Unity 5.8 landed in Ubuntu 12.04 this weekend – but what’s new and what’s improved? Let’s take a quick gander…
The Music Lens has added support for Rhythmbox:
The Dash now tells you when it can’t find a file, app or folder related to a search: –
The HUD now adapts to your Launcher auto-hide and icon-size settings: –
Calling the HUD also uses a slightly slicker animation: –
An initial version of Ubuntu Software Center/Unity Launcher integration appears in this release. The ‘full version’, as demoed below, is expected to arrive in Unity 5.10.
Multi-Monitor Improvements
Following our recent poll run in tandem with the Ubuntu Design Team on how best to deploy the Unity Launcher on multi-monitor screens, a new option has been added to the Displays settings pane that lets you choose whether a launcher is shown on screen or all.
Also making its debut is a toggle for enabling/disabling ‘Sticky Edges’ for the Launcher on multi-monitor set-ups.
Misc Changes
Other changes appearing in this release include: –
- Minor tweaks to UI of Dash (alignments, spacing, etc)
- Improved ‘chameleonic’ colouring of items, including NotifyOSD bubbles
- ‘Arrow’ keys navigation of Alt+Tab
- Performance improvements
- Bug fixes
