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Ubuntu 10.04 Live CD Installer gets improved look
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| The Ubuntu 10.04 Live CD has ditched the
| boring âblack on white textâ menu approach
| and instead delivers up a GUI menu. Whilst
| weâre still 2 months away from the final
| installer design, hereâs a quick peek at it
| as it currently exists: -
|
| So youâve download and burnt your Ubuntu
| 10.04 Live CD, you pop it into your disc
| tray and whirr up.
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http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/03/ubuntu-1004-live-cd-installer-gets.html
New Ubuntu Design Created on Apple Mac
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| Dave Walker, a Ubuntu community leader who
| was invited in Canonical's offices in
| London to preview the style changes and
| give opinions on how the community will
| interpret the new branding, wrote about his
| 'behind the scenes' experience with the
| design team.
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http://jordanopensource.org/freeplanet/article/new-ubuntu-design-created-apple-mac
Iâm a Mac, Iâm an Ubuntu PC
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| Now, almost two years later, Shuttleworth
| seems ready to put his money where his
| mouth is with the coming release of Lucid
| Lynx, the first Ubuntu to break out of its
| dark brown motif and orange âHumanâ theme
| since the distribution was introduced in
| 2004.
|
| In a blog entry this month, Jono Bacon,
| Ubuntu community manager at Canonical,
| offered the public a glimpse of the new
| look that the popular Linux distribution
| will sport when it is launched in April.
|
| âThe new style of Ubuntu is driven by the
| theme âLight,ââ Bacon writes. âWeâve
| developed a comprehensive set of visual
| guidelines and treatments that reflect that
| style, and are updating key assets like the
| logo accordingly. The new theme takes
| effect in 10.04 LTS and will define our
| look and feel for several years.â
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http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideBusop.htm?f=2010/march/9/chinwong.isx&d=2010/march/9
Ubuntu's new look
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| Good interface design is crucial to making
| users comfortable with the tools in front
| of them. It makes it easy for them to find
| what they want and get the task at hand
| done. Whether they do this with a black
| background or a brown one or an orange one
| doesn't really matter all that much.
|
| Having been a long-time user of Ubuntu
| Linux I can say with certainty that there
| are far more pressing issues when it comes
| to interface design than the choice of
| colours. The menu system, almost entirely
| based on Gnome, is still incredibly
| unfriendly to users. I know much has been
| done over the years to improve this but
| there is some way to go.
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http://mybroadband.co.za/news/columns/11680.html
Ubuntu Rebranding
http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/03/05/ubuntu-rebranding/
Recent:
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
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
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