Call me crazy, but I would love to know if anyone has run / ported the COMPLETE gpe environment to the tablets. That being the desktop (home screen), preferences, and other bits & pieces...

If not that, at least more of the bits & pieces, such as preferences. Doesn't seem I can change the delightful alarm tone right now, for example

PS:
And Yes, I have abandoned my crazy Pimlico-using ways for now and gone to GPE. I realized that its sync solution actually works, and the version in extras-devel is really nice to use. Oh, and I realized that GPE is a recursive acronym with an arbitrary letter G, which automatically puts it in the same place as other awesome free software projects like GNU, Gnome and GTK

when you say desktop , are you referring to the gpe summary applet?

No, I believe he's referring to the whole shebang. Popular for the Sharp Zaurus's (I used to have an SL-5600 & then a C-860 myself).

I don't have all but do have a bit -- contacts -- calendar -- timesheet -- todo -- summary -- syncd. Very workable set of PIM aps although I'm in a total stae of confusion over syncd and Opensync. I've also installed the GPE aps on my Ubuntu desktop. Each ap has it's own sqlite data base so I've tried using bluetooth to move them between the desktop and my N810. Contacts and todo list work but the calendar data base I created on my N810 doesn't seem to work on my Ubuntu desktop. I've not put any data in the timesheet yet so I'm not sure about it's compatibility between platforms. I do wish that gpe-contacts could have imported a single VCF I created with Evolution contacts. Although not part of GPE I found Notecase usefull and it also runs on both platforms and the data base can be used on both platforms. My main use of notepad is for encrypted financial and business data.

Yes, I've used this on the 770 and on the n800 briefly.

Works well as on the Zaurii, the main issue was powersaving. Firstly many of the GPE applets keep timers open (like the clock for example) which means dyntick never works and hence the battery goes flat pretty quickly.

This was a fair while back, so things have probably changed now. Another thing to note is that the battery meter didn't work, but that's a pretty easy patch as we know how to interogate it now. Backlight was another issue, will have to hook into gconf to make that work rather than trying to manipulate the sysfs entry directly (which means it gets turned back to what it was before pretty quickly)

Hi Fragos. With your desktop, you may like to use multisync0.90 (opensync) to synchronize between Evolution on Ubuntu and GPE on the tablet. This way you get nice, desktop-integrated PIM on Ubuntu for your contacts and whatnot

Make sure in Multisync that you tell it to disable syncing of Contacts. (Click on Edit for the sync group, and on the first page it has "disable syncing of objtype"). Naturally, that stops contacts from being synchronized but everything else works!

And yes, I do indeed mean the whole shebang. After some tinkering, I have a hunch that the N810 deserves a more lightweight desktop environment than Maemo offers.

I am running the gpe stuff from Maemo's extras-devel, and it all works smoothly for me except that the alarm sound makes me want to murder someone. (It could do the ambulance sound justice, at least). I had a horrible short battery life at first, but a cold reboot (prompted by the battery running dry for the first time in a month) seems to have fixed that completely. There was some stuff in the mailing list about how GPE's interference with sleeping has been resolved, and that does seem to be the case.

I installed Multisync but don't see how it initiates or works for that matter. I've discovered that the sqlite data bases created on the N810 also work with Ubuntu. I've been syncing by copying from the N810 to my desktop. A shell script on the N810 makes the normally hidden data base files available for processing with the N810 GUI. I use NFS and Unison to sync my Desktop and laptop. With erminig to sync with Google calendar on the N810 everything comes together nicely. In my intial post I failed to mention gpe-summary which I like very much as a permanant fixture on my desktop. I also looked at gpe-filemanger which provides access to the complete file system not available in the standard file manager. It does allow access to hidden files but you have to enter them in the location field by hand. I'd very much like to see the ability to reveal hidden files. Nokia uses hidden files in strange ways.