This week was a short one in the UK but it seems as though we set out to fill it with as much as we possibly could! For a start we hit beta this week. If you’ve not upgraded to Maverick, you really should. We all have and are enjoying the updated Radiance and Ambiance themes. On the subject of arrivals we also welcomed Lilly to our web team this week – we’ll set her up on the blog in the coming weeks and coax a post or two out of her.
Elsewhere in the world of the web Ale asked you guys why you use Ubuntu. We’d love more input into this thread so if you have ideas leave them in the comments and join in the conversation. Another post which got a lot of interest this week was Otto’s post about the default wallpaper. This explains in some detail the idea behind our approach to this design and we’ll be updating you and hopefully roping some of into helping us make our grander ideas a reality in the next cycle.
Away from the blog we’ve been busily working on the font family which is extremely close to being ready to share more widely. We have a few bugs we want to review and in the next week we’ll be adding milestones to the project and assigning some bugs to future releases so everyone can see what we’re focusing on fixing in time for 10.10. The release is by no means finished in October. Much will be added and refined over time. More on that from the Dalton Maag team soon.
Maverick on netbook and desktop is also taking up a lot of our time as we work closely with the platform and DX teams to make sure all the work we do and that is contributed by you guys in the community, is rolled into the next release. Unity in particular is coming together and if you’ve not tried it yet you really should!
We also wished Charline “Bon Voyage” as she set off to Japan to take part in the EPIC conference and she’ll be talking about her experiences once she’s back from there.
And lastly, while we’re on the subject of travel, I got an e-mail this morning from Rick. He’s apparently still traveling and bumped into Jane at Linux Con. I await with interest the next mail I get from my missing statue! :)
Have a great weekend – especially our lucky American cousins who get a nice long weekend!
Hey, It was a good week indeed. Can I ask you something? I saw the new beta themes and they look great, the font is awesome but, do you really like that huge size? I ran a live cd today and it’s such a waste of space! Don’t you have plans to reconfigure it to a smaller size before 10.10.10?
Hey there, first post here. Glad I stumbled across the blog, I love seeing development in action. I actually had a question, theme-related, so this seemed like as good a place as any to ask. I’m trying to do some editing of the dust theme, in hopes a change or two can get slipped in before the proper release… the biggest issue is the arrows to the left of any file tree (such as in a player like clementine, or the bookmarks sidebar of firefox). Ambiance uses very sleek arrows, while dust… well, honestly, they’re almost comically large. I think perhaps the value to set these is in the metacity-theme-1.xml file, as making dust use ambiance’s metacity shrinks the arrows (along with a few more humorous changes). Is there any chance someone (dev or otherwise) could clue me in to what value I’d need to change/add in this file to use the nicer arrow buttons? Thanks so much in advance, and great work on the default theme(s)!
I really wish you guys could bump up the contrast on the scroll bar for the Ambiance and Radiance themes. I have a difficult time seeing the scrollbar against the background and I’m only 22 and have good eyes. The scroll bar is pretty much white (#f2f1f0) while the background is light grey (#E4E2E1). Can you comment on this please?
It’s looking lovely.
But those greyed out menu items are impossible to read.