News, tips and features on the Unity desktop environment, the default shell in Ubuntu.
Ubuntu's Jorge O. Castro drops by with another weekly bite-sized bug report on Unity in Ubuntu 11.04.
The Unity Launcher may, after all, end up with a few user-adjustable settings. A recent Unity launcher 'hack' by Andrea Azzarone allows icons on the Unity launcher to re-sized. By dragging a simple slider within Unity's CCSM settings page icons can be made as small as 32px or as big as 64px.
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Serial designer - and perennial OMG! favourite - BigRZA has begun a work-in-progress theme for panel applet 'DockBarX' that aims to admirably ape the look and feel of Ubuntu 11.04's Unity launcher, which is itself a work in progress. The video below shows it in action.
Ubuntu 11.04 will, in an update later today, add theme support for Unity's top panel.
This is the first guest post from Jorge O. Castro, External Developer Relations Liaison, who will be posting Unity updates over the coming weeks Welcome to the Unity bitesize extravaganza. First off, if you're interested in past progress reports I have them on my blog. However the guys decided that it might be "ace" for me to just tell you guys directly, so here we go.
Another weekend has passed, so how's Natty looking so far? We pick out some select highlights from updates landed during the last few days.
Fans and followers of Unity 2D - the less hardware intensive Qt-using version of Unity currently in development - may be pleased to see that 'workspaces' have arrived in the latest builds. Take a peek at how it looks in this short video.
The Unity Launcher API, which provides overlay badges, progress bars and quick lists to application launchers, now has a detailed Wiki page for developers to refer to.
Neat things about Unity #457: Intelligent launchers.
It may not be getting Unity nor the attention its purple/orange brother is receiving, but that doesn't mean nothing is interesting happening with Kubuntu. Read on to find out!
The initial drop of Ubuntu 11.04's Unity Application places and File places have landed today.
It's all ago in Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha land this week: from the Ubuntu One Control Panel to Unity's Dash - a lot of apps are receiving a lot of updates. Here we look over some of the more apparent changes changed by the, er, changes...
Bye bye inelegant hacks to achieve 'Aero snap' style window management in Ubuntu, and hello Unity + Compiz with it's very own 'edge snap' plugin. Watch it in action inside.
Yesterday I got a chance to sit down for an interview over lunch with one of the original founders of Ubuntu: ex-GNOME Release Manager and past Canonical employee Jeff Waugh.
Welcome news for Ubuntu 11.04 alphas testers partial to non-default icon sets: Unity's launcher now adheres to your chosen icon set.
Just in, and an update to the Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha has brought with it the first iteration of what will soon blossom into Unity’s long-awaited Dash revamp.
Unity’s launcher could get some added oomph with the release of a new Launcher API for developers to use. When asked whether Unity’s launcher could allow for "…the installation of the Gmail Docky Docket in […]
Boy we've got something exciting for you today - a full length exclusive interview with Unity's Technical Lead and Canonical DX Team Member Neil Patel. In this lengthy interview, Neil explains everything from how Unity will work on large screens to how he feels Ubuntu is going and why he started working for Canonical. It's a total must read for anyone even remotely interested in the future of Ubuntu, so click through for the full scoop!