If the default GTK themes supplied with Ubuntu 11.04 aren't to your taste 'Unity Impression', a new GTK theme designed specifically with Ubuntu's Unity interface in mind, is well worth a try out. Download link and choice-pictures inside.
It's the beginning of yet another cycle of bug fixing, squashing, smashing and thrashing! The One Hundred Papercuts Project is back for the Oneiric cycle, with lots of tiny and trivial bugs, a.k.a Papercuts, waiting to be fixed by everyday people like yourself. Make the jump to find out how you can help.
For the insanely organized amongst you there are times you may wish to run more than one instance of the same program - but on a separate workspace. If you open an application in workspace A, then move to workspace B and click that application's icon in the Unity launcher, you'll be jumped back to workspace A. Click through to find out how easy it is to create a new instance, instead of being pushed back to the current one.
Little-known Italian hardware manufacturer Ekoore have announced two new tablet computers running Ubuntu 11.04, and a third running Android. Apparently named after programming languages, the Ekoore Perl has an 11.6" 1366 x 768 screen, and the Python has a 10" screen. The former measures in at 0.55" thick and the latter at 0.62" making for a fairly comfortable - although slightly bulky - size. For comparison, the Apple iPad 2 is 0.34" thick. As for the guts inside, the tablets appear to be little more than a stripped down netbook. Make the jump for more details and pricing.
Update: Facebook has since restored access for the KDE applications and plugins, as well as re-adding the missing photos. Apparently the removal was a mistake caused by one of Facebook's automated systems. Facebook has banned KDE applications from uploading pictures to user profiles, deleting pictures that have already been uploaded using KDE apps in the process.
Conversation-style e-mail display, like that found in GMail, is heading to Postler - and plans on looking sexy in the process. Initial work on conversation threads - which groups sequential e-mails from the same 'conversation' - is already present in the development builds of Postler.
In the latest (and seemingly final) batch of documents dumped on The Pirate Bay by computer hacker outfit 'LulzSec', a familiar looking operating system can be seen in use.
Open-source "Nvidia Optimus" graphics switching tool 'Bumblebee has a PPA for easy installation in Ubuntu.
Dhananjay Sathe sent in news of an application he's been working on that will be of use to those running GNOME 3 - a wallpaper slideshow tool.
A Release Candidate build of Opera 11.50, the next version of Opera Software's web browser, is now available to download.
Bored? Spend $2.99 on an ace space shoot 'em up. Top down arcade shooter Steel Storm: Burning Retribution is on sale in the Ubuntu Software, available to purchase for just $2.99. The sale price is valid from June 23rd until July 5th after which the game rises to $10.
Advanced system packaging tool 'Synaptic Package Manager' has been dropped from the latest builds of Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot.