Unity is said to make your workflow faster and easier. But is that true? Ubuntu contributor Jo-Erlend Schinstad decided to see how much time he would save using Unity compared to Gnome Panel (Classic) when performing a set of simple tasks.
The weekend just past I fell in love with a desktop application - for Windows. The object of my affections? Pokki.
We like covering spots of ‘Ubuntu in the wild’ – but even more so when it crops up in places you wouldn’t always expect. Today’s nod is from an article on the Microsoft-backed “Build New […]
Online play is to be added to the Linux distro management simulation game ‘Linux Tycoon’. “In the coming days you’ll be able to compete against other Linux Distros around the world, in real-time,” the developer, Bryan […]
Music streaming service Spotify has today launched a new feature for bloggers, website owners, and any one with a plot of land on the web – the Spotify Play Button. The Spotify Play Button lets […]
XBMC Eden, the latest release of the popular media centre app, will be available to install in Ubuntu 12.04 through the Ubuntu Software Centre - no additional PPAs necessary. This marks the first time that the package is available in Ubuntu without the need for additional PPAs or repositories.
Kubuntu has found a new funding partner in the form of Blue Systems. The KDE-flavoured Ubuntu spin has been sponsored financially by Canonical until now. However, as we reported back in Feburary, this funding will cease at the end of the 12.04 development cycle.
"I want to minimise apps to the Unity launcher by clicking on them." Well the patched version of Unity that lets you do just that is now available to install in Ubuntu 11.10.
Today marks the end of support for Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat. Released in October of 2010, Ubuntu 10.10 was a notable release. It was the first release to ship with Unity (in the then-existing Netbook edition), introduced Shotwell as Ubuntu's default photo manager, and brought a refined installer with new check screens and 3rd party software options.
A new GNOME extension aims to bring Unity Dash-like features to the GNOME Shell desktop. "I love GNOME Shell but miss the application categories from Gnome 2, dislike the visual interruption when searching for an application and don't use the overview to manage any of my windows," the developer of the extension, Zac Barton, told us. The result of his work is 'Launchy'.
Linux Blackberry owners may have been frustrated by the lack of desktop management tool. And that's largely the fault of RIM, the makers of popular smartphone. For whilst they provide dedicated desktop clients for managing the phone under Windows and OS X they provide nothing for use on Linux. So it falls to the Linux community to provide solutions. And the most thorough of these comes in the shape of LinBerry - a dedicated desktop manager for Blackberry that's currently in beta.
So you want to change the size of the icons on the Unity-2D launcher? We've previously looked at a way of achieving this, but this involved the manual editing of system files - something that scared a lot of people away from finally having a solution to oversized launcher icons. Well, at least until now.