It’s somewhat apt that Ubuntu’s ‘Lenses’ feature has brought Unity into clearer focus for many of its initial critics. The search-orientated display windows – called ‘Lenses’ – make finding specific files, apps or information easy to do thanks to their tuned ‘search backends’ – called Scopes’. Below are 10 of the best Lenses and Scopes available [...]
Another day and another set of Unity mock-ups. This time from the hand of Ubuntu user staticd, who wonders whether the position of the ‘Lens bar’ – which appears at the bottom of the Dash in Ubuntu 11.10 – could be better placed - could be better placed. I think they could be. Having to ‘travel’ to the [...]
This is a guest post from Ahmed Kamal and Jorge O. Castro, who will be posting Unity updates over the coming weeks (Original Post) The roll up to Beta two begins as the archive starts to get more and more frozen with Beta 2 Freeze tomorrow. We have one major announcement for the week, Neil [...]
Following on from recent posts covering neat new ‘Lenses’ for Unity – visually slick ways to access information via the Ubuntu 11.04 desktop – I thought it time for a quick overview of the most interesting ones currently in development. Ubuntu One Music Store Lens Searching for music from the Dash or the lens itself [...]
