<flamebait>I hear a volunteer to re-write all the unique and desirable KDE applications (e.g., digikam, kformula, kmail, karbon14, kplato, kivio, amarok, lyx, syntext serna, bookreader, kdenlive, musescore, kraft, to name a few; see kde-apps.org for more) to be optimized for PDAs.</flamebait>



Seriously though, I may be new here and not quite understand the board dynamic yet, and I know this thread is several months old, but your comment seems unnecessarily negative/discouraging. It looks like penguinbait and kkito have both done some impressive (and useful) work. If you don't find it personally relevant, then perhaps you can contribute an alternative instead of just poopoo-ing someone else's efforts.

The reality is that KDE has been around for years and wasn't made with the intention of running on micro platforms (although the N770, N800 are anything but...). However, imagine if the KDE took off on Maemo. Given a large enough adoption, this might encourage KDE (and third-party application) developers to keep smaller-screen, lower-memory, slower-CPU platforms in mind and take the appropriate optimizations.

Without someone willing to take that first step, none of that will even be possible.

At the very least, exploring what's possible is fun and enlightening and I commend anyone for not only taking the initiative to try it, but to be kind enough to share the experience with the rest of us.