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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
Over a week ago we revealed that a big announcement regrading the re-branding of Ubuntu was imminent. That announcement has now been made – but even we didn’t expect it to be quite as big […]
gThumb is to be included in Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Edition as the default image editor F-Spot, the default image editor in regular Ubuntu, was removed from the UNE live-cd only a few days ago. The […]
Four new themes have been chosen for Lucid’s community-themes package. These themes – along with updates version of 4 old favourites – can be installed in Lucid using the following command: – sudo apt-get install […]
The third alpha release of new Ubuntu spin Lubuntu is now available to download. Among the features and changes new to Alpha 3 (i.e., since Alpha 2) are the following: – Chromium is now the […]
The UbuntuOne Music Store team have put a super helpful FAQ online answering many questions you’ve probably had about the impending Ubuntu 10.04 addition. What regions of the world will be able to purchase songs? […]
The games selection in Ubuntu underwent a rethink for Ubuntu 10.04. Out are the masses of endless games no-one uses and in are a intelligently picked handful that people do. Gbrainy Once of the new […]
The third and final Alpha of the Ubuntu 10.04 'Lucid Lynx' development cycle has been released — but what changes can you expect to find?
The option to re-enable missing menu icons in GNOME menus has been removed from the version of GNOME to be included in Ubuntu 10.04. Why? Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala – with its updated version of […]
Two more applications have been added to the ‘Featured’ section of the Ubuntu Software Centre in Ubuntu 10.04. 3D creation tool Blender and publication software Scribus join graphics favourite The GIMP and lightweight word processor […]
Word has reached my ears that tomorrow, 25th February, at around 18:00 UTC, a big announcement concerning the branding of Ubuntu will be made. Edit: The announcement has been postponed thanks to our big mouths, […]
A new theme has been added to the Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx theme proposals titled ‘Sorbet‘. Remember that these proposals are vying for a place on a default install/community themes package but not as the […]