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	PinCushionQueen	2008-01-17 , 02:59
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Originally Posted by heron61

I'm both impressed and excited by KDE, and it's pretty much decided me in favor of buying an n810 rather than waiting for one of the various MIDs that will hopefully be released in the next 6 months or so.

I have several questions:

1) Can Kontacts sync with a Windows PC running XP? How difficult is it to accomplish this feat?

2) Can KWord read .rtf files and can it save to .rtf

3) How difficult or lengthy is it to switch between KDE and meamo apps like Canola or the web browser?

I can't answer #1 because I don't use Windows at all. However, I can answer 2 & 3.

#2 Kword will read/write to rtf, odt (OpenOffice =OOo), html, and even some .doc (MS word text only no images). I use OOo at home (as should everybody

) and KWord will open anything from OOo that I throw at it including spreadsheets and presentations. KSpread doesn't seem to like .xls or .ppt but I can open those in OOo and save them to OOo formats and then open them with KOffice apps (I know it's not perfect but it works).

#3 - It takes about a minute to start up KDE or logout of KDE. However, there really is little need to do so. Konquerer is a better browser than Microb IMHO (it does tabbed browsing but lacks Adobe Flash). And you can set up a desktop link for Canola to launch from the KDE desktop. I also launch FBReader, SDictViewer, XMMS (I've switched to it from Canola because I wanted an EQ), EggTimer from KDE desktop. Other than to install XMMS, I haven't used Maemo in a couple of weeks - there might be a way to add repository information to KPackage (the KDE Application Manager) but I haven't taken the time to figure it out yet.

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