Picturing the end of the road for another cycle
First of all a big thank you to everyone who submitted a wallpaper to our collection for the Oneiric…
Posts from August 2011
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History of the Alphabet (Hebrew, Greek, Cyrillic, Latin, Arabic)
The BBC just put up a five-minute audio slideshow “The story of how we got our alphabets” about the development…
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Quick wallpaper update
Just a quick update for those of you who are interested. As we speak the contributors whose images were selected…
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Dash takes shape for 11.10 Unity
Feature freeze for 11.10 brings the likely look and feel of Unity for this release into focus. We’ve moved from Dash Places to Scopes and Lenses, introduced more sophisticated filtering and cleaned up some visual elements.
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Ubuntu Arabic, in print!
A beta of Ubuntu Font Family Arabic, in print as part of the testing and debugging process for the Arabic coverage.
The magazine is an intriguing tri-lingual production published by the Cultural Office of Saudi Arabia in Germany … German and English articles using Latin script at one cover and Arabic from the other.
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Thunderbird & Evolution Usability Testing
Recently we hired an external consultant to compare the usability of 2 email clients: Thunderbird and Evolution. I have taken…