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Blog posts tagged
"Design"

Canonical
31 May 2010

Last week in London and Brussels

Ubuntu Design

I spent the first part of last week in a small room in London with Andrea Cimitan, Daniel Foré and Otto Greenslade working on the amazing Murrine theme engine and the Ambiance (and Radiance) themes.In a few days we accomplished quite a lot: a new expa ...

Matthew Paul Thomas
27 May 2010

The keyboard menu

Ubuntu Design

A new keyboard menu will replace both the keyboard layout toggle from Ubuntu’s doomed notification area, and the IBus menu for choosing a keyboard input method. ...

Alejandra Obregon
26 May 2010

New Ubuntu and Canonical sites

Ubuntu Notes

The new Ubuntu and Canonical sites went live today. As well as the visual refresh to include the new brand, the objective was to bring the sites up-to-date and provide a framework for them to evolve. ...

Canonical
26 May 2010

The challenge of understanding icons

Ubuntu Notes

Icons are very peculiar images. They are both pictorial and functional. An icon is literally a picture, e.g., of a magnifying glass, and at the same time it represents a function, i.e., the query in a search. So, one and the same image is meant both to attract attention to itself and to facilitate action. ...

Canonical
22 May 2010

Colour management

Ubuntu Design

I’ve been looking for a local store which offers a colour sprectromitor and chanced upon the spyder3. I have to say that it is a total let-down. It doesn’t work on Linux to begin with. I feared this going in but the gracious return policy at the s ...

Marcus Haslam
20 May 2010

Talk Type

Ubuntu Notes

At the recent Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS), we invited Type Designer Bruno Maag from Dalton Maag to talk about the new open-source font design development for the Ubuntu operating system (name yet to be finalised but there’s a good chance it could be called Ubuntu : )). Bruno gave two talks – the first, an ...

Canonical
17 May 2010

Ubuntu Maverick UDS group photo made with the Hugin Panorama Creator

Ubuntu Design

Due to the weather and the layout of the hotel grounds at the Ubuntu Developer Summit for 10.10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) it was impossible to take the group photo outside and from above (which I prefer). The next best place was the auditorium in which the ...

Canonical
12 May 2010

Opinions. Have them.

Ubuntu Design

Typography from Ronnie Bruce on Vimeo. ...

Canonical
10 May 2010

So long already? Nah! :)

Ubuntu Design

Today saw the start of the Ubuntu Developer Summit for our next release Maverick Meerkat. This sentiment on the final slide of Mark’s presentation will hopefully be the way that we bid a fond farewell to at the end of this insane week and I may well be motivated to blog about the craziness that ...

Canonical
10 May 2010

Hello, Unity

Ubuntu Design

This is an early version of Unity, what will hopefully become the new interface for Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10:Unity comprises:A launcher that makes opening and switching between applications delightful.A panel where indicators behave uniformly.A view of your installed applications, with Ubuntu Software Center integration.A view of your ...

Matthew Paul Thomas
6 May 2010

A unified menu bar for Ubuntu Netbook Edition

Ubuntu Notes

Using a single menu bar at the top of the screen, instead of separate menu bars inside each window, seems like a pretty simple change. But it’s more complex than it appears, and we’ll need lots of help. ...

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