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Ubuntu One Music Store, my answers

Ubuntu One Music Store, my answers

Since I posted about Canonical’s Music Store project, a few comments rained down from above. I’ll abuse my blog to give some answers.

Oh, and you forgot to say “Welcome back, Stefano” ! ;-)
Michael:
This would be great, …

Ubuntu One Music Store

Ubuntu One Music Store

For those who don’t know, the Lucid UDS has begun today.

One of the most interesting yet controversial meetings is this: the Ubuntu One Music Store. What it will be is currently left to the imagination since …

Some notifications WIP

Some notifications WIP

Macslow, who is working on notifications,  recently posted some screencast of his last progresses.

The first image shows a colored title bar upon every notification. While the chance to display the urgency of notifications has been discussed, this work is just meant …

Hands off the Gimp

Hands off the Gimp

Really, you wouldn’t dare..

rickspencer3 proposes pulling the gimp from the CD:

It takes up a lot of space that we need for couchdb, etc…
F-Spot has key features, like crop and red-eye removal
It’s a power user tool, users shouldn’t stumble into it

Discussion points …

Orange icon, we love you

Orange icon, we love you

As many of you already know, Jaunty brought a small but significant change in the Ubuntu user interface: the beloved updates icon doesn’t show up anymore. In its place, the Update Manager will automatically open under the current windows.

The pop under …

Ubuntu Designers survey

Ubuntu Designers survey

Let’s give them some useful feedback, take the survey !

Interactive notifications mockup

Interactive notifications mockup

Hello all, I sent a little proposal to the Ayatana mailing list.

While I’m waiting for feedback from them, I thought I could just copy-paste it here and know what you think about it.

I had an idea for notifications which …

Ubuntu designers are on identi.ca

Ubuntu designers are on identi.ca

Seems like I’m not alone on identi.ca. :)

The Ubuntu designers team is now aboard as well, as this dent says:
Starting today, we’re using Twitter and Identica to collect feedback from people using Ubuntu.
If you’d like to follow their adventures you …

A new roadmap for the App Center

A new roadmap for the App Center

This is a follow up to the previous post about the App Center.

As noted in a previous post (that one too long to be read), the …

Ubuntu AppStore in the workings ?

Ubuntu AppStore in the workings ?

We live in cool times. Everybody’s up creating an AppStore of some kind. After Apple brought out the concept, Nokia, Microsoft and even Sun (really !) are hurrying up putting together their ones.

Many Open Source supporters have noted again and again, that Linux repositories are pretty much the equivalent of an AppStore. Interestingly enough, …

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