Blog posts tagged
"unity"

20 posts

Alan Griffiths
19 December 2018

Unity8: a project that uses Mir

Article Desktop

Unity8 is a graphical shell targeting a range of devices and form factors including phones, tablets, laptops and desktops. Unity8 uses the facility to customize Mir’s default window management to give its “convergent” experience. In addition to the phones and tablets supported by Ubuntu Touch work is in progress to...

Alan Griffiths
19 December 2018

Will Cooke
1 December 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: December 1, 2017

Article Desktop

GNOME GNOME Disk Utility If you have snaps installed and open the Disks utility, your snaps appear as loop devices. We found this to be confusing and a bit messy, so we have proposed a fix upstream and this should be merged soon. Theme The community theme topic has been very busy on the hub. Yesterday we

Will Cooke
1 December 2017

Iain Lane
3 July 2017

Switching from Unity to Gnome-Shell: first challenges

Article Desktop

I work at Canonical, on the desktop team. The team works on Ubuntu Desktop, publishing a release every six months containing the fruits of our efforts — or at least those ones that are ready enough for real people to use. For the next release (out in October), we were given a big task. Switch the desktop

Iain Lane
3 July 2017

Amrisha Prashar
3 November 2016

Ubuntu 16.10 brings Unity 8 to desktop and more snap installations

Article Desktop

The recent release of Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak includes a developer preview of Unity 8 for desktop and the installation of snaps! The universal ‘snap’ Linux packages combine both container and packaging technologies to give developers a single format to distribute their apps and services from cloud to personal computing...

Amrisha Prashar
3 November 2016

Will Cooke
19 September 2016

Low Graphics Mode in Unity 7

Article Desktop

Unity 7 has had a low graphics mode for a long time but recently we’ve been making it better. Improvements have been made to reduce the amount of visual effects that are seen while running in low graphics mode.  At a high level this includes things like: Reducing the amount of animation in elements such as the window...

Will Cooke
19 September 2016

Pawel Stolowski
11 June 2015

Cleaning up scopes settings

Article Phone and tablet

The scopes architecture on Unity 7, which provides the Ubuntu shell and default UX experience on current desktops, and Unity 8, which powers the phone and soon the convergent desktop, differ to a large degree when it comes to visibility of data sources

Pawel Stolowski
11 June 2015

Canonical
15 November 2012

Unity Technologies releases 4.0 including game export for Ubuntu

Partners Ubuntu

The Unity cross-platform development tool version 4 has been released from beta into the growing world of Ubuntu game development. Every Unity developer is now only a few clicks away from publishing in the Ubuntu Software Center with Unity 4.0’s new Linux Deployment Preview. You can download a 30-day preview of all the...

Canonical
15 November 2012

Canonical
18 September 2012

Humble Indie Bundle 6 brings six new games to the Ubuntu Software Center

Partners Ubuntu

UPDATE: We’ve just added four more amazing titles to the Humble Indie Bundle 6! If you’ve already picked up a bundle, you’ll find BIT.TRIP RUNNER, Gratuitous Space Battles, Jamestown, and Wizorb available now if you beat the average. This brings the bundle to ten games strong! Humble Indie Bundle 6 is upon us – and

Canonical
18 September 2012

Mark Shuttleworth
27 March 2012

Holistic UI is smarter UX

Design Ubuntu

It’s only by looking at the whole, that we can design great experiences. And only by building a community of both system and application developers that care about the whole, that we can make those designs real.

Mark Shuttleworth
27 March 2012

Canonical
16 February 2012

The Unity design process (and how you can play a part in it)

Design Ubuntu

How is Unity designed?  How can I contribute to this process?  Why did you make thus and such decision? The Unity Design Team is frequently asked these questions, and this article aims to de-mystify our design process and highlight the different ways in which volunteer contributions can help improve the Ubuntu user...

Canonical
16 February 2012

Mark Shuttleworth
24 January 2012

Introducing the HUD. Say hello to the future of the menu.

Design Ubuntu

The HUD replaces traditional menus in applications targeting Unity. Say what you mean, instead of navigating through a tree of options. Initially the HUD is shaped as a fast and smart look-ahead search through menus, but over the next four releases, it will gain more sophisticated kinds of interaction.

Mark Shuttleworth
24 January 2012

Mark Shuttleworth
27 November 2011

Ubuntu TV discussions hot up

Design Ubuntu

Threads are coalescing around the concept of an Ubuntu TV experience, driven by Unity.

Mark Shuttleworth
27 November 2011

Mark Shuttleworth
16 August 2011

Dash takes shape for 11.10 Unity

Design Ubuntu

Feature freeze for 11.10 brings the likely look and feel of Unity for this release into focus. We’ve moved from Dash Places to Scopes and Lenses, introduced more sophisticated filtering and cleaned up some visual elements.

Mark Shuttleworth
16 August 2011

Canonical
3 March 2011

Introducing Overlay Scrollbars in Unity

Design Ubuntu

One of our goals in the Unity design effort is maximising immersion in content, and reducing the amount of chrome and clutter needed around that content. Unity’s new Overlay Scrollbars are a small but important detail in this bigger picture. Problem Today’s scrollbars are optimized for cursor driven UI but they became...

Canonical
3 March 2011

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