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We can haz k
Tue, 03/30/2010 - 18:27 | by nixternalWe got it! What you ask? The missing letter “K” in the new font that is part of the whole rebranding process for Ubuntu and family. I got home from enjoying the beautiful weather here in Chicago and good ol’ Jonathan Riddell asked if I could make a new Plymouth theme for Kubuntu using the new logo. 30 seconds later, and we have the following:
Updated Kubuntu Plymouth Theme
Tue, 03/30/2010 - 01:35 | by nixternalI have updated the Kubuntu Plymouth theme. You can view it HERE.
Enjoy!!!
Kubuntu Plymouth Theme
Sun, 03/28/2010 - 00:02 | by nixternalTonight I quickly threw together a Plymouth theme for Kubuntu. I borrowed the ubuntu-logo theme and edited it to fit Kubuntu better by changing the background colors, the color of the progress dots, and added a glowing Kubuntu logo. The logo is temporary as we await our new branding logos. As soon as we get that, we will put those in, and tweak the theme as needed.
I am aware of the clipped edges in the following screenshot, and this will be fixed in subsequent releases.
String Freeze Is In Effect
Wed, 03/24/2010 - 22:54 | by nixternalAhh, my favorite time of the release, Documentation String Freeze. With every release, us Kubuntu folks seem to struggle a bit, but this time, we have done pretty damn good. We did a complete rewrite of our documentation, getting rid of the old KDE3 documentation. And after doing that, I am just extending the freeze on Kubuntu documentation almost 24 hours. This is going to give us time to have the documentation gone through by Carl, our amazing editor-in-chief who has done a kick ass job.
Desktop Help Summit 2010 Pictures Available
Tue, 03/23/2010 - 17:13 | by nixternalThanks to Silke “If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, then it’s a duck” McCance for taking pictures during the entire weekend and uploading them.
Desktop Help Summit 2010 Complete
Sun, 03/21/2010 - 23:17 | by nixternalWhat an amazing weekend! First off, I really want to thank the following people:
One of these days – UDS on the moon
Sun, 03/21/2010 - 12:18 | by nixternalPhil Bull, the amazing Ubuntu Documentation writer, says he wants stuff on the left and UDS on the moon, so this is just for him, while he waits for the manual to be released!
Qemu, Qemu-KVM, VirtualBox, play nice!
Thu, 03/18/2010 - 12:39 | by nixternalLast night I was working on getting some screenshots of Kubuntu for the Karmic to Lucid upgrade documentation. I typically use Qemu for all of my virtualization needs because: a) it is convenient, b) it is fast, and c) both a and b. One thing I was noticing last night in Qemu was the default wallpaper for KDE SC 4.4 wasn’t blue, but more of a light and ugly brown color. Not Ubuntu brown, or should I say the old Ubuntu brown.
Google Maps Goes Cycling
Wed, 03/10/2010 - 11:34 | by nixternalTHIS is an interesting thing done by Google today. They have finally added cycling routes to their maps. This is a really nice feature if you are just a casual rider. I know there are a few of us in the Ubuntu community who are not casual riders and we live for speed, we live for flying past pack fodder, and we aren’t afraid of hills. Well, Google maps new cycling route feature is afraid of hills, and when you use it, Google maps will route you around any hills. BOO!
