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Blog posts tagged
"Ubuntu"

Mark Shuttleworth
3 March 2011

Ayatana overlay scrollbars: something truly Natty

Ubuntu Design

Natty will feature a world first – overlay scrollbars in desktop applications. The goal is to put content first and banish chrome, while still paying attention to the needs of the desktop environment – mouse pointers. These were designed and developed by Canonical as part of the Ayatana initiative, improving both focus and awareness for u ...

Canonical
14 February 2011

Happy Valentine’s Day

Ubuntu Notes

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Canonical
26 November 2010

Papercuts: Litmus test

Ubuntu Development

Papercuts Natty cycle depends on you!What’s new this cycle and How you can get involved. ...

Canonical
27 October 2010

Introducing Ubuntu – The Movie!

Ubuntu Design

Almost all of the design team are in Orlando this week taking part in UDS. As well as getting ready for the summit in the last few weeks we’ve also been working on something we’re really excited about. You may have already seen this video we’ve commissioned which explains a little bit about what Ubuntu ...

Canonical
18 October 2010

What is UDS?

Phone and tablet Notes

We’ve been talking a lot about UDS but some of you out there might not know what it is. Duncan McGregor, one of my colleagues, has had this very conversation with a speaker who will be attending this UDS. He took some time to compose a blog post explaining what the summit is all about. ...

Canonical
4 October 2010

The weird and wonderful world of Latin Extended B

Ubuntu Design

Below, Amelie Bonet from the Dalton Maag design team shares her thoughts: Latin Extended B is a block (0180-024F) within the Unicode standard. With its utterly mundane name no-one would guess the wealth of shapes and glyphs. This specific and somehow obscure character set gathers 195 glyphs supporting a good mix of languages from Romania ...

Inayaili de León Persson
29 September 2010

29 days later

Ubuntu Article

It’s been 29 days since I’ve started working at Canonical and, let me tell you, they went by really fast. In the past few weeks I have worked on lots of projects and there is a lot more in the pipeline. I’ve mainly been working on the “realign” (rather than “redesign”) of canonical.com and ubuntu.com; ...

Mark Shuttleworth
28 September 2010

Something New and Beautiful: Ubuntu, distilled, in type

Ubuntu Design

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, professionally designed yet imbued with the wisdom of the whole Ubuntu community. I hope it’s a benchmark for more libre font work, and a catalyst for improvements in the tools of typograp ...

Canonical
14 September 2010

Getting physical

Ubuntu Design

Introduction With the ingress in the market of products like Nintendo Wii, Apple iPhone and Microsoft Kinect, developers finally started realizing that there are several ways a person can control a computer besides keyboards, mice and touch screens. These days there are many alternatives, obviously based on hardware sensors, and the main ...

Canonical
10 September 2010

Third update to the Ubuntu Light Themes

Ubuntu Design

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!!! 😀 Subtle shadow on inactive notebook’s tabs White text color on GtkProgressBar Increased visibility of the resize gripper Fixed contrast applied to elements in GtkStatusbar More compatibi ...

Canonical
27 August 2010

Boo-yah!!!

Ubuntu Development

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

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