I do not use Ubuntu for various reasons that are now irrelevant, and although they have made somewhat controversial decisions at times, I cannot help but acknowledge that at times they deserve uproarious applause.
Yes, Ubuntu It is worrying about the user experience and they have been inserting a series of changes that at least I have loved. Many may already know what I am talking about, but it is worth pointing out.
Borderless windows
I repeat, I do not use Ubuntu but I must say: Thank you, thank you very much… I don't know about you but those little clear edges on Ubuntu windows made me sick. Someone has noticed this and the problem has been corrected and the result, I repeat, I love it.
This is one of the things that I love about Oxygen en KDE, that we can adjust the edges of the windows to our liking. And I'm not saying it for nothing, for the record, nor do I intend to compare, I only mention it for everyone's knowledge.
New Desktop Background
You will agree with me that one of the main things that we change when we install an Operating System, whatever it is, is the Desktop Background.
I think this time around, it would be the first time that the default Ubuntu Desktop Background could last me several weeks, in case I used it, of course.
But beware, don't think you will see a new color palette. According to the words of Michal Izydorczyk, one of the members of the Ubuntu Design team, one of the things that gets recognized when Ubuntu is installed is the Desktop background.
“For the last two weeks we have been working on the new Ubuntu Wallpaper. This has become an integral part of the Ubuntu brand, strong colors and gradients are powerful and important elements. We realized that when looking at someone's laptop, it really screams UBUNTU. "
Therefore, although this time it is a bit more sober and elegant for my taste, we will continue to see the same spirit and concept of the previous ones.
The Community Wallpapers they are also beautiful in many cases, and we can download them from Launchpad To try them.
New lock screen
Although it is not a change to launch rockets, nor do I consider it relevant, the new lock screen achieves an integration in terms of appearance with the login screen. Simple and elegant.
Botton line
In short, in order not to extend this article any further, I think the guys from Ubuntu they are on the right track. In the end, as they say, what does not enter through the eyes, does not enter anywhere and it is good that they care about offering a pleasant experience to new and old users.
I don't know if many of you can remember it, but precisely the changes in the artwork, it was what Ubuntu He had always promised and the users had waited, and we are already seeing them.
For new users I suppose this is luxury
And the new icon pack? so much that it was speculated that for this version they would be ready -.-
It is not something so simple to do, it is like wanting to rush the guys who are now in charge of plasma artwork, you have no idea how many icons there are in a system, it is not just the app icons but the myme-type icons, the directional ones, among many others.
And you have to make icons for sizes from 22 to 48 pixels (obviously not all sizes) and scalable.
Yes, it is so difficult that that's why there are so many designers putting out their own icon packs, with their PPAs to install them directly by terminal in Ubuntu. : /
There are very few that are complete. Anyway, as pandev92 says, the ubuntu ones always take much longer than they say they will.
It gives me that they will give them to you in 16.04 XD…., When something is promised by ubuntu, add two years to the date that they promised xd
They will probably appear in the first Beta with Unity, which comes out on March 27th. I imagine they do it this way for "marketing" reasons.
I liked everything, now I just need a new set of icons. 🙂
Sometimes I read negative comments about Ubuntu… it amazes me how the world changes. I'm not saying this is an entry against Ubuntu and that is beside the point, but you made it clear that you don't use it. Very clear. The point is that Ubuntu as a distribution has a great advantage and the hipster community does not like that. That's why they stopped using it. Yes, I am aware that Richard Stallman hates them too and has made public his disdain for this distribution. I am also aware that Ubuntu has certain things that could be considered adware / malware or whatever you want to call it. Outside of all the good and bad that Ubuntu may have, it is still one more distribution, just as customizable as the others and in which you can choose what you want and what you don't want to use. No? So why was I using a 12.04 version of Ubuntu without Unity and with Openbox? That can be done just like with any other distribution. Why did I choose it? Simple: I wanted a stable distribution in which I had accessibility to most of the tools that Linux provides us in its official repositories and I think Ubuntu is the one that most meets most of those needs. Today's hipster kids don't like Ubuntu because they listen and read atrocious things, because they don't like Unity, because it has malware, because Richard said not to use it and that whoever used it was going to be expelled from his freedom club for life, sending them to a strange dimension where internet elders keep dial-up and can only access latinchat (it doesn't sound so bad); But the truth is, that's what it's all about: freedom. Canonical made a default desktop. You do not like? Do not use it. Are you bothered by malware that exists inside your desktop by default? Uninstall them or use the "minimal" version and from there parts to configure. That easy. Throwing dirt in Canonical's face is that we discredit the precious freedom that we defend so much (we must also remember that there is a big difference between open source and free software; Ubuntu is open source). I am not to judge and everyone to use what they want, but the stability of this system so popular in the Linux world and its usability is making Linux have a bigger place on the map and I think we should all appreciate that. Out of everything they have done, what if with Amazon and I don't know what else, do you think you don't have to sacrifice a little to achieve what you want to achieve? At least the Ubuntu friends were wise to leave us the option to turn off, turn on or uninstall these options that bother us so much as are the suggestions from amazon, the music store, etc. Freedom is the option that we all have to do what we want with our system and I think that, outside of Unity, in general it is still respected in Ubuntu.
If you think I'm a Hipster kid, you've got the wrong person. I've been using GNU / Linux for 7 years, a couple of which I used Ubuntu and I have plenty of reasons to think right, or wrong, as appropriate.
It seems to me that this article, far from throwing dirt in Canonical's face, what it does is favor my opinion about Ubuntu. And yes, in your comment you mention some of the things that people hate / love about Ubuntu, but you missed the most important one for me: I just DON'T LIKE IT.
I've said it a lot of times, Unity seems great to me in many ways, but I don't like it in others. And it's not precisely because of Unity that I don't use Ubuntu, on the contrary, I think it's one of the things I would use it for.
So please Darko, I think about it before accusing anyone of being Hipster, and therefore not using Ubuntu, because you do not know the reasons and motives of each one.
Excuse me, elav, but I'm not saying Hipster for you or for anyone in particular because I don't know anyone. What I wanted to do was criticize the community in general because if there is something wrong with us, it is criticizing everything that we don't like just for the sake of it, especially Ubuntu users. Yes, you mention in your writing and you make it clear that you do not use Ubuntu and anyone who reads it may think that using it is a bad thing, and not because of what you say you use it or not but because of how you say it and reiterate it, but it is only one wrong impression that I or any reader could get. My comment is not to criticize you because you are not even badmouthing Ubuntu; Nor is it my intention to accuse you or anyone, but as they say on my beautiful island of horror (I mean, charm) "he who gets itchy is because he eats chili." I repeat, nothing I said (or the Hipster thing) was said for you, or for any writer of this blog which I visit daily or for anyone in particular. What's more, I thought that I was going to be the first comment because when I entered and read there were none, so I did not say it because of any other comment I read before posting my comment. I thought that I could express what I think, since I almost never do, and maybe someone could read and have a similar, different point of view, etc., which I could also share; It was never my intention to judge anyone, on the contrary, everyone should be free to use whatever they want.
You are in all your freedom to express what you want, it will be missing more, but sometimes it is necessary to read again and again what we write before publishing a comment, because our words can be misinterpreted.
I did not get stung, but this part of the comment is, where you say:
It has nothing to do with the post, because whether I use Ubuntu or not, in this case it is not relevant, since the objective of my post is to point out that they are doing something right.
However, I repeat, I do not think that many users stop using Ubuntu for being Hipster, whether they are users of this Community or not.
regards
Elav, I don't think Darko "accused" you of anything, it was another opinion like yours. I've been following this blog for a long time, and I clearly see that most of the content is anti-ubuntu, that's my perception, even so I read it daily because I find it interesting, but I agree with Darko, I don't think I need the negative comments, ubuntu is not a closed package, we can leave it as we want, as with any other distro, I understand that you do not like it, but was it necessary to repeat it so much?
Apparently it was the way he put the comment, as I said in the comment above yours, that made me respond. It is normal that in this blog, as in hundreds of others, people lash out at Ubuntu, but it is not the case in this post, where all I do is favor it.
Thanks for stopping by and commenting
anti ubuntu? if you hardly ever talk about ubuntu here.
I've been using Linux for 12 years and ubuntu since it appeared (4.10), and I understand what you're saying, at first ubuntu was just Debian with more applications and default settings inside the CD (iso), and that was good since they took a good distro and made it more accessible to users.
Later, when I stopped depending on Debian and became an independent development, it was excellent, since they were oriented towards the user, leaving a more friendly distro, but with things that the most "traditionalists" did not like, I still remember when they complained about the UI for the configurations, saying that they were not necessary since they were made by console, I remember a few who complained about the repositories saying that it was not necessary since with the source code it was more than enough.
And since the appearance of unity, many complain about some of its characteristics where canonical can collect some data from users, others complain about the heavy environment in terms of the amount of resources it consumes, among the latter I include myself, but I know it can be optimized.
but ultimately users complain against Ubuntu is because of the few options that the non-expert user has, and I will say that it would be good to be able to choose which "lents" to have active or not, that in an easy way for any user, regardless of your level of experience, you could choose the active lents in unity, as well as other things within ubuntu.
Actually that's very simple, you can choose them in the dash / plugin (or something like that .. now I don't remember)… but there are thousands of «lents» ahahahaha, and deactivating each one by hand is a pain of ……… .. They could have put something like "you want to install lents of ... blah blah" and thus some categories, in the end there would be the lenses that one wanted ... probably few.
Regards!
I share your opinion completely. But it is really annoying that you can remove ... the damn amazon, etc. it's like a bad joke, it's really rare to see that in an operating system that emerged so much in the linux world.
But yes, there is a widespread criticism of Ubuntu, and from which I am slowly healing. I had moved away from it and I think that for my notebook it is not so bad 😛
And above all, IN COMPLETE AGREEMENT that Ubuntu opened the doors to many people.
Ubuntu delays MIR again.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTYyODg
I'm not shitting me, the phone that they gave to mark and that he shows for me that he runs with wayland and they didn't tell him anything xD and now for the 14.04 surprise motherfucker! We still haven't got a damn about the mir xD [yaoming]
Wayland is a protocol. Apparently the ubuntu developers said that modifying Mir to use the Wayland protocol wouldn't be that difficult.
Hahahaha .. +1 .. ..I think a few expect that result .. xP
no mistakes are made on Linux ...
-in canonical-
- «… and this is the new 14.04 distro» -
- «but I see that you forgot to include the window borders» -
- «Um ... ... no, it's the new look, more minimalist and modern ...» -
-the next day-
ubuntu strives to improve its appearance
I agree with you, they are very obvious changes, you see them and you say "why haven't they done it before".
I liked them, they add elegance to the desk, it gives the appearance that everything is more integrated, it feels minimalist and even light. Sure, it's all about personal appearance and insight.
I have it installed in a test partition and it is the one that I am using to play, since my ATI card worked without the need for proprietary drivers.
This is not new, in Canaima4 it is implemented.
Only you noticed those edges. As much as I look, I hardly find a difference. I suppose you mean that slight shading which, by the way, looked pretty (and I still see why in Precise it still is).
Maybe .. It is that I pay a lot of attention to those small details, something that in OS X they know how to do well, that's why they are so advanced in this matter 😀
No, wait, I already noticed. Wow, even each image includes a magnification to highlight it. It's amazing how little attention I pay when I look. : S
You're right, it looks ugly, but it's not too noticeable. Unless you intend to look at it, you will most likely not even realize that it is there.
On the other hand, they also removed the shading from the corners and now the windows without shading and the upper bar with shading still clash.
Well, I like the changes, I used ubuntu a while ago it was different for a while I have been using the new Salamander and it is nice: 3
Well I see no difference between borderless and borderless and the images are too small to appreciate anything.
Someone better explain to me about the edges…. : - /
"Re professional", a friend would say how this LTS is being left to them and it was not for less considering the importance of this version. At least in my environment I am seeing that Ubuntu is finally drawing attention among the common user and his "problem even to turn off his computer" with the arrival of Metro in Windows 8
Look at the enlargements. The boxes at the bottom right of each screenshot. At the top of you can see a white border. In the one below it is no longer.
What they have done is remove the frame from the right, left and bottom sides of the windows. Only the title bar remains as decoration (as they call these frames) of the windows.
My previous comment was a reply to Yoyo.
Excellent, in my opinion it looks great with those improvements.
Excellent, for me this is one of Ubuntu's strong points. Although I love Linux, many times the designs it has stinks me, as is obvious because the people who develop (especially GNU) do not know about design, nor do they have why. But I think it's great that some distributions pay attention to that issue.
Greetings.
Someone always takes a desktop background with those tones and with the characteristic animal of the version ... The day that in each new version that desktop background comes out representing each version I will install ubuntu in a virtual machine just to see how it looks cute 🙂
I would change other things, such as that smart glasses look for what comes out of the code - normally they do not match what you are looking for - and as for desktop backgrounds, I like them with colors that do not leave you blind - eliminating whites and derivatives, and without drawings or anything like that. And above all, STABILITY and EFFICIENCY without those two premises they can already go around as they want, that I will not even approach Ubuntu.
That that, fuhh, away.
They should be improving the compatibility with ATI graphics cards, because in my opinion when I install my ati graphics card in windows, it goes fast, but when I install it in Ubuntu, it becomes very slow in a way that one says, this does not seem GNU / Linux how slow it is, I even hang my windows, for that reason I stopped using ubuntu, I get along better with debian, it does not put much pereque when it comes to installing the ATI graphics. but if the ubuntu theme seems nice and interesting to me.
I don't use Ubuntu but it was a very good idea to remove the borders, I personally use Openbox and I use it without borders as it gives it a finer touch> http://i.imgur.com/UxHTYXz.png but in the end everyone decides whether with or without:]
nice!
What I would like is for the global menu to be like on Mac, that when it has the focus of an application the menus are always visible.
Another thing I don't like is the blurring of the application name and the menus.
I downloaded the background a few days ago, and I love it. It's funny that I like Ubuntu's default backgrounds (with purple tones and all that) so much that I put them right away, and leave them there for a long time. You have that cool minimalism.
"Hating Ubuntu is very mainstream"
-Linus Torvalds
If something wanted to change in Ubuntu, it would be that they give us the possibility to resize the icons of the Unity Bar at will, since it only allows them to be reduced to 32 and I think that smaller ones would be more functional. With the rest I have no objections.
Does it reach 16? 😀
The elegant and "professional" are only judgments of our facts based on prejudice.
Create an OS that kicks 1000 all over everyone else, and the theme and icons they use will be considered de facto by people as "professionals."
Very few people complained (some enlightened yes) about the XP issue, and it was quite different from what we are seeing today. There was a consensus that as XP was good the icons were good too. If it had been shit the topic would be shit.
Hello everyone, because personally I have been using Ubuntu 14.04 for a month now, I don't remember an Ubuntu installation from 11.04, not even 12.04; but I must comment that this version has enchanted me, it is going very well, very fluid, its aesthetics have improved a lot, especially with the reduction of the bar icons to size 16, it no longer looks monstrous, and the best thing is that even when it doesn't It is the final version, it is better than 12.04 when it first came out, I think that to the detractors of Unity (I count myself in them) with 14.04 it is a good time to retract, the environment is pleasant, fluid, stable, and with all the benefits Ubuntu that we all know.
Greetings.
I have suffered from GNU + Linux for 10 years and Ubuntu 14.04 is the first GNU + Linux operating system that really does what it is supposed to (for the purpose it seeks): IT WORKS. It does not interfere with your daily use of the machine, but rather accompanies you in each task. And, although it sounds very strange what I am going to say, many distrust when reading me: the development version is ABSOLUTELY STABLE AND SOLID! Oh, and very fast !! It makes me remember when I used Arch + Musca 😀
Two fundamental questions that were left out of this article:
1. the possibility of integrating the application menus into the application window frame itself is a fucking game changer, a marvel of functionality and practicality
2. After asking so much, they returned the function of minimizing the application window in use with a click on its icon!
Possibly, this time, 14.04 is a very good release 😀
(Just in case I knock on wood ...)
Hopefully these changes will bring more people to the gnu / linux world.
this looks much better than ubuntu http://www.noobslab.com/2014/04/deepin-2014-alpha-has-been-released-for.html