April 1st, 2011 byWe always knew Google Maps was good! Canonical and Ubuntu are a global organisation and there’s always somebody awake somewhere. Today that somebody was Jono Bacon, staying up late on the west coast of the United States. Before anyone in the UK was even awake there was a tweet saying that the Google satellites had spotted the early arrival of a yellow Narwhal in the River Thames just outside the London Millbank Tower Canonical offices. Google Maps did indeed prove its accuracy; when we looked out of the window from the 27th floor down towards Lambeth Bridge there was a visitor:
Narwhal visiting Lambeth Bridge, seen from the Canonical Offices.
In Ubuntu we like to publicly test everything, yesterday the hundreds of people working on Ubuntu released Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 1. Canonical’s head of PR has informed us that just like the release, the Narwhal visit has been carefully orchestrated as part of the press activities for the final Ubuntu 11.04 release later in April. This 1st visit is a “beta” run to recheck whale head-room clearances under the bridges at low-tide.
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Hmm, and I thought I’d see good photoshopping on the design blog
This isn’t photoshopped. All Narwhals are that big.
The problem is, there is no Photoshop for Ubuntu. What you see above is probably “Gimping”
x7UFWp AICFAT you’ve covered all the bases with this answer!
hi,
back to Unity again..
is there a possibility to make brand new look for calendar, network applet in Unity ? it should be redone to a more modern style imho..(i like new look in gnome-shell of these), but overall Unity is much better than Shell, so keep workin that good, specially on user interface and quick switchin to applications.
best regards
Jarek
Hey, Nice Joke, thanks for it
But, what is true, is that I can see Narwhals When I turn on the PC.
Is the Design Team ever going to change the Bootscreen?
it hasnt been changed since 10.04.
This is my try for Natty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrvlgxqKVcE
How do you like it?
christian, that boot screen is AWESOME is there any way i can get it??
+1
Ive already put a Download Link in the Video Description
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