Unity Desktop

This is the big one. With work only starting on Desktop Unity in October it’s impressive seeing the amount of progress made in such little time.

• changing the icon theme will also change the icons in the Unity launcher (“dock”) – this wasn’t working in 10.10. Unfortunately the icons only change after a log out and I can’t do that and keep recording (and if I disable and re-enable Unity, it crashes).
• the number of open windows is indicated by dots under the icon on the Unity Launcher. Clicking an icon for an application that has more then one window open will trigger an expose effect for the windows
• right now, clicking the Ubuntu logo will launch Nautilus (applications folder) instead of Dash (about a week ago, this button did nothing). This should change in Alpha 2.

The switch to Compiz from Mutter was certainly a good decision, not only does Unity now feel much more responsive it also looks very, very good.

The panel can also be set to auto-hide and ‘float’.

Ubuntu 11.04 uses Unity by default, however if your graphics card is not supported, it falls back to the classic Gnome look:

However, even if you graphic card supports Unity, you can still login to the classic Gnome because there are 2 sessions you can choose from in GDM: Ubuntu desktop will run Unity (if supported by your hardware) and Ubuntu Classic which is the old Gnome look that supports all hardware and video drivers (which were previously supported by Ubuntu).

 

Ubuntu ‘Classic’ Desktop

If, for whatever reason, you want/need to revert to the traditional Ubuntu desktop just select ‘Ubuntu Classic Desktop’ from the session menu before logging in.

Sound menu changes

The Ubuntu Sound Menu has had a few minor changes already including new player control buttons and an ‘indented’ cover art frame.

 

Indicator-datetime is back

My favourite indicator is back – Indicator-Datetime! I’ve absolutely no logical/sane reason as to why I love it so much but it’s there, rocking out with its calendar widget…

Panel applets

I suppose the biggest change most users would recoil in horror at when using the Alpha is the redaction of traditional panel applets; applications using the old system tray are now at a loss.

Network Manager

The Network Manager applet now wears ‘indicator’ clothes. It feels feeble to say that this makes a huge difference to the way the desktop ‘feels’ but it really does.

 

Download Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Alpha 1

(for testing purposes only!)

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LibreOffice is drived by the same community, developing the OpenOffice - The Document Fondation – The one that will guide and developing the new fork of OOo.

Linux, Mac and Windows users, get it from here: download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/testing/3.3.0-beta2/

Optionally all *.DEB users can add this repo: download.tuxfamily.org/gericom/README.html and install it from there, and be sure you will be all up to date.

This versions comes with many localizations, not included in the repo!

PS: Debian, Ubuntu, Mint and others deb-based users should remove the old packages first and then install the new ones!

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Get all the software you need

The Ubuntu Software Centre gives you instant access to thousands of open-source and carefully selected free applications. And now you can buy apps too. Browse software in categories including: education, games, sound and video, graphics, programming and office. All the applications are easy to find, easy to install and easy to buy.

Featured applications from the Ubuntu Software Centre:

Blender – the world renowned tool for creating 3d artwork, animations and games.

Frozen Bubble – Play solo or join you friends in this addictive game as you try to burst the bubbles before they reach the bottom.

Cheese! – Have fun with your web cam. Use this simple app to take pictures, create special effects and share your photos with your friends.

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Up to another user request for screensaver, showing the weather forecast for the current city,

I decided to run and that request. So here it’s first appearing!

IMPORTANT: The current weather is set to Burgas, Bulgaria, so if you want to change it

go to http://www.rssweather.com/dir find your city and copy and paste the RSS URL into

/usr/lib/xscreensaver/weather like root!

sudo gedit /usr/lib/xscreensaver/weather and replace the RSS URL with your one!

Grab it while it’s hot

Also by adding my repository: sudo apt-get install weather-gl

PS: I’ll be glad if someone tell me how to make the degree sign ° look normal

You can try it by adding my repo into your sources.list by reading this howto and then executing in the terminal:

sudo apt-get install simple-clock-gl

or you can DOWNLOAD it to your desktop without touching your sources.list and then test it

There are few in this package, as anyone can modify gltext.desktop file to his needs. And as anyone loves screenshots here are they:

simple clock, colored, with simple date, with full date, and wired.

If you want to modify it and make your version, just edit the file

/usr/share/applications/screensavers/glsimplyclock.desktop

by changing “%X” at line #6 to something else like

Exec=gltext -root -front -text ‘your text here\n %l:%M:%S %p’

You can find more at XScreenSaver manual

Exec=gltext -root -text “%X” -no-spin

New installer slideshow

Ubuntu Font Family

The new Ubuntu font is now shipped with Ubuntu (all the flavors) but has not been set as the default font, at least not for now. You can see the new font throughout all the screenshots in this post, but here is also a larger screenshot:

Canonical are working with SFLC and SIL on a revision of the OFL with the intent of adopting that revision for a future version of the Ubuntu Font Family. This Ubuntu Font Licence serves as an interim licence until that is complete.

Default theme pack (Ambiance and Radiance)

Ubuntu Software Center Now Handles .deb file installation

Sound Menu

The Sound Menu was further improved and it should now respect your current theme colors:

New default wallpaper

Ubuntu Extras repository is live

Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition Release Candidate

The Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition Release Candidate (Unity & Co.) doesn’t bring any visual changes at all (compared to Beta) and while ever since Ubuntu 10.10 beta was released it worked just fine, after some updates from a few days ago, UNE started freezing again so it’s not usable at the time I’m writing this. Hopefully everything will be fixed soon.

Can / should I upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10 already?

I’ve been using Ubuntu 10.10 for some time now and for the past few weeks everything has been stable. Also, if when the beta was released I couldn’t enable the desktop effects (I’m using an Nvidia graphics card), now this finally works (it has for some time). Also, the bug which didn’t allow you to installed .deb files has been fixed so that’s out of the way too and most of the crashes I was experiencing when the beta was released, are now gone.

If you’re using an ATI graphics card, WebUpd8 reader Tamás Nagy sent us a tip a few days ago telling us that FGLRX finally works with Ubuntu 10.10 (Xorg 1.9 and 2.6.35/6 kernel) so if you’re using FGLRX you can finally enable the desktop effects and actually boot without getting a blank screen.

About the Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition Release Candidate: the story is the same as it was with the beta version: while it was usable at some point, it’s not anymore and everything crashes and freezes so I advice against installing / upgrading UNE 10.10 for now.

How to upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10

If you’ve installed any of the alphas or the beta version of Ubuntu 10.10 and constantly installed the updates that come through the Update Manager, you are already using the Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Release Candidate.

If you’re running an older Ubuntu version (10.04, 9.10 and so on), to upgrade to the latest Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat RC, all you have to do is press ALT + F2 and type:

Open teminal or press Alt-F2 and type update-manager --devel-release
Click the Check button to check for new  updates.
If there are any updates to install, use the Install  Updates button to install them, and press Check again after that is complete.
A  message will appear informing you of the availability of the new  release.
Click Upgrade.
Follow the on-screen instructions.


Download Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat RC

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‘LibreOffice to ship in Ubuntu’

‘The Ubuntu Project will be pleased to ship LibreOffice from The Document Foundation in future releases of Ubuntu’ said Mark Shuttleworth on the launch, describing office software a ‘critical component’ of the open source desktop.

Oracle, whose acquisition of Sun Microsystems last year made it owner of OpenOffice.org’s assets and branding hence the renaming, are not yet a member of The Document Foundation although have been invited to join.

OMG!Ubuntu!

Some interesting you may see in FAQ’s is that:

Q: What does this announcement mean to other derivatives of OpenOffice.org?

A: We want The Document Foundation to be open to code contributions from as many people as possible. We are delighted to announce that the enhancements produced by the Go-OOo team will be merged into LibreOffice, effective immediately. We hope that others will follow suit.

This beta release is not intended for production use!

• Download and install this for the English version to be used on 32-bit Microsoft Windows.
• Download and install this for the English version to be used on various GNU/Linux 32-bit distributions – DEB.
• Download and install this for the English version to be used on various GNU/Linux 64-bit distributions – DEB.
• Download and install this for the English version to be used on various GNU/Linux 32-bit distributions – RPM.
• Download and install this for the English version to be used on various GNU/Linux 64-bit distributions – RPM.
• Download and install this for the English version to be used on Apple MacOS X.
• Click here to download the tarball containing the source code.

Also all (x86) Debian, Ubuntu, Mint and other deb-based Linux users can use this temporary repository, until LibreOffice is included in main repos

1. Adding the repository:

echo “ deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/gericom/libreoffice / #gericom@hummer“ | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

2. Adding the signing key:

wget deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/gericom/gericom.asc -q -O- | sudo apt-key add -

And finaly:

sudo apt-get update

There have been many changes and updates in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat since Alpha 3, so let’s take a look at what’s new – in both Desktop and Netbook editions. We’ve already posted most of these changes when the packages were updated in Maverick, but as always, we’ll take a closer look at what’s new with each alpha/beta release. Watch out, huge post ahead!

Ubuntu (Desktop edition) 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Beta

With the new wallpaper also came beautiful new community wallpapers:

– With the Ambiance theme:

– With the Radiance theme:

For comparison, here’s how it used to look:

For now, only Rhythmbox is working with the sound menu, but soon, Banshee and Amarok should also be supported.

However, the buying process does not work for now.

Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Beta (the Unity interface)

The trash, applications and files items in the “dock” got pretty new icons:

Should I upgrade already?

Up next:

• RC: 30 September
• Ubuntu 10.10 final: October 10 (10.10.10).

Here what Dans is saying about “I’ve been working on a new set of monos for Dark panels as well as the styling for this sexy new dark panel in eGTK. Figured I should tease you a bit “

Installation

The latest and greatest release of the Elementary GTK will be available via the Elementary PPA very shortly. In the mean time if you’re dying to play with the new scrollbars you can download the theme here http://danrabbit.deviantart.com/art/elementary-gtk-theme-83104033

Note that elementary uses and requires three theme engines: Murrine, Aurora, and Equinox. Aurora and Murrine are pre-installed in Ubuntu, but Equinox, can be installed via the Elementary PPA.