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Will Cooke
10 November 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly, Nov 3rd & 10th: Bionic daily images available

Article Desktop

The big news this week is the availability of Bionic daily ISOs. As always, we’re beavering away on the desktop: GNOME We’ve started a conversation on the GNOME mailing list to talk about locking down extensions which are part of a “mode” (a set of compulsory extensions and other settings). Ubuntu ships a mode

Will Cooke
10 November 2017

Will Cooke
1 November 2017

Canonical joins GNOME Foundation Advisory Board

Article Desktop

As you’re no doubt aware, the default Ubuntu desktop is now running GNOME Shell following the 17.10 release and so we naturally have a great deal of interest in the plans and direction of the GNOME project. The best way for us to get more involved in the future of GNOME is to become a

Will Cooke
1 November 2017

David Callé
18 October 2017

Fresh Snaps from September 2017

Article Desktop

October, it’s almost time for a new Ubuntu release! This month’s pick of the top snaps is all about spending relaxing time with your computer: playing games, listening to music and enjoying beautiful GNOME applications! If the term snaps doesn’t ring a bell, they are a new way for developers to package their apps, bringing

David Callé
18 October 2017

Iain Lane
3 July 2017

Switching from Unity to Gnome-Shell: first challenges

Article Desktop

I work at Canonical, on the desktop team. The team works on Ubuntu Desktop, publishing a release every six months containing the fruits of our efforts — or at least those ones that are ready enough for real people to use. For the next release (out in October), we were given a big task. Switch the desktop

Iain Lane
3 July 2017

Ken VanDine
12 June 2017

Ubuntu Desktop – GNOME Extensions poll results

Article Desktop

Recently, with the help from our friends at OMG! Ubuntu, we ran a poll to collect data on usefulness of some GNOME Shell extensions. We limited the poll to a select group of extensions based on popularity on https://extensions.gnome.org as well as how they changed the user experience. The poll was done with Google forms,

Ken VanDine
12 June 2017

Will Cooke
9 June 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: June 9, 2017

Article Desktop

GNOME We’ve made the decision to switch to using GNOME Display Manager (GDM) instead of LightDM. We had planned to try LightDM, and based on our investigations it became apparent that we would need to invest a considerable amount of time making changes to get everything to work correctly, more time than we have. We

Will Cooke
9 June 2017

Canonical
26 July 2010

Guadec Day 1

Design Ubuntu

This week I am at Guadec in Den Haag. For those less familiar with working on open-source projects Guadec is the annual gathering of developers, users and businesses primarily focused on GNOME. GNOME, for those of you who don’t know is the core desktop element of Ubuntu. Explanations for the uninitiated now delivered, I will

Canonical
26 July 2010

Canonical
10 June 2010

Announcing the User Experience Advocates Project

User Experience Ubuntu

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 June 2010

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