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2007-12-12 , 16:48
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Originally Posted by derekp View Post
Has all this been done by someone and I'm just not seeing it? If not, does everyone else think it is a worth-while project? The intent would not be to get the various packages hildonized, but to get them to run in the nested environment so that the n800 can do double duty as a laptop replacement (when paired up with an external keyboard, mouse, and 16-gb memory card).
This was the thought behind porting alternate window managers like KDE and others, you can then port without hildon changes, and mathbox limitations.

So if your using xnest/xepher (I am not familiar with either) is that addressed as a seperate display? This sounds interesting, but I wonder how fast it would be. It may be easy to run some small apps, but I fear running KDE and maemo at the sametime may be too much.

Currently KDE is able to be started from a menu icon, and gives full KDE with Koffice and printing, so isn't it already a laptop replacment? A bt mouse would be nice though!!

I for one am very interested in what you can come up with, and I look forward to it
 

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