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Designing in the open
By Anthony Dillon, 25 April 2017
Over the past year, a change has emerged in the design team here at Canonical: we’ve started designing our websites and apps in public GitHub repositories,...
Download Ubuntu Yakkety Yak 16.10 wallpaper
By Grazina Borosko, 20 October 2016
The Yakkety Yak 16.10 is released and now you can download the new wallpaper by clicking here. It’s the latest part of the set for the Ubuntu 2016 releases...
Convergent terminal
By Canonical, 15 August 2016
We have been looking at ways of making the Terminal app more pleasing, in terms of the user experience, as well as the visuals. I would like to share the work...
Web team hack day
By Anthony Dillon, 8 August 2016
Last week the developers in the web team swapped the office for the lobby of the hotel across the street. The day was geared up to allow us to leave our daily...
Developing for Vanilla v1
By Barry McGee, 29 July 2016
As Inayaili recently blogged, we are now working towards a goal of releasing Version one (v1) of Vanilla for early September. Maturity Vanilla was created...
QtDay 2016: Developing Ubuntu convergent apps with Qt
By Andrea Bernabei, 17 June 2016
QtDay is the only Italian event dedicated to Qt. It is held yearly by Develer and brings together company products that are developed using Qt, as well as Qt...
Wallpaper design for Xenial Xerus 16.04
By Grazina Borosko, 28 April 2016
April marks the release of Xerus 16.4 and with it we bring a new design of our iconic wallpaper. This post will take you through our design process and how we...
Trimming the fat from the Ubuntu online tour
By Barry McGee, 2 February 2016
Maybe, like me, you seen more of the inside of your gym in January than you had for the six months previous. New year, new diet, new me.. or something like...
Helsinki SDK sprint
By Femma, 10 December 2015
We arrived in Helsinki on Sunday evening, ready to start our week long SDK sprint on Monday. Our hotel was in a nice location, by the sea. The work stuff The...
Vanilla: theme wrapping
By Graham Bancroft, 23 November 2015
If you’ve been following our Vanilla framework series of blog posts you’ll be aware of why we needed this new framework and have a little insight into how...
Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day
By Canonical, 20 November 2015
Today we celebrate our amazing Ubuntu Community and show our appreciation for all the hard work put into making Ubuntu what it is today. Ubuntu is not just an...
Using Vanilla with Jekyll
By Anthony Dillon, 19 November 2015
We’re using NPM as Vanilla’s package manager. Which gives us a number of advantages such as, an easy way to install and update the CSS framework. This all...