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Nautilus’s revamped ‘places’ sidebar

As part of Nautilus’s ongoing revamp – which will see Zeitgesit integration, a beautiful new breadcrumb path-bar & the long-overdue ‘undo’ feature amongst other things – a newly redesigned Places sidebar has been committed as ‘fixed’ in the GNOME […]

25 August 2010
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Dropbox icons now respect your global theme (no more manually replacing them!)

Customizers rejoice: the latest experimental build of Dropbox now respects your installed icon set. This means users no longer need to manually replace them with theme-akin replacements. “We have changed the names of our tray icons […]

25 August 2010
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Fix the Brasero copy/burn error

As someone sans a working DVD drive let alone something to burn or copy I have been largely unaware of a bug plaguing Brasero users during the last few releases: it fails to copy audio and data CD’s and, […]

25 August 2010
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Humanity icons get updated

With the UI and feature freeze just about to fall into place for Ubuntu 10.10 a few subtle changes to the default ‘Humanity’ icon set have landed – and just in time! Unlike previous releases and/or updates […]

25 August 2010
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OMG! 5! – Five Monochrome App Icons

There’s nothing worse than an application sitting in the notification area of your system panel and sticking out like a sore thumb on the cohesive hand of your desktop. Or something more poetic. Below sit […]

25 August 2010
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Indicator-Monitor puts system stressing process in plain sight

Another day and another indicator applet to share word of. Today we’re looking rather more informative than time-saving – a system process monitor. ‘System load indicator’ monitors yours running processes CPU, RAM and disc I/O […]

25 August 2010
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Finally – A Chrome theme for Elegant GNOME!

Chrome/ium fans using the Elegant GNOME theme/script pack we featured yesterday can rejoice! A very ace dude by the name of JurgenWagen has created an Elegant-matching Chrome/ium theme that is just the thing for those […]

25 August 2010
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Ubuntu fixes 100 paper-cuts for Maverick – Already!

A short, sharp and congratulatory post right now as news as reached my ear that  the100 paper cuts initiative for Maverick has hit its goal with a full, fat round 100 ‘cuts’ fixed and released. […]

24 August 2010
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Much coveted MSN VoIP support lands

The papyon and telepathy-butterfly elements which power Empathy’s support for MSN has finally landed support for the p2pv2 protocol and enabled VoIP support. Since the latest Beta of the official Microsoft MSN Messenger Live only […]

24 August 2010
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GNOME Activity Journal 0.5.0 adds ‘experimental’ toolbar

The GAJ & Zeitgeist teams have announced the 0.5.0 development release of  GNOME Activity Journal – the user-friendly frontend for finding out ‘when’ you did a certain activity/file edit etc  rather than ‘where’.

24 August 2010
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F-Spot 0.8.x is going to be LTS

Ever the hard worker F-Spot maintainer Ruben Vermeersch announced on IRC that he intends to continue the 0.8 branch of F-Spot as an LTS series. Furthermore as of yet unannounced major changes are coming in […]

24 August 2010
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Meerkat’s Software Centre gets a background…

Don’t ever say we no longer keep you up-to-date with the trivial: The Ubuntu Software Centre in Ubuntu 10.10 now has a background! Look nice, non? The background is also displayed when viewing more information […]

24 August 2010