News, tips and features on the Unity desktop environment, the default shell in Ubuntu.
In such a short time of development, improvements in speed, aesthetics, usability and more have come to life in the Compiz version of Unity. But what about customization?
From now until release it's fix fix fix on the Unity team, all day every day. Dylan McCall's landed his first code contribution to Unity, though he is no stranger to contributing to Ubuntu, most people know him as the person who maintains the installer slideshow.
Natty only: Remember that neat AskUbuntu lens we mentioned a few days back? Interested parties will be pleased to hear that it's now available to install via the ease of a PPA.
It seems everyone and their pet parrot has an opinion on what Ubuntu's new Unity interface could be doing better right now. But Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff did more than mock-up, moan or migrate to a different Shell entirely when "driven nuts" by Unity's 'inconsistent launcher-duplicating Dash': he created a proof-of-concept implementation of his desired 'old school gnome-menu-like Dash'.
Ubuntu's Jorge Castro talked about how interested folks can build their own 'Places' for Unity, but today we've learnt word of Unity Lense that's in development.
Another Thursday and another update to Ubuntu 11.04 desktop shell Unity. What's new today? Eyes down for a gander at the goodies...
Unity is Ubuntu's innovative new user interface, designed to catapult Ubuntu into the revolution of contextual search, launchers and social integration. The unique design provides an enticing alternative to the likes of Windows and OS X. But could Unity be better?
In this Unity Bitesize Bug Report, Jorge introduces new contributor Anrea Azzarone as well as covering a few new Unity updates and of course letting everyone know how you can get involved! Hit up the link for the juicy details...
Yesterday Benjamin showed off some slick conceptual Unity behaviour mock-ups. Today some of those ideas presented in those exist in code thanks, once again, to the work of Andrea Azzarone.
David Reichling has created a bunch of neat mockups of how Unity should behave, most notably around the Launcher and Dash button. He shared his ideas with me via Twitter, and I thought they were so cool I'd have to publish them on here.
Alt+F2 returns to Unity - with some visual kick.
Thunderbird fans should flap with joy: the e-mail app is getting some Unity launcher love courtesy of Mozilla Messaging's Mike Conley.