News, tips and features on the Unity desktop environment, the default shell in Ubuntu.
Further to yesterday's post on the 'immovable Unity launcher' I just thought I'd share this as well to help allay a few fears on an annoyance many of you have expressed issue with...
Unity will be Ubuntu 11.04's new desktop environment - but you may just see it popping up in other non-Ubuntu derived distributions too - including Fedora.
Following on from the quick run-downs of Desktop Unity we've featured recently, a number of commenters have asked whether the Unity bar will be moveable - e.g. putting on the bottom like a traditional 'dock' or over to the right. The answer is no.
The first alpha of the Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal development cycle has been released.
Desktop Unity became the default Desktop Environment in Ubuntu 11.04 recently. Though its quite a bit buggy, it does look good!
Seif Lotfy is back hacking on the new Unity People Place. Updating his blog he shares news that Folks and Zeitgeist now ‘play along’ allowing for easy sorting of results using Zeitgeist (Favourites, Recent, etc.) […]
In my second day of hacking Unity Place for people I managed to get chat activity from Zeitgeist, get contacts from folks and create sections and groups and assign them results. Read on for more.
Seif Lotfy has posted a 'in progress' screenshot of a new 'People' place for Ubuntu Unity.
Compiz-based Unity will not see a backport for Maverick users to test.
Everyones favourite compositing window manager Compiz released an update to their unstable 0.9-branch - 0.9.2. - a few weeks back. Here's how to install it from a PPA.
Ubuntu’s Jorge Castro has just tweeted that the Unity/Compiz pre-alpha is now available for early Natty users to test via PPA. More information can be found @ http://bit.ly/donNSi and the PPA ityself – whic is […]
And so it begins! The Compiz-based version of Unity - due to land as the default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 - opens up for development. A PPA for Ubuntu 10.10 users to install and test from is due to follow tomorrow.