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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 [...]
Clean Up the Unity Launcher with Category Quick-lists
The Unity launcher is a shelf for managing and launching our favourite applications.
But on smaller screens, such as those on netbooks, it’s easy for it to become so stacked full of pinned and running apps that things become slightly unmanageable.
If you find that that’s the case for you then give one of these ‘themed’ category quick-lists a go. They group popular applications together in a handy right-click quick-list.
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.
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.
Precise Update Removes Giant Shortcuts from Dash
We previously mentioned that the ‘Giant Shortcuts’ in Unity’s Dash were being given the ol’ heave-ho in Ubuntu 12.04.
That update has now landed in the Unity PPA ahead of its push to Ubuntu 12.04.
10 of the Best Unity Lenses & Scopes for Ubuntu
It’s somewhat apt that Ubuntu’s ‘Lenses’ feature has brought Unity into clearer focus for many of its initial critics.
The search-orientated display windows – called ‘Lenses’ – make finding specific files, apps or information easy to do thanks to their tuned ‘search backends’ – called Scopes’.
Inside we lost 10 of the best Lenses and Scopes available for Ubuntu 11.10.
Should CCSM Be Purged from the Ubuntu Repos?
The headline to this article might sound inflammatory but it’s a question currently being debated on the Ubuntu Desktop mailing list.
Ubuntu’s Jorge Castro makes the case for ‘jettisoning’ the tool from the the Ubuntu Universe repositories (i.e. removing it from the Ubuntu Software Centre).
[How to] Play with Unity ‘Keyboard Shortcuts Overlay’ In Ubuntu 12.04
If you’ve upgraded Unity in Precise so you can play with Ubuntu’s new ‘HUD’ feature then you also have another slick new update ready and waiting to be checked out…
Precise Adds New Unity Configuration Options
A handful of new configuration options have landed in the Ubuntu 12.04 ‘User Interface’ settings pane.
[How To] Install Unity’s HUD Feature in Ubuntu 12.04
Reading about a new feature is all well and good – but there’s nothing quite like playing with it, right?
HUD, Ubuntu’s new modern approach to using application menus, will land in Unity on Ubuntu 12.04 over the next month or so.
But chances are you can’t wait that long so, assuming you’re using Ubuntu 12.04, a HUD-enabled version of Unity can be installed from the Unity Team HUD PPA.
Meet HUD: The New Way of Using App Menus in Ubuntu
A brand new way of using application menus in Unity interface is coming to Ubuntu. HUD – Heads UP Display – uses an intelligent search-based approach to finding and accessing menu items you need. It’s smart too; HUD is capable of remembering what items you use most often and prioritising them in the results. The goal is [...]
Unity’s Dash to Ditch Giant Shortcuts
Not a fan of the 8 giant shortcuts in the Unity Dash? Ubuntu 12.04 might just present you with something different…
Ubuntu developers are testing a new layout for the Unity ‘Home Lens’.
[How To] Make Unity’s Launcher GNOME-Shell Friendly
The expression ‘Have your cake and eat it‘ springs to mind when looking at the following GNOME-Shell tweak put together by Tobias Mann. ‘Unitary GNOME’ lets you run a modified version of the Unity 2D Launcher inside GNOME-Shell. Tobias’ tweak removes the ‘Dash’ and ‘Workspace’ buttons from the Launcher so that it can be used [...]
[How to] Install Unity 5.0 in Ubuntu 11.10
Unity 5.0 hit Ubuntu 12.04 last night, but Ubuntu 11.10 users don’t need to miss out: Unity 5.0 is also available to install in Oneiric.
Ubuntu 12.04 Lets You Disable ‘Apps for Download’ in Unity
Ubuntu 12.04 has added the option to disable the “Apps available for Download” pane shown in Unity’s Applications Lens