News, tips and features on the Unity desktop environment, the default shell in Ubuntu.
This tip is solely for Ubuntu 11.04 testers, but it's a dozy worth sharing.
Another week and another round-up of the latest Unity fixes, patches and superstars.
This is a guest post from Jorge O. Castro, External Developer Relations Liaison, who will be posting Unity updates over the coming weeks. Unity is made up of different parts. I’m not going to go […]
Ubuntu's Jorge O. Castro drops by with some slick new shots of Ubuntu 11.04's Alpha 3's improved Dash as well as a round-up of bite-sized bitesize bug news.
The following small but noteworthy changes landed in yesterdays update to Unity in Ubuntu 11.04. You won't see anything too startling but where you will find is solid, dependable progress in evidence.
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.