By Benjamin Humphrey, Ubuntu Manual Team leader. UPDATE: I’ve added in “Fixed!” where things are fixed, and “Probably won’t be changed” where it’s more than likely nothing will be changed. In this post I’m going […]
Adverts for search engines feels so very 2000 to me (Yahooooooooooo-oooooh!). In fact the only search engine I’ve seen advertised on TV here in the UK within the last few years has been the increasingly […]
Did you ever get annoyed by the restart/logout/shutdown countdown timers that presented themselves in previous Ubuntu releases? They looked like this: – They were lacking in information – particularly for newer users who might not […]
With so many ‘Ubuntu Light’ inspired/tweaked/modded themes suddenly sailing about the blogosphere, I thought that it was time the very best dropped anchor into the OMG! port so we could check them out in a […]
Banshee will be releasing yet another version of itself very shortly (supposedly today) bringing some new features to the party. Gapless playback? Check. Wikipedia integration? Check. YouTube suggestions?! Check! Demo gnomeuser from the Ubuntu forums […]
Yesterday evening the jolly folk behind launcher-and-then-some GNOME Do held a meeting to set out some goals for the future of the project. Hold on to your seats, kids. Just Do. First things first, the […]
The Ubuntu 10.04 Live CD has ditched the boring ‘black on white text’ menu approach and instead delivers up a GUI menu. Whilst we’re still 2 months away from the final installer design, here’s a […]
I do envision a time when the Window Button Controversy™ has been resolved and i can stop posting endless articles about it. Alas, that time is not yet. To smooth things over OMG! Ubuntu! reader […]
The new UbuntuOne Music Store is certain to be a standout feature in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS ‘Lucid Lynx’ when it’s released in April. But to date, all of the WIP screenshots and testing snapshot we’ve […]
Using Ubuntu 10.04 and want your window control buttons back on the right? Well here’s how! Firstly let me apologise for not posting this tip sooner – I keep getting e-mails asking about it too […]
I saw Ivanka Majic, Ubuntu’s design team leader, retweet the following plight by fellow design team member Michael Forrest earlier and decided to also post it here. Judging by the sheer amount of OS X […]
The default Ubuntu Light themes have been updated with an improved scrollbar. (Dig in, guys, as these themes will be updated a lot over the next few months). Our criticism of the “current” scrollbar was […]