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...
February 2011
11 posts
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Now we can rock this...
Mikkel and Ken have a weekend present for you for those of you who have been waiting to add Unity Launcher bling to your Python apps. I guess these are bindings or “accessible in python” or whatever the GI way of saying it is:
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/LauncherAPI
Please note that this is new and I’m really just trying to sucker you into banging on it so you can file bugs...
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Supporting LibreOffice
In case you missed it LibreOffice is taking donations:
To legally form The Document Foundation in Germany, a minimum of 50,000 Euros is needed. Therefore, we’ve launched this public 50,000 Euro challenge to raise the funds through donations.
Donate to LibreOffice
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Chromify OSD now in the Chrome Web Store
From idea to …. now available.
Many thanks to Stuart Langridge for his initial prototype and to George Edison and Marco Ceppi for implementing it and submitting it through the web store process.
Now to shake the bugs out and polish it up …
PSA: The Oatmeal is coming out with a book.
The Oatmeal is pretty funny.
Apparently he’s coming out with a book.
Preordered.
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Progress Meters, quicklists, and number count for...
Here’s something I’ve been waiting for that I’m sure application authors will enjoy:
We now have an API for applications to leave a progress meter and/or a number on their launcher. The wiki page is a bit sparse so expect more detail there over the coming week.
What we need to do
Well, the first thing I’m working on is getting the wiki page up to shape. We’re...
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Random small bling
Because people only land cool stuff after my weekly report:
First off, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) has readded the old autohide behavior to the launcher for those of you that are into that sort of thing. Here’s the video showing you how it works.
Secondly, power keyboard users might want to check out the keyboard shortcuts page. I recently discovered the power of Ctrl-Alt-numpad, I think...
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Unity Bitesize Report for 8 Feb
Welcome to another edition of the Unity bitesize report!
New Stuff
Cando’s been working on two fixes (which are under review). The first is being able to middle click on a maximized window title in the panel and have that be pushed to the background.
In case you didn’t know, you can middle click on window titlebars and they get pushed behind other windows. This can be a very handy...
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Making a better apt.ubuntu.com (translators...
One of the best resources we have (that people seemingly don’t use enough) is apt.ubuntu.com.
In the beginning we tried doing apt:// links, but that required websites and programs supporting it, so now we have a URL that you can just give to a person like http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/banshee, they clicky, and it fires up the Software Center and prompts them to install it.
Try it:
Install...
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Unity Shortcuts, let's document them...
I’ve started this page.
If you’re running 11.04, please start adding shortcuts to this page as you find them. Or if you have the time to go through CCSM and add them all to this page it would be quite useful.
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Unity Bitesize Bug Report for 1 Feb
A new week, a new contributor! This week the team would like to welcome Marco Trevisan (Treviño) to the team.
Marco has two feature improvements to the Unity desktop this week. The first is the notification when you mouse scroll to adjust the volume on the panel. This was covered by OMG!Ubuntu, which has a video if you want to see it in action. More importantly, Marco’s added scroll...
January 2011
15 posts
User Days: Unity Q+A and other sessions
Got nothing better to do this weekend?
Well, you could check out Ubuntu User Days. A full day of user-related tutorials this Friday and some sessions on Saturday night too weekend, depending on where you live.
At 0300UTC (10pm EST) on Saturday Jason Smith and I will be fielding Unity questions for an hour, followed by general “What’s cooking in Ubuntu”, where I’ll field...
Unity Bitesize Bug Report for 25 January
Welcome to another installment of the Unity Bitesize bug report. We’re a little over a week away from Alpha2. In case you missed it, Rick reports that the initial implementation of the Dash has landed.
Annoyances Fixed:
Sam’s taken care of 2 long-annoying bugs this week. The first is the “menus drawing behind menus”, and bug 705324, which was causing the flash plugin to...
