March 2011
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Web app matching with Chromium and Unity
Thanks to the hard work of Marco Trevisan Unity now has better support for Chromium web applications.
If you look at the pic you’ll notice that each web app has it’s own icon and it’s own window (and of course when you click on icons they’ll open in a proper browser window):
Thanks to Fabien Tassin for his guidance, and of course thanks to the upstream guys at...
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It Will be Boring for a While
(but in a good way)
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While there is no exciting new bling to talk about this week, there are plenty of bugfixes to be had for this Unity release. This week the team welcomes Nico van der Walt as he makes his introduction fixing Bug #731212: “Applications” and “Files & Folders” keyboard shortcut overlays not drawn correctly with scalable launcher and...
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So this is total fun.
One of my friends has a Syma S107 Micro RC helicopter and when I heard these are about $30-$40 I decided to snag a Z008, which is similar but adds these side fan things so I can slide side to side:
It’s a bunch of fun to fly inside, and very beginner friendly. I hear they’re setting up a course at a local hackerspace so people can do races, etc. I was getting off easy the first...
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Jorge-tor and the Snow Dog
So finally, after 20 years I have finally scored Rush tickets. Growing up I could never afford it, and even now with ticket prices how they are it’s not necessarily cheap for 2 people. On top of that, with as amazing as live concert DVD/BR production is these days why pay that much for $8 beers and sticky floors?
Well, first off, this changed my mind. Everyone who loves rock music should...
Multimonitor help needed for ayatana scrollbars
I left an omission from this week’s Unity Bitesize Report.
I get a weird error with the new ayatana scrollbars with multiple monitors:
Luckily Cimi says:
the bug is in os_scrollbar_sanitize_x and os_scrollbar_sanitize_y. We should use gdk_screen_get_monitor_geometry instead gdk_screen_get_width… (or a combo), if someone is willing to do these calculations, it is pure math...
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Smaller Launcher with intellihide = nice.
Here’s my desktop when I’m working on stuff:
And here it is clean with my Launcher shrunk down, thanks to Andrea Azzarone’s contribution. This feels really great on my laptop:
Neil’s also landed a bunch of multimonitor fixes. Here’s some other goodies in Unity 3.6.4. Bitesize report on Tuesday, but I just had to share the love on this tiny-launcher.
I am now on...
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Unity Bitesize Report for Alpha 3
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Lots of updates today. First of all, by the time you read this or by the time your mirror updates (or when you get Alpha 3 on Thursday) you’ll have the latest drop of the Unity Dash:
Other Contributors this Week
We have a new contributor this week, Marco Bisaro has fixed Bug #713789 – Upper left Ubuntu logo has different background color than panel.
Olivier Sauder’s work...
