ClassicMenu Indicator is a Gnome2 style application menu indicator applet for the top panel of Ubuntu Unity desktop. ClassicMenu Indicator just updated: fixed bug in handling of missing/unusable icons, and added System Settings menu. Here’s the System Settings Menu: They are integrated into indicator with menus of Personal, Hardware, and System: Install Classic Menu Indicator: [...]
The description of qshutdown from its web site: qshutdown is a slim program to shutdown/reboot/suspend/hibernate the computer. It is a grafical tool that shows the time until the corresponding request is send to the gnome-, kde-session-manager or to HAL/DeviceKit if the first two won’t do. Otherwise the command ‘sudo shutdown -P now’ is used. This [...]
Cinnamon is a LinuxMint project, a fork of Gnome Shell. Cinnamon comes with a Gnome2-like panel at bottom, with classic menu, favourite apps, and system tray icons on it. Cinnamon also has Gnome Shell Activity icon on top-left with “Windows & Themes”. Cinnamon just released 1.1.3 version few hours ago with improvements of menu, panel [...]
SMplayer is a GUI front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more. SMplayer released version 0.6.10 few days ago, with following changes: New vdpau configuration dialog, which allow to select the vdpau codecs to use. Port for OS/2 (by Silvan [...]
Clementine is a multiplatform music player based on Amarok 1.4, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and playing your music. Version 1.0 was released on Dec 27. This release adds Spotify, Grooveshark and SKY.fm/Digitally Imported support. We’ve also added a Global Search feature that allows you to easily find music that’s either in your library or [...]
Mixxx is free mixing software for DJs, providing everything needed to create live mixes. It allows you to beatmatch songs and crossfade them together, like you would with turntables and a mixer. If you’re new to DJing, don’t sweat it. Mixxx runs without any extra hardware, and is a full replacement for a traditional “turntables [...]
Amarok 2.5 “Earth Moving” was released on December 20, there got a lot of changes and bugfixes: GPodder.net podcast synchronization. Re-written USB Mass Storage support. The Windows version of Amarok is now officially declared stable. Many bugfixes to the iPod plugin, thanks to Matěj Laitl. An integrated Amazon MP3 store. This major feature is the [...]
The popular Ubuntu configuring tool Ubuntu Tweak just released a stable version 0.6.0 few hours ago. Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 brings Unity Settings for configuring Launcher, Dash, and Panel. Now, Ubuntu Tweak is fully plug-able, this means everyone can write extension (or plugin) for Ubuntu Tweak Here are the changes in Ubuntu Tweak 0.6.0: Brand new [...]
Firefox 9.0 stable was released two days ago. Mozilla Stable PPA has updated the packages to the latest but only for Ubuntu 10.04 & 10.10, and other Ubuntu editions can try Firefox 9 by downloading code from Mozilla.org, or waiting for the repository to update. Now, Ubuntu-Mozilla-Security/PPA has updated the packages of latest Firefox 9 [...]
Compiz has updated to 0.9.x in Ubuntu’s universe repository, and the snow plugin has outdated. Now it’s difficult to let it snow on Ubuntu using Compiz. Fortunately, there’s a small X window application called Xsnow that brings Christmas to your desktop. Xsnow can be installed via Ubunu Software Center, or: sudo apt-get install xsnow Once [...]
