Ubuntu’s Unity interface made a brief appearance in a popular Japanese ‘children’s’ show last weekend. ‘Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters‘ – the latest team in the 36-year strong Super Sentai franchise – can clearly be seen to be running a customised version of Ubuntu Unity desktop on their laptop. Open-source mail-client Evolution is also on show, as is the [...]
Annnnnnd the Ubuntu Developer Summit is over for another 6 months. Five days, 40 hours, lots of beer, frivolity and discussion have lead to a set of potential plans for the Ubuntu 12.10 release. Due to the nature of development not everything intended to happen will. But, pessimism aside, the following list of proposals do all on [...]
The Wikipedia lens for Ubuntu’s Unity dash we wrote about several days back has been updated. Visually the Lens now looks neater, sporting article snippets and thumbnails (where applicable) thanks to use of the ‘card view’ layout available to developers. Multi-lingual users still have no way to specify the Wikipedia locale used by the lens (it currently [...]
The removal of the ‘Dodge’ feature from Unity’s launcher in Ubuntu 12.04 bugged a lot of people. But rather than sit and complain about not having it a couple of Ubuntu users have brought it back by forking Unity, adding some patches and stuffing the resulting version into a PPA for easy installation. Re-Enable Unity Dodge I don’t [...]
The Unity Dash sports a thick grey border by default – a distinctive frame that helps highlight the Dash from that underneath. But not everyone is a fan. If you’re one of them and would prefer the Dash to use a thinner, sleeker border then you’re in luck… Thinner Dash Border Credit for this ‘hack’ [...]
