News, tips and features on the Unity desktop environment, the default shell in Ubuntu.
Of all the contentious UI changes to feature in Unity – from auto-hiding menus and immovable launcher position – one stirs up more passion than any other: the inability to minimise applications by clicking on an app icon.
Whether you find Unity's shopping suggestions to be a subtle invasion of privacy, or a solution in need of a problem, Ubuntu make it easy to disable results you don't want to see.
In the current daily builds of Ubuntu 14.04 the Unity global menu can now be disabled on a per-app basis.
An 'Early Alpha' of Unity 8 is available to try in Ubuntu 13.10 from today - but don't expect to find it fully functional quite yet...
An update that allows users to open apps from the Dash with a single click is on its way back to the Saucy Salamander.
Ubuntu's design team want to know how you use Unity's Dash to search for products.
A recent design change to Unity Dash behaviour in Ubuntu 13.10 has been met with irritation by early testers.
The next major update to Windows 8 will add a new search experience to the Windows 8 desktop - one that Ubuntu users will already be familiar with.
It may be 5 months away from release but we already know most of the new features planned for Unity in Ubuntu 13.10.
'Feedly Unity Webapp' inserts your Feedly feed counts into the Ubuntu Messaging Menu, and displays an unread total badge on its Unity Launcher item.
It might not have been mature enough to ship in Ubuntu 13.04, but work on enhancing the "Smart Scopes Service" continues apace.
They're not headline features, but these 7 bits of polish to the Unity desktop in Ubuntu 13.04 deserve a bit of limelight...