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New Ubuntu Start-Up Sound Chosen
The results of the recent Ubuntu Sound Theme survey, which asked users to pick a new start up for Ubuntu 12.04 from a shortlist of 4 sounds, are in.
Was your favourite chosen? Find out inside…
HUD, New Video Lens Land in Ubuntu 12.04 Unity Update
Unity 5.4 has landed in Ubuntu 12.04 ‘Precise Pangolin’.
The update brings performance, stability and bug fixes, as well as a handful of minor visual changes and features.
Tweet Stream Added to Ubuntu 12.04 Installer
An auto-updating Twitter stream has been added to the Ubuntu 12.04 installer.
The stream shows tweets containing the hashtag #ubuntu, and appears alongside a short blurb on Ask Ubuntu. The slide, titled ‘Any Questions?’, is the last item shown during installation of Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 12.04 Gets A New Video Lens For Finding Online Movies, TV Shows
Searching for something to watch will be much easier in Ubuntu 12.04 thanks to addition of a new default Video Lens.
As well as being able to sift through the metadata of local files stored in your Videos folder based on a search term, the lens is backed by a set of smart ‘remote video’ scopes that query online services such as YouTube Movies, Amazon, indie service VODO and, for British users, the hallowed BBC iPlayer.
Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update
Development Update And again we are in the most interesting time of the release cycle. Today we will hit Feature Freeze at around 21:00 UTC. The time where we stop introducing new features, packages, and APIs, and concentrate on fixing bugs in the development release. Today marks the end of a couple of very busy [...]
Precise Adds User Safeguards to Compiz App
New safeguards have been added to CCSM – the GUI tool for configuring Compiz – to limit damage caused by users unaware of the tools importance.
When launching the app in Ubuntu 12.04 a pop-up box warning users of the potential risks from idly playing around with settings therein. The ability to disable the Unity desktop plugin from the main plugin overview in CCSM has also been removed.
Ubuntu Sound Theme Shortlist Ready – You Help Pick the Winner
Four user-created sound themes have been shortlisted with a view to shipping as default in Ubuntu 12.04. It’s now up to you which of the four goes on to receive additional development. Thoughts, critique and opinion are being sought on the entrants via a survey. The findings of the survey will decide the winning soundscape to be [...]
A Handful of Recent Ubuntu 12.04 Changes…
Ubuntu 12.04 has been gaining more visible UI changes in recent updates due to the looming ‘freezes’ on features and interface changes. Below I present a handful of the more ‘prominent’ visual changes that have landed in Precise since the last lot of ‘prominent visual changes‘. To avoid confusion: tweaks to the look of Ubuntu do [...]
Ubuntu 12.04 To Offer ‘Locally Integrated Menus’ Option
Is Precise gearing up for another change to App Menu behaviour? Sort of. New code aimed at ‘the implementation of locally integrated menubars‘ has been proposed for ‘merging’ into Metacity, Unity, Light Themes and Compiz. The code is also linked to a bug report titled ‘Global menu is not ergonomical on large screens‘. I’m told [...]
Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update 13
Development Update Ubuntu 12.04 is shaping up nicely. Last week Alpha 2 got released, which means you should be testing by now. Next week we will hit Feature Freeze, by which time we “stop introducing new features, packages, and APIs, and concentrate on fixing bugs in the development release”. This also means that new upstream [...]
Mark Shuttleworth Explains Launcher Dodge Decision in Precise
One feature you may be surprised (or relived) to find missing in Ubuntu 12.04 is the ‘Dodge’ effect of the Unity Launcher. A healthy pot of debate has been stirring on the Unity Design mailing list over the decision to remove it entirely and instead default the launcher to ‘not hide’. ‘It Tested Poorly.’ Mark [...]
Privacy Controls & Minor UI Tweaks Land in Ubuntu 12.04
With Ubuntu 12.04 edging closer to its developmental deadlines many of the more visual features and changes are beginning to land in updates. Many of the latest changes, highlighted below, were expected, having previously been highlighted in a series of mock-ups by the Canonical design team. What’s New/Changed Category headers and dividers have been added to the System [...]
Unity 5.2 Lands in Precise, Brings Numerous Changes
Unity 5.2 has arrived in Ubuntu 12.0, a day after the release of alpha 2.
Unity 5.2 has under gone rigorously testing over the past weeks or so ahead of its deposit in Ubuntu 12.04. Along with much improved multi-monitor support come a handful of other notable changes.
Developer Week: Summary Day 3
It’s sad news, yes – Ubuntu Developer Week for the 12.04 cycle is over. It’s been three fantastic days full of action-packed sessions. If you couldn’t attend, check out the logs of the sessions, all of them are posted on the UDW page. Here’s what happened on day 3, yesterday: Fixing Desktop bugs — seb128Sébastien [...]
Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2 Released
The second alpha of Ubuntu 12.04 has been made available for download.
As Ubuntu 12.04 is a ‘Long Term Support’ release development is focusing on creating a dependable stable experience. As such Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2 features only a handful of modest user-visible changes to the desktop.
Check in for screenshots, video and the all important download link.