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Canonical
10 September 2010

Third update to the Ubuntu Light Themes

Ubuntu Design

Still Andrea Cimitan, still good news for you šŸ™‚ This is a small blog post to list few of the changes we did to light-themes: Menuitem speedup, hurray!!! šŸ˜€ Subtle shadow on inactive notebookā€™s tabs White text color on GtkProgressBar Increased visibility of the resize gripper Fixed contrast applied to elements in GtkStatusbar More compatibi ...

Canonical
27 August 2010

Boo-yah!!!

Ubuntu Development

105 papercut bugs have been fixed in Maverick already! Read on to find out how you can help us clear even more. ...

Mark Shuttleworth
20 August 2010

10.10.10.10.10ā€¦..

Ubuntu Design

Hereā€™s a way to show off your movie-making creative skills AND promote whatever you think the coolest things in 10.10 are: make a Maverick Movie! ...

Mark Shuttleworth
16 August 2010

Gestures with multitouch in Ubuntu 10.10

Ubuntu Design

Gestures are a powerful interaction language that will be as relevant for desktops as it is on phones and tablets. Ubuntu 10.10 has a gesture framework that allows for gesture chaining or composition into rich ā€œgesture sentencesā€. You can use multi-touch gestures for window management with Unity in 10.10 Netbook Edition or on your desktop ...

Canonical
10 August 2010

The first milestone

Ubuntu Design

As work on the font continues we thought it would be good to get some insight from the people working on developing it. In the first of these posts, Bruno Maag explains where the team are and whatā€™s coming. ...

Canonical
9 August 2010

An Update to the Ubuntu Light Themes

Ubuntu Design

One of our key objectives when we started conceptualising the new themes was their ability to be immediately recognisable as Ubuntu, even if represented as a small screenshot. As easily recognised as when it used to be brown ā€“ but not that brownā€¦ the incarnation that we initially launched was a bold new statement: a ...

Mark Shuttleworth
4 August 2010

Making room in the sound indicator

Ubuntu Design

Showing a few mockups of track data overlayed on album art in the new sound menu in Maverick Meerkat, 10.10. ...

Canonical
28 June 2010

Discussing Unity in Linux Format

Ubuntu Design

Issue 134 (August, 2010) of Linux Format magazine contains an interview by Jono Bacon in which I discuss Unity and other related topics. Below are the questions Jono asked me and my responses.How did you get started in Open Source?I had to build a UNIX shell and UNIX-like kernel for a university course on operating ...

Canonical
23 June 2010

Introduction to Unity Launcher

Ubuntu Design

This article illustrates briefly the main functionalities of the Launcher for Ubuntu Netbook Edition (aka Unity) and how we got there. Donā€™t miss the video! ...

Canonical
10 June 2010

Announcing the User Experience Advocates Project

Ubuntu User Experience

After working on paper cuts for a year, I realized how disorganized many open source projects affecting Ubuntu are when it comes to improving user experience. I would often go to upstream projects with a list of paper cuts to discuss and have a very difficult time finding someone to discuss them with. Either the ...

Canonical
10 May 2010

Hello, Unity

Ubuntu Design

This is an early version of Unity, what will hopefully become the new interface for Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10:Unity comprises:A launcher that makes opening and switching between applications delightful.A panel where indicators behave uniformly.A view of your installed applications, with Ubuntu Software Center integration.A view of your ...

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