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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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Announcing the User Experience Advocates Project

by Canonical on 10 June 2010

After working on paper cuts for a year, I realized how disorganized many open source projects affecting Ubuntu are when it comes to improving user experience....