Ubuntu

New focus for wallpaper submissions

by Canonical on 21 August 2012

Quantal is well on the way to being the great release we’ve come to expect from Ubuntu so it’s time to add to that sheen with a set of quality wallpapers from...

Ubuntu Online Tour

by Anthony Dillon on 9 August 2012

We realise that changing Operating System (OS) is a big thing for anyone thinking of testing something out. That becomes a huge barrier for people trying out...

Introducing web apps

by Canonical on 23 July 2012

As you might have heard from the blogosphere, we are going to start to ship our take on web apps. Let me take the opportunity to explain to you some of the...

Ubuntu Developer Summit: Design Theatre

by Canonical on 7 May 2012

Normally the Ubuntu/Canonical Design Team are busy working on our own projects, but it makes a really good change to work on other Free Software design...

Watch out for Ubuntu! The E-Pebble smartwatch

by Canonical on 19 April 2012

In the year 2000 IBM showed off the WatchPad, a computer on your wrist, but one perhaps ahead of its time and still needing a little bit of design-love. Of...

Berlin: Typobau: Ubuntu Arabic Ausstellung/Exhibition

by Canonical on 19 April 2012

Some of original sketches for Ubuntu Arabic are about to go on display in Berlin! We’ve talked before about the work done by Rayan Abdullah on drawing and...

System status menu refinements in Ubuntu 12.10

by Matthew Paul Thomas on 13 April 2012

For Ubuntu 12.04, we’re planning to merge the user and system menus, make major changes to the messaging menu, introduce a new sync menu, and retire the...

Holistic UI is smarter UX

by Mark Shuttleworth on 27 March 2012

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...

The Pangolin wallpaper selection takes flight

by Canonical on 23 March 2012

For another cycle a selection of images has been put forward for inclusion in Ubuntu. As there have been some questions on other blogs about the process I...

Task switching in Ubuntu, and a introduction to ‘The Spread’

by Canonical on 16 March 2012

Introduction to task switching A key part of any operating system user interface is how it enables the user to switch between multiple tasks. In most desktop...

Choosing, moving, wallpapers

by Canonical on 6 March 2012

All the way back in January we kicked off the submissions process for the next released of Ubuntu. We did this using Flickr and since then the group has been...

Notes from the Mobile World Congress 2012

by Canonical on 5 March 2012

Ubuntu and Canonical had a very strong presence at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The main attraction was our Ubuntu for Android prototype...