Precise Pangolin has now its finale Unity release (5.10) Most of the time, after an Unity release, I look like that: Well, ok, not really, but in fact, this is after doing some exercice after an unity release, so it's exactly the same, isn't it? :) This particular release didn't follow this rule though. Even if last Friday and Monday were a little bit rushy, we kept merging latest patches on a regular basis to polish the Unity experience on 3D as well as on 2D for Ubuntu 12. 12 April 2012
Unity 5.8 out, ready for beta2! As I write Unity 5.8 is currently building on our official builders and will reach ubuntu precise soon. For this release, a big part of the stack was uploaded (14 components) including unity, unity-2d, nux of course, but also compiz 0.9.7.2 and the lenses (with some ABI breaks in the middle). What's new on this unity release? Well, you can see the 3d milestone and 2d bug fixes (look also at this one for unity 2d which landed last monday). 23 March 2012
New, shiny, Unity 5.6 released! Phew! it's been a long road to release the next unity, but I'm more than happy to finally announce therelease of 5.6. Unity components (dee, libunity, bamf, lenses, nux) and unity itself, plus some compiz snapshots (post 0.9.7.0) are part of this release. The packages are currently building on the official builders and should be soon available to you. No particular new feature apart from better ibus support are part of it, plus a tons of bug fixes and some miscelleanous improvements: - Daniel van Vungt landed a patch in compiz that enhances its performance for more than 51%! 12 March 2012
Unity 5.2 is now released! Phew! It's been a crazy ride to release Unity 5.2 once ubuntu precise released its alpha 2, but we finally get there! Thanks a lot for all the community participation, we actually got 27 testers answering to Nick's call for testing. Those were high quality contributions and enabled us to get closer to the unity release. So, what's new since 5.0? Well, a lot! :) More precisely, we got multimonitor support with screen edge detection, " 03 February 2012
Some unity configuration in gnome-control-center. Just finished some hacking for implementing some unity configuration options that are blessed by the design team, as shown in this official specification. It contains as well other ui tweaks. You can notice in particular the "Restore defaults" options that work on each tabs and restore every page's defaults. Those options are impacting both unity and unity-2d. This gave particular challenges as their features don't align (for instance, we don't show the " 26 January 2012
Nautilus precise unity quicklist gets bookmarks! Flying back from Budapest, I hacked on a long-time awaited design whishlist: "Nautilus quicklist does not contain the locations previously found under the 'Places' menu.". This is about getting the Unity quicklist for the nautilus launcher icon to display the list of the user's bookmark. It was unexpecdictly more "fun" that what I thought it would be. Indeed, there is already one dynamic quicklist, appearing when you are making a copy operation which can take some time (when the copy dialog appears), giving the possibility to " 17 January 2012
Unity 5.0 into precise! Now that the Canonical rally is ending, I'm happy to announce that we released and uploaded Unity 5.0 to precise! This is by far the most exciting and the best Unity released we ever had, and I'm happy that we've be able to accomplish all of this thanks to the community and the excellent developer team. We received a lot of testing and got more than 50 test results from my previous call for testing. 13 January 2012
Releasing a precise Unity 5.0 to Ubuntu 12.04 The Canonical ubuntu platform and product strategy teams are gathering in Budapest this week to tackle as much work as possible on precise pangolin. Despite the promise of snow and cheap beers, we are working hard on getting Unity 5.0 out of the door. One of the goal of this release is to increase quality, precision, no regression on the work we push to the unstable version of ubuntu. The desktop experience team made automated and manual tests for that and we can already see the first benefits from it. 11 January 2012
OneConf in Oneiric and the way forward… A little bit of retrospective OneConf is a pet project I'm trying to push since UDS Barcelona. The full idea is originally described on this wiki page: OneConf is a mechanism for recording software information in Ubuntu One, and synchronizing with other computers as needed. In Maverick, the list of installed software is stored. This may eventually expand to include some application settings and application state. Other tools like Stipple can provide more advanced settings/control. 05 October 2011
Accessible Qt now in Oneiric! Accessibility is one of the core value of Ubuntu. When we announced that Unity 2D will be the fallback if you have no required hardware or driver for unity 3D, one of the compulsory request for that is that Unity 2D should be accessible. Even if one of the goal for the cycle is to make Unity fully accessible[1] we should still consider people needed accessibility and not filling the requirements for it. 23 June 2011