By Benjamin Humphrey, Ubuntu Manual Team leader. UPDATE: I’ve added in “Fixed!” where things are fixed, and “Probably won’t be changed” where it’s more than likely nothing will be changed. In this post I’m going […]
Did you ever get annoyed by the restart/logout/shutdown countdown timers that presented themselves in previous Ubuntu releases? They looked like this: – They were lacking in information – particularly for newer users who might not […]
The Ubuntu 10.04 Live CD has ditched the boring ‘black on white text’ menu approach and instead delivers up a GUI menu. Whilst we’re still 2 months away from the final installer design, here’s a […]
I do envision a time when the Window Button Controversy™ has been resolved and i can stop posting endless articles about it. Alas, that time is not yet. To smooth things over OMG! Ubuntu! reader […]
The Messaging Menu applet in Ubuntu 10.04 now refers to the default applications contained within using descriptive titles divided in sections rather than the application name. It’s believed that retitled the menu entries will better […]
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 […]