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.
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?
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.
