Well, my excursion into “Tablet Kde” is missing two main features of using Kde well on a Tablet Pc…. one is really a show-stopper… there’s no on screen keyboard, no hold-to-right-mouse-click, and there’s no rotation that I can find. It would be nice also if there were some cool “pen” applications. If I had more time on my hands, I might try my hand with a qt-x11 or kde based screen keyboard…
I know I can run Opie or Qtopia on it, and probably do ok, which is on the agenda for this. 
I haven’t had device problems for a few years in linux, and the only thing not working well out of the box with a Kubuntu install is the internal wifi. The community developed bleeding edge barely beta driver works - barely. Keeps stopping sending/receiving packets after a while, and I have to ifdown ath0; ifup ath0.
I bought this tablet for my wife and I, and she has barely had any time on it so far. Maybe in a few weeks, dear.
Since I work at an IT place, I seem to have become the family sys-admin. Today I get to troubleshoot wifi and try to get ‘Yardi’, an ms-dos program, running better on Winxp (oi!). I broke my bro’s internet connection the other day, but at least now he has access to the web configuration on his router. oh well, couldn’t be helped… he lost the password, and didn’t the know configuration his weird satellite/phone internet system needs, so he now has to wait for his ISP support to phone. That’ll teach him for asking me for sys-admin duties!
hmmm.. should I bring home my webpal…
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What I’m after the most is a way to annotate PDFs (using the stylus of course) in KDE. I could do without the other features if someone made a sane app to draw onto PDFs and finally remove WinXP from my Portege M200 ;).
There is an onscreen keyboard — see viki in kdereview.
Screen Rotation in KDE:
Control Center > Peripherals > Display >
“Orientation” box.
Not sure how it works though. Just bought a 19′ Dell LCD that can swivel, and looking for ways to enable it myself.
when attempting to resolve this issue it would be interesting to think about it with a broader scope … http://www.dontclick.it/
what tablet pc do you have? i have a fujitsu stylistic 5010, and ive only found one person who has been able to install linux on it (gentoo and very sloppy). does your tablet have drives or do you rely on a docking station? my biggest hurdle is getting linux installed on the damn thing, but from the gentoo experience, all the hardware should work and the x11 tools are ok
About the DOS application. You should try DOSBox, it now has a Windows frontend:
http://www.jaegertech.com/dosboxer
DOSBox:
I have a Table PC too, a Motion M1200. But the Video BIOS is so horrible broken that it can’t run the display at native resolution. You get crash dumps from the Video BIOS in the X logs when you try other settiggs than Windows safe mode and BIOS Setup resolutions.
I placed some comment here about DOSBox, why didn’t it appear? It was something along the lines that DOSBox now has a Windows version, and I added some usefull links.
Well, i have Portege M200, Kubuntu 5.10 was installed on it, but stylus isn’t work yet
Buz, i seen you use same tablet. would you give me manual or step installation
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I recently bought an HP TC4200, and almost everything on it works as you’d expect. To get on-the-fly rotation, you’ll need Xorg 7.0 from CVS, but the pen works with the linuxwacom project, suspend-to-disk works beautifully, sound, USB, and all that is fine. The only two things that are missing that I’d like to get resolved is suspend-to-RAM, and there’s an SD slot that isn’t supported… but, then, I’ve had three laptops with SD slots, and none of them have ever worked under Linux.
4 hour runtime, with only the internal battery, and there’s a place to slot an external battery. A nipple *and* a touchpad. Seriously, this is the perfect laptop, and I highly recommend it.
— SER