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6 little thing in Ubuntu 10.04 that I love

1. Drag n’ Click You can now click and move a window from anywhere in the top part – both the metacity and the space next to the menu-bar are dragable. 2. Software Centre’s navigation […]

5 March 2010
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Rhythmbox Reimagined (Prepare to Wow)

Amongst all of the post regarding the new Ubuntu artwork we posted yesterday we featured a re-imagining of the new ‘light’ theme by Well he’s been keeping himself – and us – busy by turning […]

5 March 2010
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Ubuntu 10.04 Login Window Revealed

The GDM artwork for Ubuntu 10.04 has landed and it’s no great change. Essentially the same as the Karmic login window, the Lucid version swaps the background for the new default, uses Ubuntu-Mono-Login icon set […]

4 March 2010
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Ubuntu 10.04 "light" Themes Released [Download]

The Ubuntu 10.04 ‘light’ themes will be landing in Lucid updates in a few short hours but we’ve queue jumped the process to nab a sneaky peak. Do bear in mind that these are the […]

4 March 2010
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elementary theme gets updated with new metacity, etched panel, love for totem

Everyone’s favourite GTK+ theme ‘elementary’ has gained a new metacity and panel style in a new release today. Remember that new Elementary metacity we sneakily showed you a few weeks back? Well it’s been polished […]

4 March 2010
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Little Things That Matter: Rhythmbox Indicator Applet

The Rhythmbox indicator applet in Ubuntu 10.04 gained ‘now playing’ information in an update earlier today. As I waxed so lyrical about in my previous ‘Little things that matter’ post on the MessagingMenu in Lucid […]

4 March 2010
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Ubuntu Light Re-imagined (Already)

Most of us are chomping at the bit to get our knashers into the new Ubuntu 10.04 themes announced only yesterday. Despite them not having yet arrived the “remixes” have begun! Deviant Artist fibermarupok has […]

4 March 2010
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New Ubuntu Plymouth Theme Lands in Lucid

It’s non-stop today. In the last 30mins the shiny new Plymouth theme – revealed only yesterday – has landed in Ubuntu Alpha 3. More interesting to see will be the new look login window, which […]

4 March 2010
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Ubuntu 10.04 Default Wallpaper Revealed

The default wallpaper for Ubuntu 10.04 has been revealed — this is it: If you’re wondering why it’s named warty-final-ubuntu.png, the developers explain: – The wallpaper is named warty-final-ubuntu because we realised we can’t change […]

4 March 2010
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Sync Your iPhone/iPod Touch With Ubuntu 9.10

If you’ve got an iPhone or an iPod Touch you may routinely smash your head against it when trying to sync it with Ubuntu 9.10. Previous hack-arounds have required the patience of a saint and […]

4 March 2010
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Worried Ubuntu 10.04 will have left-hand side controls? You needn’t be

Dustin Kirkland posted some more screenshots of the forthcoming Ubuntu themes and they show the window controls back where most users feel they belong – the right-hand side. Panic alleviated. Picture credit: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2010/03/ubuntus-new-themes-and-byobu.html

4 March 2010
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Empathy Gets New Default theme for Ubuntu 10.04 (And it looks familiar…)

It’s the IM client everyone loves to hate but for all its perceived shortcomings Empathy remains a perfectly usable and roundly featured application – hence why it’s default! For Ubuntu 10.04 Empathy gains a new […]

3 March 2010