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Pine64 is an organization that designs, manufactures, and sells single-board computers, notebook computers, a smartwatch, and smartphones.

https://www.pine64.org/

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GNOME Mobile shell running on PineTab2 (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by tophneal to c/[email protected]

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Still a lot of unfinished styling/animations, and several apps can't yet utilize the OSK, but so far I'm liking this GNOME far better than vanilla on the PT2. Installed on Danctnix via gnome-mobile-shell from the AUR.

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[–] Klaymore 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is that Discord in the toolbar? I couldn't get Discord working on my Pinephone Pro without using Waydroid which didn't work great and drained the battery pretty quickly. That was on Phosh though, I tried GNOME Mobile a while ago and liked it better but it was buggy at that time, I hope it becomes usable soon.

[–] tophneal 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

yes, in the dock is armcord-bin, but gtkcord4 works better if you want to be able to use the gnome mobile osk.

[–] Klaymore 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've heard you might get banned if you use third party clients, is that still an issue?

[–] tophneal 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

No idea, honestly. I don’t do anything crazy and most of the servers I’m on are tiny, so if it is true I may just be flying under the radar and going unnoticed.

I tried using the web app after arm-cord didn’t call on the osk, but it didn’t want to let me navigate outside of my friends list, so that’s on them in my book lol

Edit: looks like the possibility of banning is still in the TOS. Hopefully if they choose to aggressively enforce this we’ll get a working Linux client option first.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Pfff, didn't even get the correct date installed. Wipe and reload please

[–] tophneal 1 points 10 months ago

it's the correct date for a pic taken last night ;)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It looks elegant, except those huge fonts.

[–] tophneal 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It definitely could use some refinement for tablet sized screens. I’m just excited this built and runs. I’m hopeful for its updates

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I was actually surprised by the whole thing. Never seen before a Pinetab. Totally agree with you.