Thread: Kde on n800?
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2007-03-20 , 10:59
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Originally Posted by Supergeek View Post
What are the tangible benefits for using KDE or RoxBox or other alternatives to the Hildon interface?

Is it primarily so you can run non-Hildonized apps?
I don't know about others, but personally I like to be the one in control of my desktop, not the window manager. Hildon forces me to run applications fullscreen, whether I like that or not; Hildon doesn't allow me to (easily) change desktop fonts or eyecandy; Hildon is, as Sean Luke pointed out, in various places quite un-ergonomically set up, but I can't change that.

I had a Zaurus at one time, and I found that using the alternate window managers was cumbersome because of the relatively small window widgets that had to be manipulated via the stylus. I would imagine on the N770 or N800 the difficulty would be very similar.
Maybe, but KDE is flexible. It wouldn't be that difficult to make it nicer and there are tons of skins out there that give you the window widgets you like.

You'd think they'd (Nokia) have some kind of wrapper that could run anything within the Hildon UI so people wouldn't have to boot into an alternate window manager, or rewrite apps. Hildon should intercept the standard UI functions of X apps so developers wouldn't have to port, just recompile.
You'd think, but -- no.