12-10-2019, 02:03 PM
@Phie I thought I'd follow up, after charging up the PB and booting this last night, that this new image has major improvements!
I didn't play with the camera at all, mostly because I saw on your site that it's still a WIP.
So far the only things that have stood out to me are:
1. When I was on your site, reading the post about /e/ for the Pinebook and phone, you should a screenshot of the PB1080 with a Taskbar setup for the home screen, but the image uses the original launcher (which works much better with the trackpad now!) If the use of Taskbar is more of a "down-the-road" intention, I full-heartedly back this!
2. MicroG still has a problem somewhere. When going through settings to add my Google account into MicroG, it gets stuck at the last step, after signin and authorization. I did see a few emails go to my recovery email, and another to my Gmail, telling me I was now logged into my Samsung Galaxy 9, and ready to go. I didn't see any references in the system info to the Galaxy 9, but figured it was related to the image.
Regardless of the email, I let the PB sit on the screen, "trying," for several hours, but it did not complete. I backed out of it later on, and despite the emails from Google, MicroG showed no account linked.
I haven't had much time to play on it otherwise, but cursory impression is that it's a good build!
Question: will you, or are you, considering including root for the user in any future builds? I know it's available to adb, but I think for the PB1080 it will drastically increase the usability as an Android laptop.
I didn't play with the camera at all, mostly because I saw on your site that it's still a WIP.
So far the only things that have stood out to me are:
1. When I was on your site, reading the post about /e/ for the Pinebook and phone, you should a screenshot of the PB1080 with a Taskbar setup for the home screen, but the image uses the original launcher (which works much better with the trackpad now!) If the use of Taskbar is more of a "down-the-road" intention, I full-heartedly back this!
2. MicroG still has a problem somewhere. When going through settings to add my Google account into MicroG, it gets stuck at the last step, after signin and authorization. I did see a few emails go to my recovery email, and another to my Gmail, telling me I was now logged into my Samsung Galaxy 9, and ready to go. I didn't see any references in the system info to the Galaxy 9, but figured it was related to the image.
Regardless of the email, I let the PB sit on the screen, "trying," for several hours, but it did not complete. I backed out of it later on, and despite the emails from Google, MicroG showed no account linked.
I haven't had much time to play on it otherwise, but cursory impression is that it's a good build!
Question: will you, or are you, considering including root for the user in any future builds? I know it's available to adb, but I think for the PB1080 it will drastically increase the usability as an Android laptop.
