Earlier today we ran down five of our favourite themes for GNOME Shell. Chances are you'll want to try a few of those themes out on your desktop - but how to do it? Providing you're using Ubuntu 11.10 and GNOME-Shell it's actually quite simple...
One of the great things about GNOME Shell is that it’s comprehensibly themeable – from the top panel and applet menus to the awesome on-screen keyboard. Below are five are five of my top GNOME Shell […]
Browsing your movie files could soon become a lot easier in Ubuntu. A new 'Movie scope' in development for Ubuntu's Unity File Lens aims to enhance browsing your locally available video files by adding searchable movie-related meta-data.
The online Linux game download store Gameolith have launched two new sites for European and UK customers to purchase games in their own currencies.
An alpha release of Mint Sprint - a new system font for Linux Mint - has been made available for download.
I'm currently addicted to various Boggle-style word games available via the Android market. Needing to 'get a fix' when on Ubuntu at my desk I headed into the Ubuntu Software Centre to see if I could find something similar.
Ubuntu 11.10 has been out for little while now, so chances are many of you have upgraded. If you choose to upgrade via Update Manager (that is you saw the prompt below and clicked ‘Yes, […]
Though for many users it is likely comforting to know that use of the terminal can be largely, if not entirely avoided with today's crop of shiny Linux distributions, there are those among the community who love the raw utility of the command-line. Others still find they need the Linux terminal to effectively accomplish certain tasks.
Next April’s release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS will provide desktop users with five years of support and maintenance releases Canonical have announced. Previous ‘Long Term Support’ releases provided 3 years of support for desktop users, […]
(This is a guest post from Ubuntu developer and Canonical employee Daniel Holbach, which was originally posted here.) Ubuntu Development Update It is always an exciting time when a new release opens. As a developer […]
As the editor of an online Ubuntu website it'd be fair to surmise that i'm fairly committed to the Ubuntu project. But committed enough to get the Ubuntu logo tattooed on to my arm?
After Oneiric's release last week I had the chance to sit down with Neil Patel, Unity's Technical Lead, to talk about how he felt the Oneiric cycle went and to get his thoughts on Precise Pangolin 12.04. Neil has been working for Canonical for a couple of years, and was previously heavily involved in the original Netbook Remix Launcher which was superseded by Unity originally in Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10. As the Technical Lead for Unity, he oversees a lot of the development on the new shell for Ubuntu. Neil is the guy you go to with your questions about the development of Unity, and that's exactly what we did when I sat down for an interview with him last week. Make the jump for the full interview.
If you've played around with GNOME Shell and its default theme then there's a good chance that when watching a video or viewing a photo you've seen the very swish dark variant. If you like the look of the 'dark' version of GNOME 3's default Adwaita theme, and want to use it as your system theme, then you're in luck: a wily Chilean user by the name of A. Felipe has modified Adwaita so as to use the 'dark' version as default.
Ubuntu 12.04 will focus on 'polish, performance and predictability' according to Ubuntu's founder Mark Shuttleworth.
How old do you think Ubuntu is? With 15 releases under its belt, and another on the way, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was a lot older than it actually is! But exactly 7 years ago today Mark Shuttleworth and his team of 'warm-hearted Warthogs' announced the first release of Ubuntu.
The organizers behind Linux.conf.au 2012 - which is hosted in Ballarat, Australia in January next year - have announced the second keynote speaker as Bruce Perens. Perens released his first Free Software program, Electric Fence, in 1987. He is also creator of Busybox, which has spawned its own development community and is part of many consumer devices.
Users of Ubuntu's Unity 2D desktop - the lighter, less resource hungry version of Unity - might wish to tweak certain part of their desktop - such as when or how the Launcher hides. '2D-Desktop Settings' is a small third-party tool that provides users with a simple way to do just that
Full-screen distraction free writing app 'Focus Writer' has been updated. The application, which sports custom-themes, configurable toolbars and a daily goal tracker amongst its various features, has now gained basic support for the opening and saving of .Odt files (the file format most commonly used by LibreOffice).