Having described my keyboard problems above which didn't improve with the new version, let me now come to the good news: The new image is really great! Congratulations and many thanks!

Here's my experience so far:

locales: language setting from Maemo are now taken over in LXDE correctly - with "setxkbmap de" I'm able to work with my German keyboard now that I know its quirks - the missing cursor up and down keys are not severe under LXDE where there is a pointer, and in the terminal with debbie, I don't have any problems with the German keyboard - it just works exactly as it does under Maemo, I don't need debbie stickykeys de for that. I've not succeeded with xbindkeys under debbie, however. Any suggestions?

I've also installed the few things that I really use in Easy Debian, some of which could go actually in the final image without much cost in space:

less as a substitute for more would be nice for many Linux users

vpnc for connecting to Cisco concentrators works like a charm under Easy Debian, also in the new image. Miraculously, I can even use the Maemo browser after having started vpnc in Debian chroot, though only when being connected by WLAN. Under G3, I have to use a browser under Debian, the Maemo browser is then cut off. Since not everybody will be interested in vpnc, I would only advertise it as a good alternative to install vpnc under Easy Debian, since vpnc under Maemo is far from stable.

openssh-client works without a problem, and should go in the final image IMO - no need though to install the sshd under Easy Debian when one has it under Maemo.

cups-client (as opposed to full cups, which I unnecessarily had before) would be nice in the final image - with lpstat -a you find whether there is a network printer available and then you've got full printing support! Installing all of the above fills the image to only 64%!

evince: it's already part of the new image, and I vote for keeping it there! With cups-client, you can then also print your pdf documents! I had a problem with evince in the v2 image - it crashed whenever I tried to view postscript files. Now it didn't crash any longer, but did not go beyond "Loading" displayed. To have a postscript viewer, I then installed gv. After that, also evince was able to display postscript files - I guess because psfontmgr got installed with gv. One issue with evince is that after going to presentation mode, I cannot leave that mode without an F5 key (which xbindkeys can provide under LXDE, but not when launched through debbie...). Presentation mode is then permanent until one removes home/user/.gnome2/evince/ev-metadata.xml manually.

djview4 for viewing djvu files - works great! Started from debbie, it is a great e-book reader. Fully functional, doesn't need a stylus for scrolling. Full-screen toggle works, also under debbie.

xmaxima - works, but like vi needs xbindkeys to get a proper Return key in addition to KP_Enter. That package is somewhat big and thus should not go in the final image, I think. However, with all that I just use 69% of the space in the image!



The only thing that I tried so far which involves sound was youtube.com in iceweasel and the browser in LXDE. There it didn't work however - youtube videos are loaded, but always run only for a few moments when moving the slider. The volume control is turned down and doesn't stay up. As I said, that was just for trying out something with sound.

The only problems worth mentioning are my German keyboard problems and the sticky Control which is somewhat dangerous (an issue for US users, too). Apart from that this is indeed THE ONE!!!

EDIT: Found another small problem worth mentioning, which is a regression of image v3b compared to the v2: "date" now gives the time in PST, but had the correct local time zone before. For those that like me have to look up how that is handled in Debian: the time zone is set by running "dpkg-reconfigure tzdata" in Debian chroot. I'm now puzzled why that was not necessary in the v2 image.