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Canonical
10 February 2010

Get your photos into Ubuntu!

Ubuntu Design

The coming release will be the second in which we’ve gone out to the wider world to source some gorgeous photos to put into Ubuntu. When you get this fab desktop environment we also want you to have some gorgeous backgrounds right out of the box. So once again we’re running a wallpaper contest on ...


Canonical
10 February 2010

Lucid Community Artwork push

Ubuntu Design

Lucid is well under way so I thought it is time to remind everyone of a few initiatives you might want to get involved with:The Ubuntu Artwork wallpaper flickr groupSubmit a theme for the Community Themes package in LucidHelp us with identify ...


Canonical
9 February 2010

Lucid Paper Cuts Round 9 Progress Report

Ubuntu Design

One Hundred Paper Cuts for Lucid is going well. 56 paper cuts have been fixed so far. We have to fix at least 20 more paper cuts to match the number of paper cuts fixed in Karmic, a record you can help us surpass by working on closing the 26 paper cuts with bugs attached.This ...


Canonical
8 February 2010

Dressing for the occasion

Ubuntu Design

Watching a new Nena video today on VIVA, I realized that a) she’s hot for her age but makes crap music and b) I really need an evil-bunny-man costume.Naturally, that made me think of Jono’s wonderful costume (not to mention the effects it had on t ...


Canonical
8 February 2010

New toy

Ubuntu Design

Picked up a N900 the other day. It’s really quite amazing. Best of all it’s linux *and* the keyboard is big enough for my thick fingers. The design isn’t as nice as the iphone though. ...


Canonical
5 February 2010

Improved window management shortcuts land in Lucid

Ubuntu Design

Sebastian Bacher landed improved Compiz keyboard shortcucts in Lucid this week during the distro sprint in Portland, Oregon (which is by far the best sprint I’ve ever been to–everybody is rocking):Super↓E↓↑↑ triggers Expo as usual.Super↓W↓↑↑ scales all windows on your current workspace (hint: try typing in scale mode!).Super↓A↓↑↑ scales a ...


Canonical
5 February 2010

Matt Asay joins Canonical as COO

Ubuntu open source

We are delighted to welcome Matt Asay to the Canonical fold, taking up the role of Chief Operating Officer with immediate effect. The details can be found in the press release. Matt has also written about the new challenge in his Open Road blog. So all that remains to say here is how much the ...


Canonical
5 February 2010

Open source industry veteran Matt Asay joins Canonical as chief operating officer

Desktop News

Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, announced today that open source industry veteran Matt Asay has joined the company as chief operating officer (COO) — responsible for aligning strategic goals and operational activities, the optimization of day-to-day operations, and leadership of Canonical marketing and back-office functi ...


Canonical
5 February 2010

Ending poverty with open hardware

Ubuntu Design

The Hexayurt is a new kind of sheltering solution. To make the simplest hexayurt, make a wall by putting six sheets of plywood on their sides in a hexagon. Cut six more sheets in half diagonally, and screw them together into a shallow cone. Lift the roof on to the wall with a large group ...


Canonical
3 February 2010

Do I really want to touch my computer all day?

Ubuntu Design

This concept video has been doing the rounds following a brief showing on Tech Crunch. It looks like a tablet interface you could do work on but I have to wonder if that’s a way of working that I’d even really want. For better or worse we’ve established a way of working with traditional documents ...


Canonical
2 February 2010

Platform sprint in Portland

Ubuntu Design

The Ubuntu platform sprint in Portland, Oregon has been an amazing experience. We’ve gotten loads of work done and are having a great time in a wonderful city. Compared to Dallas, this city rocks 😉 ...


Canonical
26 January 2010

Lucid Paper Jam update!

Ubuntu Design

I thought I’d write a quick update on paper cut progress for Lucid. Last week was our “Sound & Video” paper jam. The following paper cuts were fixed:Totem: Must have a fullscreen button“Razor” [is] an odd name for the split toolRhythmbox Notification Bubble shows wrong cover art[Sound Recorder] Cancel button doesn’t use correct behaviour ...