I have been using KDE now for about a week, and i just wanted to post these observations, i first installed debs, then installed MMC boot.

1) Boot from MMC is about 20% faster than the deb's, its worth doing it that way. also, maemo runs about 20% faster from MMC as well, i think it has to do with the MMC vs ROM speed

2) Speed is good, its not like my quad core desktop, but for 400 mhz, its pretty quick and definatly usable, moreso from MMC.

3) everything works, including video center and maemo-mapper.. no slowdown at all.

4) your tablet is no longer a tablet, its a computer.

the only downside i see is the browser, it would be nice to be able to run at least the minimo built in, konquorer doesnt support flash and some other plugins..

not that im into utube or anything, but there are plenty of sites that use flash out there.

overall, except for the browser, i have no idea why anyone wouldnt use KDE instead of the stock OS.

Yeah, adding KDE effectively converts your tablet into a fairly competent computer. I've been very impressed by it so far. All it really needs are some tablet specific applets added -> for power, bluetooth, wifi, etc. all the stuff at the top of the screen in the default UI.

I really wish some real developers would get onboard with making a KDE version for the tablet. You have to understand I worked at it quite a bit just to get KDE to compile and run. I am not a developer. I am a unix admin, and I can compile software that other people make, but I can not alter it for the most part. I love KDE on the tablet, I love printing from my tablet. I love having a tiny full featured computer in my hands. I really wish we could get some developers onboard so we could get some usefull applets in KDE. The hardware is awesome, we just need some real developers onboard.

Its only about 120 source packages

NOKIA MAEMO KDE ANYONE?????????

Yeah, I'm not a C/C++ guy so I'm not much help. Maybe we should try to get The KDE community or even the KDE dev team involved? If we could scrape enough people together we could probably buy a couple N800s to send over. A cool device in hand is usually enough to motivate Linux programmers, right?

Hi
Can you install and run Skype, Firefox and VLC Media player on the KDE desktop?
If yes, then how is the performance?

Thanks.

skype works (i use it)

firefox - No

VLC - dont know, I just use the one built in with mplayer.

the new videoCenter works perfectly with it too

the only thing really missing is a GOOD browser (like mozilla)

What are you missing from Konqueror that you get from Microb -other than a flash program? Konqueror does a ton of things. You can get YouTube videos with the new MyTube app.

There are a lot of other neato browsers out there that might work. I like one called Skipstone, which I saw in Puppy Linux. It's a Mozilla relative.

I think working to get the maemo browser to work under KDE will be the quickest path to success with flash.

The browser starts, but its blank, and the menu is there but does not seem to be working.

I am certain a script could be written to start microb under KDE.

Any ideas anyone?