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New in lucid...
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| If you're running lucid with the latest
| updates be sure to try click n' drag the
| window from anywhere in the top dark area.
| In other words, the windeco and menubar
| are both dragable now.
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http://kwwii.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-in-lucid.html
Ubuntu 10.04âs UI â What Can Less Brown Do For You?
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| If thereâs two things Ubuntu has always
| been, itâs brown and orange. This has a
| striking resemblance to the not-so good
| looking nature of, say, a shag living room
| carpet circa the 1970s.
|
| You canât convince me that a brown
| interface with bright orange icons looks
| good. Not a chance. Ubuntu has been like
| that for quite some time. While itâs true
| you could always change the GUI colors to
| whatever you wish, the point is that you
| always see a cavalcade of brown and orange
| on first install.
|
| [...]
|
| If youâre wondering whatâs breaking
| familiarity with 10.04âs desktop compared
| to 9.10, the bottom panel isnât there by
| default, the aforementioned window
| controls have been moved from right to
| left, and I donât see any workspace
| switching options in the top panel whereas
| you did before in the now-gone bottom
| panel.
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http://www.pcmech.com/article/ubuntu-10-04s-ui-what-can-less-brown-do-for-you/
Hands-on: a close look at Ubuntu's new non-brown theme
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2010/03/hands-on-a-close-look-at-ubuntus-new-non-brown-theme.ars
And Ubuntu changed again!
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| If there is one thing I do not like about
| Ubuntu, or better still, that irritates me
| about the project, it is the frequency
| with which things keep changing on the GUI
| front. Heck, seems every release has a
| learning curve in terms of GUI!
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http://www.ghabuntu.com/2010/03/and-ubuntu-changed-again.html
Recent:
Is operating system beauty skin deep?
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| Ubuntu has the opposite problem. Itâs just
| an operating system. What it needs is a
| standard application bundle, shipped
| together or in conjunction with it, to make
| it useful. An operating system, a graphics
| program, a browser, and basic utilities
| people use every day.
|
| While Microsoft is anxious to create these
| bundles, seeing it as opportunity, however,
| Ubuntu seems to see this as a Hobsonâs
| Choice. Since open source programs carry no
| price, there is little basis on which it
| can make these choices.
|
| It needs to make them.
|
| What I want in an operating system isnât
| something that runs a computer. What I want
| is a computer that runs. I want it to be
| simple, I want it to be fast, I want it to
| be complete.
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http://www.smartplanet.com/technology/blog/thinking-tech/is-operating-system-beauty-skin-deep/3306/
Light: the new look of Ubuntu
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| Jono Bacon, Alan Pope, and many others have
| written, yesterday we published a new
| visual story and style for Ubuntu. The core
| design work was lead by Marcus Haslam, Otto
| Greenslade and Dominic Edmunds, who are the
| three visual artists leading our efforts in
| the Canonical Design team. Once we had the
| base ideas in place we invited some anchor
| members of the Ubuntu Art community to a
| design sprint, to test that the concept had
| the legs to work with the full range of
| forums, websites, derivatives and other
| pieces of this huge and wonderful project.
| And apparently, it does!
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http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/308
Ubuntu has new themes â but what is up with those window buttons?
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| So what has been learned from this example.
| Sometimes something untraditional,
| especially in regard to interfaces can
| increase usability and make things
| generally easier. Of course other real
| world scenarios could discredit this
| reasoning. Please feel free to post any
| scenarios in which you feel this button
| arrangement is more of a hindrance than
| helpful.
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http://elementmypc.com/blog/?p=15
6 Amazing Gnome Shell Themes (And How To Install Themes In Gnome Shell)
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| Some things you should know:
|
| * for now there is no way to install
| multiple themes, so each time you install
| a theme you must overwrite the previous
| one
| * when you upgrade Gnome Shell, it will
| revert to the default theme so you must
| install the theme again
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http://www.webupd8.org/2010/02/5-amazing-gnome-shell-themes-and-how-to.html
Gnome Shell 2.29.0 Released [What's New And Screenshots Inside]
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| Gnome Shell is the new core user interface
| for Gnome 3 which provides switching
| windows and applications but you've
| probably already heard of it by now so I'll
| skip the introduction. However, I would
| like to mention that this is still a VERY
| EARLY version of GNOME Shell and should not
| be taken of indicative of the final user
| interface or performance.
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http://www.webupd8.org/2010/02/gnome-shell-2290-released-whats-new-and.html
GNOME Shell 2.29 Brings A Lot Of Improvements
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| A few days back we reported on a new Mutter
| release, which is the window and
| compositing manager for GNOME 3.0, and now
| with the GNOME 2.29.91 beta release coming
| up on Wednesday there is also the release
| of another new GNOME 3.0 component. Perhaps
| the single biggest new component for the
| GNOME 3.x stack is the GNOME Shell and this
| is the package that just reached version
| 2.29.0. GNOME 2.29.0 brings a lot of
| improvements.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODAwNw
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