Popular lightweight music player 'DeaDBeeF' recently launched an Android version. Is it much cop? I find out...
For Ubuntu 11.04 we made an effort to make Unity easy to contribute to, so that anyone who wanted to participate could help out and help drive the development of Unity forward. During UDS in Budapest, Hungary, we had a session on how we're going to improve this program. As luck would have it this was a video'ed session, and what you'll read in this post is a result of that session and some other feedback from people.
It's a new week, but I'm behind. Here are a couple of things I never got around to mentioning last week...
What's been happening in the Zeitgeist project of late? Let's take a quick look...
A bug in panel-bound RSS applet 'Feed Indicator' which saw feed items open in a users browser just by hovering over them has been fixed in its most recent update released this weekend.
One of the many criticisms that the Ubuntu Software Centre has come under since its launch is how difficult it's been to get paid, commercial applications submitted for inclusion in the Paid Apps section. Ever since we released Volley Brawl a couple of months ago, I've had numerous emails from publishers and developers asking me "how on earth did you do that?! We've been trying to contact Canonical for months now to get [game] into the Software Center to no avail." Thankfully it's a problem Canonical are all to aware of, so they've been working on a Developer Portal similar to that of the Android Market or iOS App Store. Developers or publishers can submit their app, add a title, description, price, category and more.
LibreOffice 3.4, the 'second major release' of the free office suite from The Document Foundation, has been released this afternoon.
The first alpha release of the Ubuntu 11.10 development cycle is now available for developers, testers and bug-hunters to download.
A new official Ubuntu YouTube channel has popped up - but what is it for?
A new beta release of screenshot application 'Lookit' has been made available for testing, adding in some rather nifty new Unity features...
A new release of GNOME video editor 'PiTiVi' has been made available and sees the oft-cited "basic video editor" gain some impressive new audio and video effects, as well as interface improvements and bug fixes.
A new bug fix release of Ubuntu Tweak that offers more dependable purging of PPAs has been released.