Section: News

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Wingpanel – elementary’s slick new space-saving panel project

Wingpanel is a new 'space-saving top panel' created by, you've guessed it, the elementary team.

19 December 2010

Natty update puts window controls back in the panel, app menu changes

A new minor Ubuntu 11.04 updates.

18 December 2010
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New release of Lightweight image viewer Viewnior

Lightweight image viewer Viewnior – which reached number 5 on our 12 top applications of 2009 – has gained a host of new features in its first update in 9 months.

16 December 2010
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Creative suite for Linux: an update [updated]

An Adobe employee has urged Linux users wanting native Creative Suite applications for their OS to submit a 'Feature request directly' to the company's engineering team.

15 December 2010
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Humble Indie Bundle returns: pay what you want for 5 awesome games

The Humble Indie Bundle is back! Independent gaming company WolfireGames are once again letting you set the price for five of mutli-platform DRM-free games.

14 December 2010
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Flash alternative Lightspark 0.4.5 released

A new version of flash-alternative 'Lightspark' has been released.

14 December 2010
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LibreOffice Release Candidate 1 available

The first release candidate of office-suite LibreOffice is now available to download.

14 December 2010
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New look DockBarX hits PPA

DockBarX - the icon-only window switcher applet for GNOME panel - recently updated itself with a new look and some ace new features.

13 December 2010
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New theme promises seamless GTK apps in KDE

A new port of KDE's Oxygen theme that aims to provide seamless integration of Gtk/Gnome applications in KDE has been released.

13 December 2010
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Drag and drop close to landing in Unity

Just saw Kyle Baker tweet about this. Knowing so many readers are already helping test Ubuntu 11.04 the return of drag and drop ordering of launcher items can’t come soon enough for many…

12 December 2010
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Music player Clementine hits 0.6 release with features, features, features

After a successful week of bug fixes the latest version of Amarok 1.4 inspired music player Clementine is ready to download.

12 December 2010
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Wine 1.3.9 brings beginnings of ActiveX support

Another week and another Wine development release. What has version 1.3.9 spilt out over the tablecloth we call the desktop?

12 December 2010