Ubuntu

Something New and Beautiful: Ubuntu, distilled, in type

by Mark Shuttleworth on 28 September 2010

The Ubuntu font represents the values of Ubuntu and Canonical, distilled into a typeface that is highly legible on screen, clean and balanced in print,...

Getting physical

by Canonical on 14 September 2010

Introduction With the ingress in the market of products like Nintendo Wii, Apple iPhone and Microsoft Kinect, developers finally started realizing that there...

Third update to the Ubuntu Light Themes

by Canonical on 10 September 2010

Still Andrea Cimitan, still good news for you 🙂 This is a small blog post to list few of the changes we did to light-themes: Menuitem speedup, hurray!!! 😀...

Boo-yah!!!

by Canonical on 27 August 2010

105 papercut bugs have been fixed in Maverick already! Read on to find out how you can help us clear even more.

10.10.10.10.10…..

by Mark Shuttleworth on 20 August 2010

Here’s a way to show off your movie-making creative skills AND promote whatever you think the coolest things in 10.10 are: make a Maverick Movie!

Gestures with multitouch in Ubuntu 10.10

by Mark Shuttleworth on 16 August 2010

Gestures are a powerful interaction language that will be as relevant for desktops as it is on phones and tablets. Ubuntu 10.10 has a gesture framework that...

The first milestone

by Canonical on 10 August 2010

As work on the font continues we thought it would be good to get some insight from the people working on developing it. In the first of these posts, Bruno...

An Update to the Ubuntu Light Themes

by Canonical on 9 August 2010

One of our key objectives when we started conceptualising the new themes was their ability to be immediately recognisable as Ubuntu, even if represented as a...

Making room in the sound indicator

by Mark Shuttleworth on 4 August 2010

Showing a few mockups of track data overlayed on album art in the new sound menu in Maverick Meerkat, 10.10.

Discussing Unity in Linux Format

by Canonical on 28 June 2010

Issue 134 (August, 2010) of Linux Format magazine contains an interview by Jono Bacon in which I discuss Unity and other related topics. Below are the...

Introduction to Unity Launcher

by Canonical on 23 June 2010

This article illustrates briefly the main functionalities of the Launcher for Ubuntu Netbook Edition (aka Unity) and how we got there. Don’t miss the video!

Announcing the User Experience Advocates Project

by Canonical on 10 June 2010

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....