Last weeks GUADEC was less like a developers conference and more like a presidential campaign rally! The enthusiasm, positivity and general feedback that it has garnered is incredible but amongst the many interesting things propositioned […]
Installed, hacked and tweaked Ubuntu a bit too much? Wish there was a glowing red ‘reset’ button you could press? Well there sort of it… Reset GNOME defaults in Ubuntu Restoring the default GNOME settings […]
The “new” style GNOME Shell mock-up presented at last weeks Guadec conference now comes with added motion! The following video demos the intended motion-design of the layout so whilst what you see below is not […]
It didn't take me long to cave in and buy some of the (very cheap) new Ubuntu sticker sets we mentioned a few days ago. Admittedly this was, in part, because I spied that the sheets contained some neat circular Ubuntu logo stickers that seemed to be an appropriate size to cover the Windows key on my keyboard.
The Ubuntu Forum will be getting its official visual upgrade sometime later this year but in the mean time, if the happening hub of all things Ubuntu is wearing weary on your eyes, give it a […]
Mark Shuttleworth has apologised “unreservedly to all offended” for his “poor choice of language” during LinuxCon 2009 during which a comment made by the Ubuntu founder was deemed to be sexist by many members of […]
We love the Amarok 1.4 inspired music player Clementine here at OMG! towers so we’re stoked to learn of a newly created dev-build PPA for the bold and the beautiful to make use of. Dev […]
There are plenty of great icon themes available for GNOME users to brighten their desktops up with but how many of those are truly awesome? Faenza, by ~tiheum – best known for his Equinox themes […]
Elementary users longing for some true Elementary-inspired Dropbox icons to use with the upcoming 0.8 release of the file-syncing application may wish to try the following icons, created by rugby471.Whilst we’ve featured many replacement icon […]
During the Lucid cycle default Ubuntu file-manager Nautilus added a thick white border around the display of file thumbnails. At the time this was considered an improvement by most. Several months on and, well, many […]
A few notable updates landed in the latest update of Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha today. Meerkat’s new Sound Menu – seemingly more divisive than Jedward – received some attention. The seeker/scrubber now works (pretty much) as it should and […]
Dave Neary has posted the results of the GNOME census which has been looking at contributions to GNOME, who develops what, where it's coming from and who's been doing it over the last two years. The report has revealed that most of the upstream commits to GNOME are from people in their spare time with over 70% of respondents listing themselves as volunteers.