good deal for Nexus 7 today

[Dave Germiquet]

I have the nexus 7. It's a good device even with android on it. Use it for
reading ebooks, PDFs and watching videos and just regular browsing. I got
in September. The battery also lasts a long time
On 14 Mar 2013 18:25, "Michael Hill" <mdhillca-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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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