I Want Kde Poll?

[penguinbait]

This is a poll to determine who wants to have KDE available as an alternative window manager made into easy to use debs and try to spur developers to join together to optimize KDE for the nokia platform. I and others have proved KDE can run pretty decent on this platform, I am looking forward to the 2GB OS. This thing can do so much, we just need to make all the software available on this platform, and the quickest way to do that is any WM besides matchbox.

[realcomix]

Did you ever try gnome ... If you did how did that run...i use fedora core 5 with gnome and am verry familiar wth it

[penguinbait]

Did you ever try gnome ... If you did how did that run...i use fedora core 5 with gnome and am verry familiar wth it

I have tried gnome because I initially thought it would be easier to compile. This proved not to be the case, I had much better luck with KDE

[sylfan]

I don't own a n800 but i'm really excited about your kde project. This might be the only reason for me to get another nokia tablet.

[fpp]

Other : I tried and liked WM6, would try and probably like KDE too, but only if it can be made to work on a 770 :-)

[penguinbait]

Other : I tried and liked WM6, would try and probably like KDE too, but only if it can be made to work on a 770 :-)

Not sure if anyone has tried it on the 770? It may work, on the 2007 OS for 770. It will take up close to 1GB after installing OS and then adding KDE, so I reccomend a minimium 2GB partition and 128MB swap, or as big as you can put on 770? I wish I still had mine, I would tell you for sure.

[fpp]

AFAIK you can't have more than 2GB (total) on a 770, because there's only one slot, and that's RS-MMC :-)

[KerwoodDerby]

KDE is a very nice environment with a huge amount of very useful apps. It is also major bloatware which I feel is not fast enough to increase the value of the N800. I think N800 apps should be written/re-written to suit their environment, so I think KDE is a bad match for the N800.

[ssam]

a maemo like interface based on Qt might be good, to ease porting KDE apps.

all of KDE on a n800 would be just as pointless as all of gnome.

i dont think the n800 has enough RAM to have the gtk and qt libraries in memory at the same time.

[joeyman9]

The one feature kde has that I really wish the current xwindows system had is the ability to drag icons out of menus and drop them on the desktop. I'd be happy with just that.

[keyrn1808]

I'm really really interested. Having full application like konqueror, amarok, kedit, .... It's a dream.

If we can have all them installable using apt from a repository, it could be incredible.

Nice work!!!

[penguinbait]

My personal favorites are the things you can do with Konquerer, smb/fish specifically. I can browse remote windows and linux systems. I enjoy the multiple desktops. I like the fact the panel is so configurable. I like the fact that I can run multiple full screen apps at the same time. I like the fact I can have different backgrounds on each desktop. I like that all my (hardware) buttons can be configured differently for each app. I love kpager, always thought it was the best pager, I wish it integrated into the panel.


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[penguinbait]

I'm really really interested. Having full application like konqueror, amarok, kedit, .... It's a dream.

If we can have all them installable using apt from a repository, it could be incredible.

Nice work!!!

Konqueror and Kedit is already available if your running KDE


I agree about the repo, I really want to see a project come out of all this

[penguinbait]

Is this poll dead? I know there any many more people using KDE?

[lucky-luke]

Please, release a .deb for all your window alternatives, as I'm not very used to linux, and I will try them as I think they will be a better way to use my "OLD" N770.
Also, I know that you have a N800, but please release things for n770 and I will try all of them and report.

Thanks

[penguinbait]

I have always been willing to support the 770, but I can not test. If anyone can tell me changes to make, I would, but I have not heard anything. I believe openbox/ROX runs on n770, but needs 2007OS. I have not heard about KDE.

DEBS

Even if I made a deb package, you will still need to do the job of partitioning things to make it available for install. At that point dpkg -i or tar -jxvf, I am not seeing a huge benefit to the deb. Also people would not read, then they would intstall and mess up thier systems. Better to read up front, to find out whats needed to install.

I would love to see a deb with an alternate WM, I may even post one in the future, Afterstep and WM are good candidates for being small enough to run from flash. Alternately I would like to see Nokia provide KDE

[SeRi@lDiE]

I agree with penguinbait there is no real benefit of having a deb... It would just cause head aches...

[aleksandyr]

A deb would be pretty close to useless.

I would say a tarball and shellscript that does all of the work for you --- given a clean MMC card to work with --- would be quite effective in getting more to try it out.

[lucky-luke]

Ok, I see that a tarball and an automated script will be better than a deb.
This would be OK.
And yes, I would like to have an alternative window manager, and It could be interesting to put it in a Flash image .
Good job