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Third update to the Ubuntu Light Themes

Still Andrea Cimitan, still good news for you šŸ™‚ This is a small blog post to list few of the changes we did to light-themes: Menuitem speedup, hurray!!! šŸ˜€ 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

Charactersets

In this latest post discussing development of the Ubuntu family of fonts, Bruno discusses scope, charactersets and what’s coming as part of the Ubuntu typeface. Where do you begin, where do you stop? In the case of the Ubuntu font project, the second part of the question is easily answered – when all the glyphs

Meerkats like the sun?!

Today I got another e-mail from a statue. There’s a perfectly normal sentence … This time from a beach where Rick says he’s having an amazing time relaxing after his conference! So what have we learned so far, apart from the fact that an unattended Meerkat is likely to wander off if left for too

Exciting things in the post!

A couple of months back Marcus and I got a call from a magazine in Japan who wanted to produce stickers for Ubuntu. We’d _just_ signed off the new logo and word mark and so we collaborated back and forth and finally yesterday the finished article arrived! And here are the lovely stickers! They look

We are hiring: Design Engineer

We are looking for a Design Engineer with superb technical and communication skills to join the Design Team. Is that you?

This week in design – 3 September 2010

This week was a short one in the UK but it seems as though we set out to fill it with as much as we possibly could! For a start we hit beta this week. If you’ve not upgraded to Maverick, you really should. We all have and are enjoying the updated Radiance and Ambiance

In Brazil?!

Came in this morning to a mail from Rick, my Meerkat who went for a walk a little while ago. Apparently he was giving a keynote at Linuxcon!! More as I get it

Just an average day in 2014

While I’m not convinced that Sweden will actually win the world cup there’s lots to like about this ā€œfive minutes into the futureā€ look at how we might share content and interact with devices in a few years time. I’m setting a reminder in my calendar. I’ll catch you in 5 years, see if we

Happy Beta day everyone!

Happy Beta Release day one and all. If you’ve not yet upgraded surely now’s the time

Ubuntu default wallpaper

So, the default wallpaper… My initial vision: Seeing so many screenshots of the Ubuntu desktop during the second to last release all sporting identical backdrops, made me wonder: wouldn’t it be amazing if all our users received (or evolved) subtly different wallpapers – not radically enough to dilute the intent but just enough to become

Building Apps for the Cloud: How KnowledgeTree Used Ubuntu for Rapid Development of Its SaaS Offering

Would you like to find out about how Ubuntu is being deployed in the cloud space? Would you like to see how KnowledgeTree uses Ubuntu for its SaaS offering? If so, please join KnowledgeTree and Canonical on Wednesday 8 September 2010 at 11 am Pacific (2 pm Eastern) for a joint webinar. Enjoy an informative

Raw Photo Treatment Photos and More

I just uploaded a few examples of the ā€œrawā€ photos taken recently at the Canonical London office.Ā Hopefully some of these photos, when properly edited, will help define the future Canonical/Ubuntu photo treatment.Ā Thanks to all those who agre

On being famous…

I called the registrar’s office the other day to ask a question. The person on the phone was very helpful and quickly answered my question. In order to do so, he asked me for my name, which I told him. He started making odd ā€œhrmā€ noises and repeating m

This week in design – 27 August 2010

Frozen in time (c) Alyssa Nicole via Flickr This week we caught a chill in the form of our UI Freeze. That meant that from here on we should only be fixing bugs in the next release of Ubuntu. A highlight of the design contributions this week was the wonderful user contributed wallpapers! 17 images

Boo-yah!!!

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

Second update to the Ubuntu Light themes

Hi guys I’m Andrea Cimitan! šŸ˜‰ Sorry for the delay but here we are, with an abundance of updates for Ambiance and its complementary bright theme, Radiance! It has been a great couple of weeks for me, where I continued working jointly with our visionary design lead Otto Greenslade, who I would like to thank