Desktop archives
108 posts from 2017
Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: July 7, 2017
By Will Cooke, 7 July 2017
GNOME We’ve been working on the migration and transition processes for users going from Unity 7 to GNOME Shell. We’ve worked on migrating favourites, the...
User acceptance testing of snaps, with Travis CI
By elopio, 5 July 2017
Travis CI offers a great continuous integrationservice for the projects hosted in GitHub. With it you can run tests, deliverartifacts and deploy services on...
Switching from Unity to Gnome-Shell: first challenges
By Iain Lane, 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...
Build, test, and publish snap packages using snapcraft
By Guest, 28 June 2017
This is a guest post by Ricardo Feliciano, Developer Evangelist at CircleCI. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact...
Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: June 23, 2017
By Will Cooke, 23 June 2017
GNOME We’ve migrated ubuntu-session to a new unity-session package. This means that the default session is GNOME Shell and people can install Unity 7 and its...
Distributing KeePassXC as a snap
By Thibaut Rouffineau, 19 June 2017
This is a guest post by Jonathan White (find him on Github) one of the developers behind keepassxc. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please...
Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: June 16, 2017
By Will Cooke, 16 June 2017
GNOME Further theme fixes have been made in Artful to get GNOME Shell and Ambiance looking just right. Network Manager is updated to 1.8. It is currently...
Gitter and Mattermost: two desktop apps for your future chat platform
By David Callé, 15 June 2017
In the hunt for the perfect communication platform or protocol, a lot of companies are experimenting, which can lead to some confusion as not everyone is...
Project Sputnik: crazy idea to community driven developer systems
By Guest, 14 June 2017
This is a guest post by Barton George from Dell. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-iot@canonical.com Five years ago, I...
Vectr: a fresh take on vector graphics edition on Linux
By David Callé, 13 June 2017
There is new desktop app available in the Snap store: Vectr. A free vector graphics editor for the Web and the Linux desktop Following the Inkscape snap,...
Ubuntu Desktop – GNOME Extensions poll results
By Ken VanDine, 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...
Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: June 9, 2017
By Will Cooke, 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...