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Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 16th March 2018
by Will Cooke on 16 March 2018
We’ve had a busy few weeks, and so this email is a roll up of what’s been going on in Desktopland. Last week we had a team sprint in Budapest where we got to...
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Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 22 January 2018
by Will Cooke on 22 January 2018
Here’s an update on what we’ve been working on over the last couple of weeks: GNOME We’ve been working on a patch for udisks to hide snaps from applications...
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Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: December 1, 2017
by Will Cooke on 1 December 2017
GNOME GNOME Disk Utility If you have snaps installed and open the Disks utility, your snaps appear as loop devices. We found this to be confusing and a bit...
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Ubuntu Desktop Weekly, Nov 3rd & 10th: Bionic daily images available
by Will Cooke on 10 November 2017
The big news this week is the availability of Bionic daily ISOs. As always, we’re beavering away on the desktop: GNOME We’ve started a conversation on the...
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Canonical joins GNOME Foundation Advisory Board
by Will Cooke on 1 November 2017
As you’re no doubt aware, the default Ubuntu desktop is now running GNOME Shell following the 17.10 release and so we naturally have a great deal of interest...
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Fresh Snaps from September 2017
by David Callé on 18 October 2017
October, it’s almost time for a new Ubuntu release! This month’s pick of the top snaps is all about spending relaxing time with your computer: playing games,...
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Switching from Unity to Gnome-Shell: first challenges
by Iain Lane on 3 July 2017
I work at Canonical, on the desktop team. The team works on Ubuntu Desktop, publishing a release every six months containing the fruits of our efforts — or at...
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Ubuntu Desktop – GNOME Extensions poll results
by Ken VanDine on 12 June 2017
Recently, with the help from our friends at OMG! Ubuntu, we ran a poll to collect data on usefulness of some GNOME Shell extensions. We limited the poll to a...
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Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: June 9, 2017
by Will Cooke on 9 June 2017
GNOME We’ve made the decision to switch to using GNOME Display Manager (GDM) instead of LightDM. We had planned to try LightDM, and based on our...
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Guadec Day 1
by Canonical on 26 July 2010
This week I am at Guadec in Den Haag. For those less familiar with working on open-source projects Guadec is the annual gathering of developers, users and...