noobs really, really dont prefer sudo apt-get!!

      • Alaukik

        I know it was a sarcastic comment because our arrogant and stubborn autors think that if you use linux terminal is the easiest way for everything and everyone should use that thats why they always post terminal commands to add a rep[o when there is software source and they use apt-get to install when there is software center

        • http://twitter.com/mickstep Michael Stephenson

          What’s arrogant and stubborn is to think that you can impose your will on the authors by this constant badgering in the comment section, and then to insult them calling them arrogant and stubborn.
          This is a site owned by Joey and Benjamin. It is not owned by the community, it’s not under collective ownership. It is owned by them and they have the exclusive editorial right to post whatever the hell they want.
          It’s fine to bring up a discussion to influence make Joey aware of a desire amongst some of the readers to have gui instructions. But this is not intended to do that, this is intended to hold them to ransom with the threat of more trolling until they do as you ask.
          If I were a mod I’d have banned you already.
          But frankly if they don’t give you a final warning to stfu and keep your inane drivel in a thread on the forum or faced being banned from commenting after this, they’re nuts.

        • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JFC3ALLXLT5UJMGCMCLDYEOOTU Ciprian

          There isn’t software center in kubuntu.

        • Lakota James Morris

          What the hell is so hard about copy pasting into a terminal to add a repo? I don’t care how stupid you are when it comes to using linux, and I don’t care how long you’ve been using whatever operating system you used before Ubuntu, and I don’t care if Ubuntu makes 37 different GUI’s for adding a repo, copy pasting into a terminal is simple as you can get. Opening software sources is slower, more time consuming, and more complicated than opening a terminal and copy pasting a command. If you think there’s something hard about copy paste, then there is something wrong with you.

          • Alaukik

            “Opening software sources is slower, more time consuming, and more complicated than opening a terminal and copy pasting a command”

            The same way as windows is much more secure and has much lower total cost of ownership than linux”

          • Lakota James Morris

            I don’t follow.

        • http://twitter.com/the_madman Marcus Harrison

          Their instructions were three lines long:

          “Whilst development takes place via git there is a PPA for the curious to install from. Open a Terminal and enter: -
          sudo add-apt-repository ppa:natesm/ease
          sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ease”

          Why don’t YOU write instructions for using the software centre to do the same thing, and we’ll see how long they are by comparison.

          • http://andrealazzarotto.com/ Lazza

            No, he should write instructions to do this on every flavour of Ubuntu! ;)

    • http://www.khattam.info _khAttAm_

      Try explaining how to install it using Software center.

      “Launch Software Center.
      Goto Edit>Software Sources>Other Software tab and click on Add
      (screenshot)
      Add ppa:natesm/ease and close.
      Wait for list update
      (screenshot)
      Click on Ease on Left pane. Look for “Simple and Stylish Presentation application” on the right pane and click on install.
      (screenshot)”

      The terminal alternative is easy to write and easy to follow, IMHO.

      • Alaukik

        No screenshots are required
        it is easy to follow without screensahots

    • Anonymous

      grandma’s like Software Center ;)

      • Anonymous

        I’m guessing you mean “grandmas like Software Center” – the typo made me laugh out loud…

    • http://joop.kiefte.eu/ Joop Kiefte

      Well, in an article it’s just way easier AND more fool-proof to give command line instructions, just as for example for support over the phone (doing that for Windows is crap, I have to hunt on google images for screenshots to know exactly where they put that stuff in Windows 7 etc…)

      Those commands are way more stable, way more reliable to provide instructions, and way smaller too!

  • Yi Sun-sin

    Tried it. Very unstable, but very very promising apps.

  • Anonymous

    Nice…In a few months of active development this could have promise… Ive been using Lotus.. Its amazing. hardly any issues and its so simple to use. love it.

  • Anonymous

    Looks like gnome office is becoming a more a usable alternative to Open Office now with this new app that looks brilliant.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jupiteros Kevin McDole

    Wasn’t this previously known as Glide?

    • http://dottingred.com Daniel Rodrigues

      No, it isn’t. Although both have a common goal, Ease is the result of GSoC 2010 project, while Glide was being developed by GNOME developer Robert Carr as “pet project”. I said was being, because his last git commit dates from June.

      • http://www.facebook.com/jupiteros Kevin McDole

        Lol thanks

  • http://www.cornwall-it.co.uk Cornwall IT

    It seems quite slow and unresponsive during the slide creation stage. Impressive, but if it takes 30 seconds for it to display the single word I typed onto a slide, it’s not going to be much fun trying to create an entire presentation. Showing the presentation was fine though.

  • Anonymous

    Nothing beats IBM Lotus Symphony though. That stuff is sleek.

    • http://thealphanerd.wordpress.com/ Calvin

      And suffering intensive lethargy

  • daas88

    I’m guessing that transitions, effects, videos and the such just work for the application’s own format, and can only be seen on a computer with “ease” installed. Right?

  • Anonymous

    It clearly is very raw, but the potential is there. It has a very fresh, professional look to it. With all that has been happening, this is a very exciting time for the overall progression of the “Linux Desktop Experience”. Between this and the improvements that will, hopefully, be coming in Libreoffice, office software should see measurable improvements in the near future.

  • http://twitter.com/mshenrick Mark Henrick

    how did i guess. no karmic support. ill have to upgrade over the weekend, even tho it will break everything

  • Anonymous

    Where was this little beauty hiding till now??? Now it’s gonna get some real love from me… :)

  • Anonymous

    Looks cool! Pretty unstable and has some infuriating issues, but it makes pretty presentations! I love the effects for the slides; very smooth.

  • http://twitter.com/tripolinights Beacon

    This is an amazing and breakthrough program. Why is this not getting more coverage?! Thank you OMGUbuntu for sharing! One feature I just tried and works is that you can directly insert .FLV videos!! Amazing! The program is still buggy and slow on my computer (I run Ubuntu 10.04, 2 gig RAM, Core 2 Duo). I hope the developers continue to develop and improve it.

  • https://launchpad.net/~serrano-pereira Serrano

    Now this is the kind of presentation app I was hoping for! The transition effects from OpenOffice Impress look really ugly. My fellow class mates always had much better looking presentations with their Windows and Mac apps. I’ll finally be able to make a good impression with the awesome transition effects Ease is providing (thanks to the use of Clutter). For now it’s not very stable (crashed more than 5 times on me already), but I can’t wait to use this for my presentations in the near future.

  • Anonymous

    Can you cut and paste images from Inkscape, Powerpoint can but OOO couldn’t.

  • https://launchpad.net/~ethana2 ethana2

    As long as they don’t pull an abiword and default to some weird file format that no one gives a darn about while mangling every ODF file it touches trying to stamp “KILROY WAS HERE” on it, Ubuntu will have its first decent presentation app.

    ……I’m tired of making things in Impress and then using Evince to actually show them because I’m so ashamed of OO.o’s GUI.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ON6CS3UJOSXBQ7RM3LUWAERN2A d4rk_l1gh7

    hmm, this might become something way better than MSPP’2010!

    It’s got the potential!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ON6CS3UJOSXBQ7RM3LUWAERN2A d4rk_l1gh7

    hmm, this might become something way better than MSPP’2010!

    It’s got the potential!

  • Anonymous

    its written in vala!! sorry if it seems like im obsessed with vala but…

    VALA APPS ROCK!!!!

  • http://dismaldenizen.wordpress.com dismal_denizen

    Do want. It currently lacks a bit of polish (eg no tooltips, redrawing issues), but hopefully Ease will mature into a great application.

  • http://twitter.com/kylehotchkiss Kyle Hotchkiss

    Ehh, I’d be much happier if they just made an original presentation application. Something with a feature set like propresenter but with some awesome artwork already there, good fonts, etc.

  • Anonymous

    Please keep updating about the development of this! I don’t make a lot of presentations, but when I do, Impress just doesn’t seem as easy to use as this. I’ll hang on to it while this one is under development though.

  • http://twitter.com/cranil Anil C R

    meh… beamer ftw :D

    on a more serious note, the app does look promising as the others pointed out. the simplicity of the app is stunning :D

  • http://twitter.com/cranil Anil C R

    ahhh… no bullets!

  • http://www.MatthiasHeil.de Matthias Heil

    EASE presentation software for Gnome: This is a beautiful and very promising app, and I hope able and people of good taste and little stubbornness (some of the comments in this thread make my stomach churn, and let me question OMG readers’ vision) will team up to really make it shine. Usual import and export formats are a must, for a start, realtime updates for font size changes etc. and many more details need development. A more impressive icon (for Faenza, too, please) would also be nice… – An excellent start, though – kudos to Nate Stedman and Stéphane Maniaci – keep up the exemplary work, boys!

  • http://phontanka.hu/ phontanka

    As long as it doesn’t support ODF it’s completely useless for me.

  • Anonymous

    It works pretty good, until I go for the second time to that presentation mode. Locks up my PC immediatly. Even alt+printscreen+K doesn’t work, needs a hard reboot :(. But until that happens, really nice stuff!

  • Raul

    I can’t install, how to solve this problem :

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    ease : Depends: libease-core-0.4-0 (= 0.4-0ppa3maverick1) but it is not going to be installed
    Depends: librest-0.6-0 (>= 0.6.1) but it is not installable
    Depends: librest-extras-0.6-0 but it is not installable

    Thanks!

  • Anonymous

    English: The aim that has this program is amazing, especially because there is no application that is specifically devoted to presentations – personally I do not like Open Office, especially because it don’t have the 3D effects it had in version 2.3 – however, a Suggestion: I would like the effects of each element of each slide individually manerajara. So the effects could occur per element. :) (Like KeyNote)Spanish: La mira que tiene este programa es asombrosa, sobre todo porque no existe una aplicación que sea dedicada específicamente a presentaciones – personalmente no me gusta el Open Office, sobre todo porque no tengo los efectos 3D que tenía en la versión 2.3 – ahora bien, una sugerencia: me gustaría que los efectos de cada elemento de cada diapositiva se manerajara de forma individual. Así los efectos pudieran presentarse por elemento. :)

  • Anonymous

    I want to see this baby fight it out with LibreOffice Impress. Unfortunately, I need a stable program for my presentations, so I’ll wait for stable releases of both. But competition is good :) OOO Impress is a nifty, efficient program, but it’s ugly and you really need to search to find halfway decent templates. Hopefully this will up the style ante of my presentations :)

  • Anonymous

    Looks really promising! So simple that i would rate it “elementary” ;-)

  • http://www.khattam.info _khAttAm_

    Unstable but promising.

    Would like to see “Export Presentation ‘Standalone EXE’”.

  • http://www.google.com/profiles/111495180362129872253 Timtro

    What is the name of the font used for the word ‘Ease’ in the animated carousel entry for this article? It’s beautiful.

  • http://twitter.com/natakusumah Ichsan Natakusumah

    Love this app! But can the presentation file opened in Powerpoint so I can open it while not using Ubuntu?

    • Anonymous

      No. Currently it only works with its native format.

  • Anonymous

    When you said “Impress” I didn’t remember if it was from Office, iWork, or OO.o.

  • Anonymous

    Looks like a Midori again… Slightly unstable start, but with a lot of promise that might (hopefully) get to be something strong on Linux (and this is filling one big need on Linux – especially for students).The day this gets PPT support though, I’m switching over to it from Impress – it’s stable enough on my Mint box. Only bug so far is how it will not display a menu on Global Menu (or subsequently its own) if you open the Template Chooser first. =[

  • http://twitter.com/Fitoschido Adolfo Jayme

    Sorry, but Ease is extremely buggy and incompatible with other formats, bad start… If you want to apply a transition to a slide, Ease closes automagically…
    Why OMG! U! don’t try apps well before posting them?

    • daas88

      And why don’t you read the whole article before trying the app (or before bashing on the app)? It clearly says it’s in early development.

  • http://twitter.com/Fitoschido Adolfo Jayme

    Sorry, but Ease is extremely buggy and incompatible with other formats, bad start… If you want to apply a transition to a slide, Ease closes automagically…
    Why OMG! U! don’t try apps well before posting them?

  • http://ubuntex.blogspot.com João Santana

    I have a little problem to run ease from Maverick:

    joao@lightsaber:~$ ease
    failed to create drawable

    ** (ease:11537): CRITICAL **: file ease-main.c: line 413: unexpected error: Unable to select the newly created GLX context (clutter-init-error-quark, -2)

    Someone can help me with this, please?

  • Anonymous

    Any update on this? I haven’t seen LibreOffice Impress yet, but I doubt it’s much better than OpenOffice Impress.

  • Anonymous

    Any update on this? I haven’t seen LibreOffice Impress yet, but I doubt it’s much better than OpenOffice Impress.

  • http://cgabeng.blogspot.com/ andi

    it’s really easy to use but i can’t open a .ppt file using this app

  • http://cgabeng.blogspot.com/ andi

    it’s really easy to use but i can’t open a .ppt file using this app

  • Taylor Hillegeist

    This project shouldn’t die… it has too much potential.

  • Arash R

    somehow it has been disappeared from oneiric. I tried to add the ppa but during the apt-get update I get following error
     Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/natesm/ease/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/main/source/Sources  404  Not FoundW: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/natesm/ease/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not FoundW: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/natesm/ease/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/main/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not FoundE: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

 
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