That ‘Unofficial’ Snap Store Could Become More Official
If you read my post about the ‘unofficial’ Snap Store for Ubuntu (and why I think it’s better than the actual Snap Store for Ubuntu) I’ve got an interesting update. Switching to the preview/edge channel for the official Ubuntu Snap Store — Snap Store is the GNOME Software fork Ubuntu ships with, with the Flatpak goodness stripped out and Snap stuff bolted on — now installs the unofficial without-a-name Flutter-based store. It seems the unofficial Snap Store is set to become the official Snap Store! Is that surprising? As noted on Reddit, the community-based, Flutter-built, PackageKit-leveraging Snap Store looks, feels, 
#Dev #News #Flutter #GnomeSoftware #SnapStore
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/09/that-unofficial-snap-store-could-become-more-official
KDE Plasma Comes to the Big Screen (Yes, Your TV)
Plasma Bigscreen is an open source entertainment experience powered by the same technologies used by the KDE Plasma desktop. Want details? See inside!
#Dev #News #Kde #KdePlasma #RaspberryPi #Tv
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/09/kde-plasma-comes-to-the-big-screen-yes-your-tv
Papirus Icon Set’s September Update Adds 38 New Icons
Paprius icon set gets an Autumn update that adds 38 new and updated app icons. The popular icon pack now covers more Linux-friendly apps, tools, and games.
#Download #News #EyeCandy #Icons #Papirus
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/09/papirus-icon-theme-update-september-2022
You Can Now Try Ubuntu’s Brand New Installer on Existing Installs
Ubuntu devs are building a brand new desktop installer using Subiquity and Flutter — and now you can test it out on your existing install as a demo Snap.
#Dev #News #Flutter #Installer #Ubuntu22_10
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/09/how-to-try-ubuntus-brand-new-installer-without-installing-ubuntu
Open Source Qt ‘Notes’ App Adds Folders, Tags + More
Notes is an open source, and cross-platform note-taking app written in Qt. A new version is available to download. I list what's new and share screenshots.
#News #NoteTakingApps #Notes #QtApps
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/09/open-source-qt-notes-app-major-update
GTK MPD Client ‘Ymuse’ Adds Album Art & Seek Support
If you're looking for a fast, responsive front-end for MPD, look no further than Ymuse — a new release of which is now available with several improvements.
#News #GtkApps #Mpd #MusicPlayers #Ymuse
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/09/gtk-mpd-client-ymuse-adds-album-art-seek-support
4 New Effects Added to ‘Burn My Windows’ Extension
Despite the name, the Burn My Windows GNOME extension offers a grab-bag of different animated effects for opening and closing windows. Alongside the name-sake flame inferno effect beloved of the Compiz Fusion years are an assortment of other animations, spanning the gamut from superfluous science-fiction inspired ones through to more mystical looking disintegrations. Well, now we have even more choice as four brand new effects have been added in the latest version of this brilliant bling bolt-on, rolling out as an update through the GNOME Extensions website. The four new effects include Doom, which is said to be ‘inspired by
#News #BurnMyWindows #EyeCandy #GnomeExtensions
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/09/4-new-effects-added-to-burn-my-windows-extension
Firefox 105 Includes Gesture Navigation, PDF Annotation + More
Firefox 105 is packed with changes, from better memory behaviour to new gesture navigation. I go hands on with the latest builds to see what's in store.
#Dev #News #Firefox #Pdf
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/09/mozilla-firefox-105-new-features
Evolution Email Client Now Uses a Headerbar/CSD
The Evolution email client now uses client-side decoration. I checked in with the latest development builds of Evolution ahead of the GNOME 43 release just to make sure I wasn’t missing anything major and …Saw I was missing something major: the introduction of header-bars! Fans of the Evolution groupware suite will be able to enjoy the updated header-bar UI in the next stable release, Evolution 3.46, which is due to ship alongside GNOME 43 later this month (September). It will also be available to install on Ubuntu 22.10, for those wondering. In fact, dev builds are now in the dailies!
#Dev #News #Evolution #Gnome #Gnome43 #HeaderBars
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/09/evolution-mail-client-new-header-bar
How to Make Console Your Default Terminal App on Ubuntu
GNOME Console app is a great new alternative to other Linux terminal emulators. In this post I show you how to set Console as default terminal on Ubuntu.
#HowTo #Console #GtkApps #TerminalApps
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/09/make-gnome-console-default-terminal-in-ubuntu
Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS Released with Linux Kernel 5.15
A wild focal fossa appears, albeit one you've sort of seen before. Yes, the Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS point release is ready to download with Linux kernel 5.15.
#Download #News #PointRelease #Ubuntu20_04Lts
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/09/ubuntu-20-04-5-lts-released-with-linux-kernel-5-15
Want to Customise Libadwaita? Try ‘Gradience’
Some see the emergence of libadwaita as an intentional roadblock designed to get in the way of end-user customisation — but a new app added to Flathub this week proves otherwise. Gradience is a nimble desktop app written in Python, GTK4, and libadwaita. Using it you can change each and every colour that appears in the libadwaita theme (as well as the adw-gtk3 theme, should you have it installed). We’re talking background app colour, button colour, toggles, switches, radio boxes, and sliders; menus; dialogs; pop-overs; drop-down lists… There’s even an advanced tab where custom CSS code can be applied. It busts
#Apps #News #Adwaita #EyeCandy #Gradience #GtkApps #Libadwaita
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/08/gradience-customize-libadwaita-theme
This Unofficial ‘Ubuntu Software’ App is Better Than Ubuntu’s Actual One
There’s an interesting and totally unofficial new desktop software store in development by the Ubuntu Flutter Community (though the app is designed to work on other distros also). It doesn’t have a name yet, nor any branding, and as it’s still in active development there are only alpha-quality snapshots to play with. Devs describe it as ‘an alternative software store for the Ubuntu Desktop made with Flutter‘, the app-development tech Ubuntu is all-in on. It’s not developed by Canonical (though Canonical employees do contribute to the code) and there’s no suggestion it’ll ever ship by default on the OS itself.
#Dev #News #Flutter #SnapStore
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/08/new-unofficial-ubuntu-software-app-flutter
Ubuntu 22.10: Release Date & New Features
Excited for Ubuntu 22.10? Here's everything we know about the next major release of Ubuntu, including stable release date and planned new features.
#Feature #News #Gnome43 #Ubuntu22_10
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/08/ubuntu-22-10-release-new-features
‘Nephrite’ is a Classy New GTK Theme for Linux Desktops
One of Linux desktop's most prolific — not to mention best, imo — theme makers has released a brand new GTK theme for us all to go gaga over: Nephrite.
#News #Themes #EyeCandy #GtkThemes #Libadwaita #Vinceliuice
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/08/nephrite-gtk-theme-linux
Pano is a ‘Next-Gen Clipboard Manager’ for GNOME Shell
Looking for a visually rich clipboard manager for GNOME Shell? Pano is precisely that, with bold, colourful media previews for a host of content types.
#News #Clipboard #GnomeExtensions
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/08/pano-clipboard-manager-for-gnome-shell
GNOME Shell’s New Quick Toggles Arrive in Ubuntu 22.10
The latest GNOME Shell beta just hit the Ubuntu 22.10 updates channel. It brings GNOME 43's revamped system menu and, no lie, I'm in love with it.
#News #Gnome43 #Ubuntu22_10
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/08/gnome-43-arrives-in-ubuntu-22-10-daily-builds-quick-toggles-ftw
KDE Plasma 5.25 Now Available for 22.04 LTS Users
If you’re running Kubuntu 22.04 LTS you can now upgrade to KDE Plasma 5.25, the latest stable release of the free, open source desktop environment. The Kubuntu team has made the update available to install from its backports PPA following requests from users. To be clear: this is not an automatic upgrade. The Kubuntu 22.04 LTS install image ships with KDE Plasma 5.24 by default, and that’s not changing. Instead, users who want to upgrade to Plasma 5.25 on Jammy can opt-in by adding the Kubuntu backports PPA and a new backports-extra PPA (technically the extra PPA can be used
#News #Backports #KdePlasma #Kubuntu
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/08/kubuntu-22-04-users-can-now-upgrade-to-kde-plasma-5-25
Kdenlive 22.08 Released with Some Blockbuster Improvements
A major new version of the open source video editor Kdenlive is now available to download. Kdenlive 22.08 comes front-loaded with a variety of interesting new features, UI tweaks, and enhancements to many of its existing capabilities. As a result, Kdenlive 22.08 stands to offer a smoother editing experience than in previous versions. Let’s take a look at exactly what’s new. New Features in Kdenlive 22.08 This release includes a bunch of enhancements to Kdenlive’s proxy clip generation system (including working NVENC and VAAPI proxy clip encoding). The latter fix delivers an appreciable boost if you work with high-resolution footage
#News #Kdenlive #QtApps #VideoEditors
Firefox 104 Released with Tweaks to Reduce Battery Usage When Idle
As sure as the sun rises and sets, so a new version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser emerges every four weeks. And lo, Firefox 104 is ready for release. Before we look at what’s new, a quick word to those of you hoping to hear that Firefox’s new Linux touchpad gestures are enabled out-of-the-box: they’re now. But, as in Firefox 103, you can enable the Wayland-compatible feature yourself via the about:config section. Usual caveats apply. On to what is included in Firefox 104… If there’s a “headline” change to be found in this release it’s that performance of the
#News #AppUpdates #Firefox #Mozilla #WebBrowsers
