Thread: [KDE] My experience with KDE on the 810
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2008-04-17 , 13:47
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Originally Posted by qole View Post
Yes, those are all nice things... for a desktop computer, which has a full keyboard, mouse, and one or more 17+" non-touch screen(s). I've got several of those, and I use all that stuff constantly on them.

The whole design aesthetic of the N8x0 is focussed on the touch screen. It is bizarre to say that you don't want to "smudge" your screen; that's the whole point of the tablet! The tiny, squishy keyboard on the N810 wasn't intended for "keyboard shortcuts" either. A windowing interface is great when you have lots of real-estate to spread the windows out on, but boy, it gets busy in a hurry on the tablet's screen.
Ok I guess this is where we totally disagree. I think that the N810 keyboard WAS made for keyboard shortcuts - it certainly wasn't made for typing long letters. Pressing one key or Ctrl+key is so quick and easy - or is it just because I'm a girl and my fingers are smaller?

And it's not so much that I don't want to smudge my screen (although that does bug me ) it's really more that I don't want to have to go back and forth. I could just use the stylus all the time I suppose and sometimes I do - I just like having the choice. Sometimes it's difficult to accurately tap the screen when I'm riding the bus and it's jostling me.

Before my N810 I used a Palm TX - one very active thread on 1src was for software to allow the user to hack the TX and use the 4 little buttons for multiple tasks. Even in the Palm arena users were wanting to do more with the buttons and less with the stylus. Now I've got ~50 + buttons that I can use do things.

Hildon is not fully finger friendly - it's kinda hit or miss on whether it works or not. I guess if I really wanted to use my fingers to control everything - I'd go get an iPhone but then of course I'd loose even more.
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