Unity 5.4 has landed in Ubuntu 12.04 ‘Precise Pangolin’. Alongside a tonne of performance, stability and bug fixes come a handful of minor visual changes and features. New in Unity 5.4 The new Unity Video Lens, which we revealed news of yesterday, joins the ranks of default lenses shipped in Precise. Pulled in buy the Unity 5.4 update, [...]
The Unity launcher is a shelf for managing and launching our favourite applications. But on smaller screens, such as those on netbooks, it’s easy for it to become so stacked full of pinned and running apps that things become slightly unmanageable. If you find that that’s the case for you then give one of these ‘themed’ [...]
Unity 5.2 has arrived in Ubuntu 12.0, a day after the release of alpha 2. Unity 5.2 has under gone rigorously testing over the past weeks or so ahead of its deposit in Ubuntu 12.04. Along with much improved multi-monitor support come a handful of other notable changes. Holding down the ‘Super’ key displays a Keyboard shortcut overlay on [...]
As the editor of an Ubuntu-based website it’s no surprise that I am continually having to add, edit and remove packages and repositories from my install. In theory Ubuntu’s Software Center should be the only tool I need to do any of this; the Software Center can install and remove apps, has a menu entry [...]
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 [...]
