Showing posts with label might. Show all posts
Showing posts with label might. Show all posts
Monday, August 28, 2017
Ubuntu 14 04 Trusty Tahr Might Get A New Icon Theme
Ubuntu 14 04 Trusty Tahr Might Get A New Icon Theme
In an Ubuntu Developer Summit session today, Matthieu James (Graphic/Visual Designer at Canonical) presented the design guidelines as well as some of the work done to create a new icon theme for Ubuntu (both desktop and touch).
The main goal is to finalize the new icon theme for 14.04 on touch devices but its also possible for the icon theme to be available for Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr on the desktop.
Here are a few screenshots with some of the slides in Matthieus presentation (the quality is pretty bad since I took screenshots of the G+ hangout):
Unfortunately, the presentation used in the vUDS session is not yet available, but you can watch the entire session below:
(direct video link)
What do you think?
Also see: Possible Changes In Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)
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Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Ubuntu might add torrent search to Unity in Ubuntu 14 04
Ubuntu might add torrent search to Unity in Ubuntu 14 04
Ubuntu received a lot of flak for their high-handedness when they haphazardly added Amazon search results to Unity dash without taking enough feedback from end-users. The fix-ubuntu debacle didnt help either. But with their decision to include torrent search results into Unity, Canonical is undertaking some much needed damage-control exercises.
Canonical planning to include torrent search into Unity
TorrentFreak is reporting that, Canonical is planning to include torrent search capability to upcoming versions of Ubuntu. The tools creator has informed TorrentFreak that, while there is still a lot of work to be done, the aim of the scope is to embed Free Culture directly into the Ubuntu user experience.
In early December 2013, developer David Call� revealed that a new torrent scope for Ubuntu was now available. Though he was quite skeptical about having the scope included in Ubuntu by default since it would inevitably turn up unlicensed content. But the wholesome embracing of the project by Canonicals founder Mark Shuttleworth himself laid all apprehensions to rest.
"The tool is super-useful and it�s perfectly justified to make it available by default. We use torrents for distributing Ubuntu itself. So please don�t hold back!?" Shuttleworth replied to Call�.
The main motivation behind the torrents scope was to embed Free Culture into the user experience, in the search engine of the OS. The current prototype uses a TPB [The Pirate Bay] backend and is in a very early state in terms of filtering what is presented to the user and how it does it, the developed added. The filtering will be switchable so that users are able to get the full BitTorrent search experience if they so desire.
So will this torrent search scope will find its way into Ubuntu 14.04? Well soon find out. Full interview with developer David Call� can be found at TorrentFreak.
Canonical planning to include torrent search into Unity
TorrentFreak is reporting that, Canonical is planning to include torrent search capability to upcoming versions of Ubuntu. The tools creator has informed TorrentFreak that, while there is still a lot of work to be done, the aim of the scope is to embed Free Culture directly into the Ubuntu user experience.
In early December 2013, developer David Call� revealed that a new torrent scope for Ubuntu was now available. Though he was quite skeptical about having the scope included in Ubuntu by default since it would inevitably turn up unlicensed content. But the wholesome embracing of the project by Canonicals founder Mark Shuttleworth himself laid all apprehensions to rest.
"The tool is super-useful and it�s perfectly justified to make it available by default. We use torrents for distributing Ubuntu itself. So please don�t hold back!?" Shuttleworth replied to Call�.
The main motivation behind the torrents scope was to embed Free Culture into the user experience, in the search engine of the OS. The current prototype uses a TPB [The Pirate Bay] backend and is in a very early state in terms of filtering what is presented to the user and how it does it, the developed added. The filtering will be switchable so that users are able to get the full BitTorrent search experience if they so desire.
So will this torrent search scope will find its way into Ubuntu 14.04? Well soon find out. Full interview with developer David Call� can be found at TorrentFreak.
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