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OpenShot Video Editor 1.3.0 Released With New Default Theme, Upload To YouTube Or Vimeo, New 3D Animations

  • WebUpd8; By Andrew Dickinson (Posted by hotice on Feb 14, 2011 1:40 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
OpenShot 1.3.0 comes with a new user interface called "Fresh" and finally adds something many of you have requested: stock icons support. The new version also lets you easily upload videos to YouTube or Vimeo.

Pinguy OS LTS Update: 10.04.2 Ubuntu Remaster

An update for Pinguy OS 10.04 LTS was released today: 10.04.2. For those who are not familiar with Pinguy OS: it's an Ubuntu remaster with a lot of useful default applications "built to have eye candy (Gloobus Preview, GNOME Do, Docky, Nautilus Elementary) and for every part of it to be user-friendly".

Gnome Shell Gets Automatic Workspaces Video

  • WebUpd8; By Andrew Dickinson (Posted by hotice on Feb 11, 2011 12:35 AM EDT)
  • Groups: GNOME; Story Type: News Story
Remember the Gnome Shell automatic workspaces mockup we've talked about a while back? It has just been added to the main Gnome Shell branch today.

GIMP Painter And GIMP Paint Studio Transform GIMP Into The Ultimate Painting Tool

  • WebUpd8; By Andrew Dickinson (Posted by hotice on Feb 8, 2011 7:31 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
GIMP Paint Studio is a package that comes with new tools and brushes, designed to improve the drawing capabilities of GIMP. It can be used for many tasks, including painting, erasing, blurring, airbrushing, inking and special effects. GIMP Painter adds some color blending and line smoothing features you can see in the video below:

How To Boot An ISO With GRUB2 (The Easy Way!)

If you want to try out a new Linux distro, be it the latest Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal daily ISO or any other (I've only tested it with Ubuntu though!) and don't want to burn a CD each time you want to try a new daily build (and you don't have an USB memory stick around), you can use a cool GRUB 2 feature that lets you boot a live CD ISO directly from your hard disk.

DockBarX Applet 0.43 Released With Helpers, Media Buttons

DockBarX, an amazing Gnome panel / Avant Window Navigator taskmanager applet was updated to version 0.43 today, this new release bringing media buttons for all music players that show up in the Ubuntu Sound menu and DockManager support which means that you can use the Docky helpers in DockBarX.

gMusicBrowser To Replace Exaile In Xubuntu 11.04

The news comes from yesterday's Xubuntu Community Team meeting which also reveals that LightDM is considered to replace GDM (not decided for now). gMusicBrowser will probably use the Shimmer interface by default (as we've seen in our last gMusicBrowser post, this amazing music player comes with lots of layouts) but with some further tweaks which include sort-by-artist mode for mosaic, rename the layouts, make a netbook layout and more.

Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Alpha 2, Released Screenshots And Video

  • WebUpd8; By Andrew Dickinson (Posted by hotice on Feb 4, 2011 1:34 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Ubuntu; Story Type: News Story
Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal alpha 2 has just been released and as usual, we'll do a recap of all the new features since alpha 1.

Easily Test Gnome Shell Using A Live CD

Testing Gnome Shell just got a whole lot easier! There are now live CD Gnome Shell (Gnome 3) ISO files available for both Fedora and openSUSE - you don't have to install them, all you have to do is write the ISO files onto an USB stick or CD, boot and enjoy Gnome Shell.

How To Install Oxygen-Transparent Style In Ubuntu KDE

KDE 4.6 was supposed to ship with a transparent Oxygen style but in the end it didn't make it "due to serious issues (notably with embedded widgets, such as videos) which cannot be fixed at the style level". But that doesn't mean you can't install Oxygen-Transparent. Read on!

A Cross-Distro Unified Installer Is On The Way

Developers from Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Suse, and Mageia attended to a conference last week in which they've tried to find a way to make "installing and removing software on Linux suck less."

Gnome Shell Daily Build (January 24th, 2011) Video

  • WebUpd8; By Andrew Dickinson (Posted by hotice on Jan 26, 2011 1:49 PM EDT)
  • Groups: GNOME; Story Type: News Story
As requested by many of our readers, here is a video showing the latest GNOME Shell daily build (as of January 24th, 2011). There have been many changes to Gnome Shell since our last video, including the overview relayout (which is default for some time), notification changes, side-by-side tiling as well a functional notification area and many other changes.

Xubuntu 11.04 To Get A New Default Theme Called Greybird Screenshots

  • WebUpd8; By Andrew Dickinson (Posted by hotice on Jan 25, 2011 10:48 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Starting with version 11.04 alpha 2 (to be released on February 3rd), Xubuntu will use a new theme called "Greybird" as the default theme.

GLX-Dock (Cairo Dock) 2.3 Beta Gets MintMenu, Cardapio Applets, Many Other Improvements

  • WebUpd8; By Andrew Dickinson (Posted by hotice on Jan 23, 2011 2:33 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
A new version of GLX-Dock (previously known as Cairo Dock) is on the way - 2.3 (currently in beta), which will bing a lot of new applets: MintMenu, Cardapio and Lancelot menus, a translator applet, Thunderbird unread count applet, Transmission, Deluge and Ktorrent applets and more.

Automatically Install All The Google Web Fonts In Ubuntu Using A Script

I was reading on Femtux about a Google Web Fonts package for ArchLinux and though I'd make one for Ubuntu. I didn't create a .deb but instead I've modified the original ArchLinux script to download and install all the Google Font Directory fonts on Ubuntu. The fonts included are the new Gnome 3 font, Chrome OS font, Ubuntu font and many more.

LibreOffice User Interface Mockups (With Sidebar)

  • WebUpd8; By Andrew Dickinson (Posted by hotice on Jan 17, 2011 6:19 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Paulo José posted some very interesting LibreOffice UI mockups at DeviantArt for which he says the main inspiration was the Blender UI:

2D Unity To Be Available As An Option In Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Screenshots

  • WebUpd8; By Andrew Dickinson (Posted by hotice on Jan 14, 2011 10:13 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Ubuntu; Story Type: News Story
"Does Natty's Unity require proprietary graphics card drivers?" was a question posted on AskUbuntu and who better to answer this question then Mark Suttleworth himself (who apparently is quite an active AskUbuntu user)?

Orta 1.4.0 Released, Atolm Gets A PPA And New Version Theme Updates

  • WebUpd8; By Andrew Dickinson (Posted by hotice on Jan 13, 2011 11:31 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Good news for all the Orta fans: a new version has been released today with a new Nautilus Elementary style (configurable from the Orta Settings Manager) as well as many bug fixes.

Puddletag - Awesome mp3tag-like Editor For Linux

  • WebUpd8; By Andrew Dickinson (Posted by hotice on Jan 10, 2011 10:12 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
I've read about Puddletag a few times but I've never actually tried it until today and indeed, just like StoneCut says, it's the only real Mp3tag alternative for Linux, integrating most of the EasyTag and MusicBrainz Picard features along with other functions in a fully customizable interface.

Ubuntu 11.04 Updates: Banshee Default, New Grub Background, AppMenu Changes Screenshots & Video

  • WebUpd8; By Andrew Dickinson (Posted by hotice on Jan 8, 2011 3:42 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Ubuntu; Story Type: News Story
An update today finally sets Banshee as the default music player in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. Since Banshee is now default, it has replaced Rhythmbox in the Ubuntu Sound Menu:

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