good deal for Nexus 7 today

[Michael Hill]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:49 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I don't understand what that means.  Clearly you mean at least that
> GNOME Shell doesn't work on Nexus 7 under Ubuntu.  How about GNOME
> applications?

GNOME apps I've tried that just work... Terminal, Evince (I did the
test with the 35-megabyte OOXML spec mentioned in a bug), Nautilus.
The toolchain required to build jhbuild, then jhbuild GNOME, installs
and gets about half-way to gnome-shell before failing.

> I'm not sure what Unity is now.  It used to be a shell for X
> applications, I think.  GTK-based, I think.  But now, with the
> announcement of Mir, I think that Unity is a brand name and design and
> not necessarily a particular program (I think that at least some of
> it/them is/are going to be QT-based).

This project is over a year old, so this is the good old X/GTK-based
Unity. LightDM and GDM both work, but Unity is the only session I've
succeeded in launching.

> Could you elaborate on what works, how well, and what doesn't work and
> why?

Everything I've tried has been from the dock or the command line
except the command line, and launching Terminal (or anything not in
the dock) is as simple as tapping the Ubuntu icon at the top of the
dock and starting to type the name. After that it will show in the
search results, so it's tap tap (or dock it for next time).

Touch works well (except for a scrollbar on the right edge of the
screen which can never be hit, but this only matters in Terminal where
you can't scroll using your finger in the middle of the window). I
could get used to Onboard, the on-screen keyboard, but have yet to
figure out the double-click key -- I launch things from Nautilus by
selecting them and hitting Enter, usually succeeding on the second try
because on the first I forgot it was necessary.

Mike
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