Although people look for the big show-stopping killer-improvements when a new release of Ubuntu rolls around I find that it can be the small things which make the biggest difference. During the Lucid development cycle […]
I wake up (rather late) to some awesome, awesome news: Ubuntu is getting a brand new theme. In an YouTube interview with the Dell “vlog” recorded just yesterday Mark Shuttleworth revealed that a brand spanking […]
We deduced (via some flawed logic and some stray pixels) that it would be 7Digital powering the Ubuntu Music Store back in November and it now seems that we weren’t wrong! Blogger Popey posted up […]
Transmission is my preferred torrent client so I’m pretty stoked to see it not only get indicator applet support in Lucid but also a shiny new icon too! Transmission 1.90 The 1.90 series of the […]
A few small-ish updates to the Software centre just landed in Lucid – but ones that hint at much greater things to come. Featured First up is a new ‘section’ called ‘Featured’ accessible from the […]
Some updates to the default Humanity icon theme just landed in Lucid including some shiny new icons for Rhythmbox, the MeMenu/status, battery and trash bin, amongst others. I almost feel like saying “Spoilers below”. Do […]
The volume ‘applet’ in Ubuntu will become an ‘indicator’ applet in Lucid. That’s more info that you really need to know. What’s important is that it looks hella sexy: – For comparisons sake here’s […]
These Lucid theme proposals are coming in thick and fast. Today saw the addition of ‘X-IV‘ (10.04 in Roman numerals) a ‘Human Deluxe’ theme that works exceptionally well with the Homosapien or Lucidty metacities. “The […]
Yahoo! is the new default search engine in Firefox in Ubuntu 10.04. As with every release the firefox “start page” is redesigned, with the switch to a new search provider this change is even more […]
Empathy in Lucid will have a pre-configured option for adding a Facebook Chat account thanks to Facebook opening up their Facebook Chat protocol earlier this week. Chatting to your Facebook contacts via most multi-protocol clients […]
The community outcry over the removal of OpenOffice from Ubuntu Netbook Edition has seen developers reaching for a rethink over the controversial decision. The first reversal earlier this week that saw AbiWord and GNUMeric step […]
You know the drill by now… The following are proposed themes for inclusion in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. Lumus One aspect where this theme stands out is that it’s not dark AND it’s not a […]