[KDE] My experience with KDE on the 810 - Page 4 - maemo.org

PinCushionQueen | # 31 | 2008-04-17, 13:47 | Report

Originally Posted by qole View Post

Yes, those are all nice things... for a desktop computer, which has a full keyboard, mouse, and one or more 17+" non-touch screen(s). I've got several of those, and I use all that stuff constantly on them.

The whole design aesthetic of the N8x0 is focussed on the touch screen. It is bizarre to say that you don't want to "smudge" your screen; that's the whole point of the tablet! The tiny, squishy keyboard on the N810 wasn't intended for "keyboard shortcuts" either. A windowing interface is great when you have lots of real-estate to spread the windows out on, but boy, it gets busy in a hurry on the tablet's screen.

Ok I guess this is where we totally disagree. I think that the N810 keyboard WAS made for keyboard shortcuts - it certainly wasn't made for typing long letters. Pressing one key or Ctrl+key is so quick and easy - or is it just because I'm a girl and my fingers are smaller?

And it's not so much that I don't want to smudge my screen (although that does bug me

) it's really more that I don't want to have to go back and forth. I could just use the stylus all the time I suppose and sometimes I do - I just like having the choice. Sometimes it's difficult to accurately tap the screen when I'm riding the bus and it's jostling me.

Before my N810 I used a Palm TX - one very active thread on 1src was for software to allow the user to hack the TX and use the 4 little buttons for multiple tasks. Even in the Palm arena users were wanting to do more with the buttons and less with the stylus. Now I've got ~50 + buttons that I can use do things.

Hildon is not fully finger friendly - it's kinda hit or miss on whether it works or not. I guess if I really wanted to use my fingers to control everything - I'd go get an iPhone

but then of course I'd loose even more.

GeneralAntilles | # 32 | 2008-04-17, 13:50 | Report

Originally Posted by PinCushionQueen View Post

2)with KDE I can resize windows and move them around the screen such that I can see multiple windows at once.

No overlapping windows and non-resizable windows is a feature of Matchbox. Moving and resizing is just a PITA with a stylus.

TA-t3 | # 33 | 2008-04-17, 14:11 | Report

Originally Posted by qole View Post

The whole design aesthetic of the N8x0 is focussed on the touch screen. It is bizarre to say that you don't want to "smudge" your screen; that's the whole point of the tablet!

This I have to completely disagree with, seen from my personal point of view: The point of a touch screen isn't to be touched by fingers specifically. To me it's for using with a stylus, and using fingers is a last resort, nothing else (I occasionally do the single tap with a nail but I _hate_ touching screens of any kind with fingers, and I _hate_ it when people go fingering _my_ screens and displays).

So in short, what I take issue with is the implied claim that touch screens are for use with fingers: They are as much for use with a stylus, and what you end up using is simply a matter of personal preference.

qole | # 34 | 2008-04-17, 17:22 | Report

Originally Posted by TA-t3 View Post

... I _hate_ it when people go fingering _my_ screens and displays...

Hahaha when you put it that way, it sounds kinda dirty...

I have a little squirty bottle and a nice soft screen-cleaning rag. I use it a lot, but hey.

I lost my styluses for a couple of months, and recently, a very nice guy on Craigslist mailed me a new one for free. So I've been using anything that comes to hand (fingers, pencils, pens, etc) for a long time. I keep forgetting that I have a real stylus again.

Last edited by qole; 2008-04-17 at 17:25.