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Mark Shuttleworth
3 May 2010

Window indicators

Ubuntu Design

“Windicators” are window indicators, on the right of the title bar, which follow the same pattern as the Ayatana indicators that Ubuntu uses on in the panel. ...

Canonical
29 April 2010

Reasons to celebrate 29th April 2010

Ubuntu Design

One of the first things I did when I joined Canonical just over a year ago was conduct some user research. The idea was to identify some broad areas that needed to be addressed and so I devised sessions that included topics like dealing with music and photos, browsing the Internet, chatting with friends, etc. ...

Canonical
28 April 2010

Ubuntu visual identity

Ubuntu Design

Drum roll please….After a *lot* of amazing effort from the Canonical design team I am pleased to announce that preliminary Ubuntu visual identity is online and available to all!.If you’ve never worked through such a process before the amount of work ...

Canonical
27 April 2010

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Desktop Edition: faster boot speed and a new design

Desktop News

Long-term support (LTS) version of popular desktop operating system generally available on 29 April Canonical announced today the upcoming release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Desktop Edition, the latest version of the popular Linux desktop distribution, which includes three years of support through free security and maintenance updates. It will b ...

Canonical
27 April 2010

When it comes to social networking what are you? Door, Mirror, Room?

Ubuntu Notes

Everyone belongs to one, two or more social networking sites. At Canonical, we wondered “What does social networking mean to people?” I set off to find out.  I went to people’s homes, sat with them at their computers, looked at the social networking sites they belong to, at their friends, and observed them using the ...

Mark Shuttleworth
27 April 2010

A global menu for Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition

Ubuntu Design

The Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition will use a single consolidated menu, displayed in the panel, rather than individual menus in each application window. ...

Canonical
27 April 2010

Canonical announces strong ISV and open source ecosystem support for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Desktop News

Canonical announces strong ISV and open source ecosystem support for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Canonical today revealed strong software vendor support for the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long-term Support) release for both server and desktop. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, to be released on 29 April 2010, will ship with hundreds of open source applications avai ...

Canonical
27 April 2010

Canonical’s Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server Edition features the ideal deployment platform for Linux server workloads and cloud computing

Cloud and server News

Long-term support (LTS) version of popular server operating system generally available on 29 April Canonical today announced the upcoming release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server Edition which includes extended security and maintenance updates free of charge to all users for five years (versus 18 months for a standard release). The third and la ...

Matthew Paul Thomas
23 April 2010

Refining the battery status menu

Ubuntu Notes

As part of the notification area transition, we’re adapting the Gnome Power Manager item to be a system status menu. We’re interested in your feedback on the design and any improvements we can make. ...

Canonical
23 April 2010

Magical Mystery Cafe

Ubuntu Design

There will be those of you reading this who will say “only in Japan” and ordinarily I would shy away from that sort of thing but in this case I think you’re right. Cabel Sasser is co-founder of a software company I’ve long admired and found a very interesting place to get a drink while ...

Canonical
23 April 2010

New strategic plan!

Ubuntu Design

Came across this on the delightful Swissmiss. We are always in the process of reviewing our development processes a both design and technical to keep them Lean and agile and the chap quoted here is Herb Kelleher of Southwest airlines fame. Southwest are renowned for the way that the run their company. Highly responsive to ...

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