Year: 2009
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First impressions of gnome-shell
GNOME Shell is the proposed interface for Gnome 3, it replaces the window manager, the panels at the top and bottom of the screen and everything that sits on them. It’s in the repositories for Karmic, install gnome-shell and then run gnome-shell –replace to give it a try. You should note that it’s still under heavy development and…
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Ubuntu One
The fact of the matter is there are proprietary drives in Ubuntu and you choose whether to use them or not, why should this service be any different? Dave I think the difference is that this is proprietary software (or at least the back end is) that is branded as Ubuntu. Personally I don’t have…
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Gwibber
I’m using gwibber for keeping up with identi.ca and twitter. I mainly use an eeepc while at home, so to get a couple more dents on screen I’ve recently been using the defaultsmall theme. This theme isn’t quite as nice to my eyes as the default theme though, it makes the background darker for one thing. I’ve…
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