Unity 6.4.0 Lands In Ubuntu Quantal Proposed Repository, Brings Dash Previews

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdp7NtWBjN6c8DETAuPBv9V4qKjGsyJeJ0TTZYWdmkehZwHa9Md9m0ENpeTdOBMIod6jzkIVyz-oqnLMe8yuAwWONGR175QMutxEFKRsGOHRCCp5EllUko-Lnb0qZ76Rmy5OQv_BwnAnDx/s1600/preview-chromium.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="ubuntu dash previews" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdp7NtWBjN6c8DETAuPBv9V4qKjGsyJeJ0TTZYWdmkehZwHa9Md9m0ENpeTdOBMIod6jzkIVyz-oqnLMe8yuAwWONGR175QMutxEFKRsGOHRCCp5EllUko-Lnb0qZ76Rmy5OQv_BwnAnDx/s320/preview-chromium.png" title="ubuntu dash previews" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Unity 6.4.0 has been uploaded to the Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal proposed* repositories today, bringing a huge list of bug fixes, but also some new features that were announced earlier, like the Dash previews feature.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The <b>previews feature</b> allows you to right click applications or files in Dash to get a preview, along with some extra information which depends on the item you've right clicked. The previews currently work with applications (both installed and suggested), music (available on the HDD and available for download), videos and pictures. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />The music lens can now play music without the need of an external music player: when right clicking an album, be it available for purchase or local music, the tracks are listed along with the album art and if you hove a track number, a play/pause button is displayed and you can play that track:<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlmfuW8P1CO2XVNk91SYHv9hkakOVszOPv-fa2KUV32XKISvu91KSKqKfpCfd8Osz0gNB6XfYE1kVYHHE-vm0JUTVejMuMU-Dp7ih2Ot-nk2AWymvk-Y3USKdEt0CzwZnPIOm0IPewmgy1/s1600/music-lens.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="music lens preview" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlmfuW8P1CO2XVNk91SYHv9hkakOVszOPv-fa2KUV32XKISvu91KSKqKfpCfd8Osz0gNB6XfYE1kVYHHE-vm0JUTVejMuMU-Dp7ih2Ot-nk2AWymvk-Y3USKdEt0CzwZnPIOm0IPewmgy1/s320/music-lens.png" title="music lens preview" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dash previews - music available for purchase playing</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3O-_ai9Kfyr68KzeRmxrobFNxv_64Fffos5emTjSbztmaKNNEkEL65-N-NEzbN94RuLzofTFJJ6Z-TKJ-1VY3HJZZBK9d6YMvphJ_x_WMLMV9-KY6w2wso1vtjV2SgYn3zXTYekTDR6Kv/s1600/music-play-dash.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3O-_ai9Kfyr68KzeRmxrobFNxv_64Fffos5emTjSbztmaKNNEkEL65-N-NEzbN94RuLzofTFJJ6Z-TKJ-1VY3HJZZBK9d6YMvphJ_x_WMLMV9-KY6w2wso1vtjV2SgYn3zXTYekTDR6Kv/s320/music-play-dash.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dash previews - local music playing</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We've covered this a while back, so for more info and a video, see: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/08/unity-dash-gets-cool-new-previews.html">Unity: Dash Gets A Cool New Previews Feature [Video] - Ubuntu 12.10 Development</a>.</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitcdzF9C6n7QfUl938xA6TGikjbWI9otES2kBCxPjLXWhF78TnNoCNVpGBhQGnBFdhYpGAy044oS7BJHNH7ZXizXBJqOMiMVXIZ0vxRlHND6R9qj7czsf-dFoRCfaQHUHldwOjdZ6bG-Jf/s1600/preview-image.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="ubuntu unity previews" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitcdzF9C6n7QfUl938xA6TGikjbWI9otES2kBCxPjLXWhF78TnNoCNVpGBhQGnBFdhYpGAy044oS7BJHNH7ZXizXBJqOMiMVXIZ0vxRlHND6R9qj7czsf-dFoRCfaQHUHldwOjdZ6bG-Jf/s320/preview-image.png" title="ubuntu unity previews" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dash previews - local image</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides the preview feature, the latest Unity 6.4.0 seems to also come with the new <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/07/install-new-ubuntu-webapps-technology.html">Unity webapps technology</a> because when upgrading, 2 new packages were installed: libunity-webapps0 and unity-webapps-service, but it doesn't work yet. The browser (Firefox and Chromium) extensions are not installed by default, but even after installing them, the WebApps feature didn't work in my test so it seems there's something still missing here.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Another change in Unity 6.4.0 is that <b>"backlight toggles" mode is now switched on</b> by default (screenshot above) which means that the Unity launcher icons for applications that aren't running don't have a background anymore:</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhInigCTlNBli40ikavZF3hpqT-PXmT4z_F_KxxBjDYYL5acZ3iRndyEIkClrFVZpEJFyBn2gtZ3O5fqPMBpJU8K5OdEAr8n_0qXxJF8vfwHyxwQYvAEpMU20WMTSOyRxDZ1tMIRsKzyguQ/s1600/launcher-backlight.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="unity Backlight toggles on" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhInigCTlNBli40ikavZF3hpqT-PXmT4z_F_KxxBjDYYL5acZ3iRndyEIkClrFVZpEJFyBn2gtZ3O5fqPMBpJU8K5OdEAr8n_0qXxJF8vfwHyxwQYvAEpMU20WMTSOyRxDZ1tMIRsKzyguQ/s320/launcher-backlight.png" title="unity Backlight toggles on" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Backlight toggles on</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And finally, there's also a change in Compiz that I've noticed while testing Unity 6.4.0: the Magic Lamp animation is now used when clicking a minimized application from the Unity launcher (this is not used when minimizing an application). This animation is also used on Mac OSX where is known as the Genie effect (you can see a GIF with this animation in action <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIGZRmmB4RVCkub52Yoc14XMYxJlWUhybdYT_2TANAy4JYQs0UDh4Da5FMGX78gyFODAZuFN9pTG6MAiKtdnMtdsgzXoulwphxIrgzlb03ITd6abo6s_fC_3vYjUm1niEHW5XExmegAIhv/s1600/output.gif">HERE</a>):</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlC0Z4fC6eZf4P9KiPX8yLvATCyY6oTZClOMVHGuDdm6C_rdHg1BqAlOCwGS0Bvk9ONNtRFyAYt0ALashyfrJXIPc2-2UDY-tvgqztJAH31pSuzuVeL_ORjCxtjSdJqj3P4a-GEYxbea5-/s1600/genie.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="unity magic lamp genie effect" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlC0Z4fC6eZf4P9KiPX8yLvATCyY6oTZClOMVHGuDdm6C_rdHg1BqAlOCwGS0Bvk9ONNtRFyAYt0ALashyfrJXIPc2-2UDY-tvgqztJAH31pSuzuVeL_ORjCxtjSdJqj3P4a-GEYxbea5-/s320/genie.png" title="unity magic lamp genie effect" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Magic Lamp ("Genie") effect</td></tr></tbody></table><br />For a complete list of changes in Unity 6.4.0, see the changelog @ <a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/+source/unity/6.4.0-0ubuntu1">Launchpad</a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">* The proposed repository is not enabled by default - it can be enabled via Software Sources. Unity 6.4.0 should be promoted from the proposed to the main repository soon.</div>

Unity 6.4.0 Lands In Ubuntu Quantal Proposed Repository, Brings Dash Previews

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Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal Community Wallpapers Revealed

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The package that comes with the winning wallpapers for the Quantal wallpaper contest has just uploaded to the Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal repositories.</b></div><br />Here are the 12 winning wallpapers:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDUOvzOUxm9K0PuQKU74hleJuQgqKOQstVp1ys0MPDT3zy9Fjj3WNWhOl3qCA3oEYlQtIKqhAVhZHEvY7ibfzvbNxHh9824qPg5AzkV-xKdnSZnvLsEPiPuOiJj955a-i-8xJnzsw2VkqS/s1920/A_Little_Quetzal_by_vgerasimov.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDUOvzOUxm9K0PuQKU74hleJuQgqKOQstVp1ys0MPDT3zy9Fjj3WNWhOl3qCA3oEYlQtIKqhAVhZHEvY7ibfzvbNxHh9824qPg5AzkV-xKdnSZnvLsEPiPuOiJj955a-i-8xJnzsw2VkqS/s320/A_Little_Quetzal_by_vgerasimov.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA1A9bf_aspf1cEQIfrhWRZJut_znOPmvSB1i_7bjqT-UIrXWgz0fkCLWFdCb3dHOS9faJCSppv6XNZjMBBXKGThlhSaZHw3G5sJa4P4G1rs25DKn0PoQt9ZvQawS2qVbe3bPUaEkhw_qb/s1920/Below_Clouds_by_kobinho.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCx81DIw5fJjIE0RSr6ASPQQcsUtVy7DyBOWU5yjaeT-_o5dCbgX289ZX78OkpRNrboxoXtE57jeAt2UD9BHj33eZvc75trSLe5AweRVTALBtAM7zTrXeJTzuLCs-6yPLtQMY2JWtH-kv9/s1920/Vanishing_by_James_Wilson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCx81DIw5fJjIE0RSr6ASPQQcsUtVy7DyBOWU5yjaeT-_o5dCbgX289ZX78OkpRNrboxoXtE57jeAt2UD9BHj33eZvc75trSLe5AweRVTALBtAM7zTrXeJTzuLCs-6yPLtQMY2JWtH-kv9/s320/Vanishing_by_James_Wilson.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you're not using  Ubuntu 12.10, you can download the wallpapers from <a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-wallpapers/0.35.1/+build/3763395/+files/ubuntu-wallpapers-quantal_0.35.1_all.deb">HERE</a> (deb - you don't have to install it, you can simply extract it), or, you can <a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/ubuntu-wallpapers_0.35.1.tar.gz">download all the Ubuntu community wallpapers</a> from Ubuntu Karmic to Quantal.</div>

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Install ADB And Fastboot Android Tools In Ubuntu Via PPA

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3rgKUi_R1s8yVmOJdT_o4SGpNkgMp1zK2inr-2cPzfxHBsi1qmKqo3VMinFOG_bm3XG1YulKKqFYqG3c-QmrpJsVYSXL_yVGpjw1DFZ8wsi_KHTKGyx9xwedcwxr-xRz0MS0pSpUBPQG1/s1600/adb.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="adb" border="0" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3rgKUi_R1s8yVmOJdT_o4SGpNkgMp1zK2inr-2cPzfxHBsi1qmKqo3VMinFOG_bm3XG1YulKKqFYqG3c-QmrpJsVYSXL_yVGpjw1DFZ8wsi_KHTKGyx9xwedcwxr-xRz0MS0pSpUBPQG1/s320/adb.png" title="adb" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>A package called "android-tools", which comes with "adb" and "fastboot" command line utilities, has been uploaded to the Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal repositories recently. I've got a request to upload this package in a PPA for older Ubuntu releases, so I've backported it to Ubuntu 12.04, 11.10 and 11.04.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>"adb" (Android Debug Bridge) </b>is a command line tool you can use to access the file system from an Android device; it can be used to send commands, transfer or receive files, install or uninstall applications and more.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>"fastboot"</b> is a command line tools that you can use to flash the filesystem on Android devices over USB.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">These tools can be found in the <a href="http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html">Android SDK</a> too; using the official package in Ubuntu 12.10 or the packages in our PPA is just an alternative and easier way I'd say, to install them in Ubuntu. Also, the packages in the PPA are available for both 32bit and 64bit, while the Android SDK provided by Google is only available for <a href="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=904303">32bit</a>.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install "android-tools" package (adb and fastboot) in Ubuntu 12.04, 11.10 or 11.04</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Like I've said above, android-tools is available in the official Ubuntu 12.10 repositories so all you have to do is search for it in Ubuntu Software Center and click the install button.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For Ubuntu 12.04, 11.10 and 11.04, you can install android-tools using the main WebUpd8 PPA:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot</code></pre><br />Once installed, run "adb" and "fastboot" in a terminal to see the available options and how to use these Android tools.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Update 1:</b> we've now backported the Ubuntu Raring builds to Ubuntu 12.10 as well as Ubuntu 12.04 and 11.10. This includes  a new android-tools-ext4-utils package (“sudo apt-get install android-tools-fsutils”) and <b>udev rules to allow fastboot flashing Nexus7.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Update 2:</b>  The "android-tools-adb" package now includes / installs <b>51-android.rules</b> Udev rules. This isn't available in the official Ubuntu package but only in the package available in our PPA, and is available for <b>Ubuntu Raring, Quantal, Precise and Oneiric.</b></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Thanks to Marcin Juszkiewicz for the packaging; I've only uploaded the package to the WebUpd8 PPA for older Ubuntu releases</i></div>

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Quickly Open Large PDF Files Even On Slow Machines With MuPDF

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi31h8V7iNvWHu51W3pY8Obk1ogXx60ZwqgRkvzUbVs_NVObCVN5IiUmKHtPCwQvMkyEt5vNoMww6QPRzEyQO03SrZD8uvaU8jY8bJsgWJvmOU0dxxAbbkdP5EpQV3I3HGnSjvmKa6gXrEz/s1600/mupdf.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="mupdf" border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi31h8V7iNvWHu51W3pY8Obk1ogXx60ZwqgRkvzUbVs_NVObCVN5IiUmKHtPCwQvMkyEt5vNoMww6QPRzEyQO03SrZD8uvaU8jY8bJsgWJvmOU0dxxAbbkdP5EpQV3I3HGnSjvmKa6gXrEz/s320/mupdf.png" title="mupdf" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.mupdf.com/">MuPDF</a> is a small and fast PDF viewer that can quickly open large PDF files, even on slow computers.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a>WebUpd8 reader David Reimer writes:<br /><br /><blockquote>Larger PDFs (such as those 20Mb+ ones available at Archive.org/details/texts) run miserably slowly in Evince, or about any other PDF reader/viewer I've tried in Ubuntu, to the point of being unusable. With MuPDF, they can be read (even on my aging hardware) quite rapidly.</blockquote><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Since the application focuses on speed and small code size, it doesn't come with interactive features like for filling for instance. Also, the user interface only displays the PDF; to navigate through the PDF file (next page, rotate, zoom, search for text, go to a page and so on), you must use keyboard shortcuts as explained <a href="http://www.mupdf.com/manual">HERE</a>.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">MuPDF also comes with a few tools (in the "mupdf-tools" package) that allow you to convert a PDF file to a series of images (pdfdraw), repair, decrypt, and decompress PDF files (pdfclean) as well as some debugging tools that lets you extract fonts from PDF files, display information about internal objects, etc. (pdfshow, pdfextract and pdfinfo).</div><br /><br /><h2>Install MuPDF in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">MuPDF is available in the official Ubuntu repositories, but that's an old version - 0.9 for Ubuntu 12.04. Many improvements have been added to MuPDF 1.0 and 1.1: better memory management, multi-threaded operation, better PDF rendering and <a href="http://www.mupdf.com/news">more</a>. If you wish to install the version from the official repositories, simply search for MuPDF in Ubuntu Software Center.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To install the latest MuPDF 1.1 in Ubuntu 12.10, 12.04 or 11.10, use the following commands:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:guilhem-fr/mupdf<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install mupdf</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>MuPDF isn't available just for Linux, the application is also available for Windows, Android and iOS:</b></div><ul><li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/mupdf/downloads/list">download MuPDF source / Windows / Android</a></li><li><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mupdf/id482941798">download MuPDF for iOS</a></li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>thanks to David Reimer for the tip!</i></div>

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Install GIMP 2.8.2 In Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin

<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAKfGbd-bTsfgjpUIT0qrFXZYpgeEm1SFLWyzIKZBIBxFoWBafS2eOfjoNgyi8PeeP3gW9OWLUARN1iHgASpU-DKn5TGnV5YG2ctqc8n1pf_1KTVzS3doCREoMjDpV3h-pJtqRxjsl89aL/s1600/gimp-2.8.2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="gimp 2.8.2" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAKfGbd-bTsfgjpUIT0qrFXZYpgeEm1SFLWyzIKZBIBxFoWBafS2eOfjoNgyi8PeeP3gW9OWLUARN1iHgASpU-DKn5TGnV5YG2ctqc8n1pf_1KTVzS3doCREoMjDpV3h-pJtqRxjsl89aL/s320/gimp-2.8.2.png" title="gimp 2.8.2" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b>GIMP 2.8.2 has been released a few days ago with lots of bug fixes, but without any new features.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><b>Among the changes included in the latest GIMP 2.8.2 are:</b><br /><ul><li>Mention that the image was exported in the close warning dialog</li><li>Fix the visibility logic of the export/overwrite menu items</li><li>Remove all "Use GEGL" menu items, they only add bugs and zero function</li><li>Improve performance of display filters, especially color management</li><li>Fix the image window title to comply with the save/export spec and use the same image name everywhere, not only in the title</li><li>Fix positioning of pasted/dropped stuff to be more reasonable</li><li>Fix remembering of JPEG load/save defaults</li><li>Mac OSX / Windows fixes</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The 2.8.x series won't include any new features, just bug fixes. The <a href="http://wiki.gimp.org/index.php/Roadmap">plan</a> is to add full GEGL support, high bit depths, an unified transform tool and other new features with GIMP 2.10 and finally port GIMP to GTK3 with version 3.0.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install GIMP 2.8.2 in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The PPA that provides GIMP 2.8.x for Ubuntu 12.04 users has been updated today with the latest GIMP 2.8.2. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To add the PPA and install GIMP 2.8.2 in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install gimp</code></pre><br />For source files, Windows and Mac OSX installers, see the <a href="http://www.gimp.org/downloads/">GIMP download page</a>.

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Ubuntu Alternate CDs Could Be Dropped For 12.10

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1yvDZsgrJaXs0W2wZaBZ4aDLQOvdG_zbcQ-Lv8GN3TS5yTlqX8LXXd5N3dB-Qjc08GX1BLcinR7SiVO-P0PqxAVC098uL8IcJPjCpqVn98WSvF3Ht7MiETfn9qODhMGgXAiDQ0wB2wNN-/s1600/ubuntu-alternate-cd.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1yvDZsgrJaXs0W2wZaBZ4aDLQOvdG_zbcQ-Lv8GN3TS5yTlqX8LXXd5N3dB-Qjc08GX1BLcinR7SiVO-P0PqxAVC098uL8IcJPjCpqVn98WSvF3Ht7MiETfn9qODhMGgXAiDQ0wB2wNN-/s320/ubuntu-alternate-cd.png" title="ubuntu alternate cd installer" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Steve Langasek, Ubuntu release manager, has proposed on the Ubuntu-devel mailing list to drop the alternate CDs for Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal. </b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><i>The alternate CD is a text-mode installer that comes with various advanced options like RAID setup, LVM, install LTSP Server and so on.</i><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">According to Steve Langasek, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal will be getting support for LVM, cryptsetup and RAID to Ubiquity, however, there won't be any RAID support in Ubiquity for this Ubuntu release, but you'll be able to set up RAID post-install or by using the netboot or server CDs:</div><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">As part of ongoing efforts to reduce the number of images we ship for Ubuntu, and to make the desktop image more useful in a variety of scenarios, Dmitrijs Ledkovs has been hard at work in quantal adding support for LVM, cryptsetup, and RAID to ubiquity. [...] It [dropping the alternate CDs] lets us tighten our focus on making the desktop CD shine: fewer images to QA, fewer different paths to get right (like the CD apt upgrader case) means more time to focus on the things that matter.</blockquote><br />More information on this can be found on the <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-August/035675.html">Ubuntu-devel</a> mailing list.

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Install PowerTOP 2.1 In Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin Via PPA

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht1kSDwmTI4icFT2v89RTlMpL-ObVEs16b-BhnJB0fj1jYG0iQBh0SDn2SLu_tXopTsD-5oZAnPdVwzhT_IW32VOJO_ulfZcwgv2rJYg4_CFxLh7QMh2gid9z4KfnVsgj26Qx3HycvOOBu/s1600/powertop-overview.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="powertop" border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht1kSDwmTI4icFT2v89RTlMpL-ObVEs16b-BhnJB0fj1jYG0iQBh0SDn2SLu_tXopTsD-5oZAnPdVwzhT_IW32VOJO_ulfZcwgv2rJYg4_CFxLh7QMh2gid9z4KfnVsgj26Qx3HycvOOBu/s320/powertop-overview.png" title="powertop" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://01.org/powertop/">PowerTOP</a> is a command line tool that helps diagnose issues with power consumption and provides suggestions on how to improve power usage.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">PowerTOP 2.1, released a few days ago, introduces support for Intel GPUs and for cores without P-states, a new manual page along with an option to specify workload to run during measurement and an option to suppress output to the terminal.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install PowerTOP 2.1 in Ubuntu 12.04 via PPA</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The latest PowerTOP 2.1 is available in the Ubuntu 12.10 official repositories, and for Ubuntu 12.04 in the main WebUpd8 PPA. Add the PPA and install PowerTOP 2.1 using the following commands:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install powertop</code></pre><br />The latest PowerTOP 2.1 source can be downloaded from <a href="https://01.org/powertop/">HERE</a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Usage</h2><br />To use PowerTOP, you need to run it as root:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo powertop</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">PowerTOP doesn't just diagnose power consumption issues, but it can also provide solutions. On the Tunables tab, you can see what you can do to save some power:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihIlPZjwevRXmOfx7n3e7ejAJ44Hux_clvvEPxiOZqR58h2xVUjFzgZMddj9yRj8OTPJKQicPCcp1_tK-ih-85XOltAzkuis4MdFroL7fxwTEAPUrk7obkvi3AUxx_bvyjF9I0996TN9QM/s1600/powertop-tunables.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="powertop" border="0" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihIlPZjwevRXmOfx7n3e7ejAJ44Hux_clvvEPxiOZqR58h2xVUjFzgZMddj9yRj8OTPJKQicPCcp1_tK-ih-85XOltAzkuis4MdFroL7fxwTEAPUrk7obkvi3AUxx_bvyjF9I0996TN9QM/s320/powertop-tunables.png" title="powertop" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">However, most of the settings are not saved and they are lost after a reboot. You, can, however, make them permanent, by using the commands provided in the PowerTOP html report. To generate an HTML report, run the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo powertop --html=powertop.html</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">This will generate an HTML page which you can open in your web browser:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIr2L9HyHDmm73zs1Tfg7vPSfX4uafjscB33cVt08LGtrI1H4ajzPGXzI3c0r_NdTm1M5Z3PnAcz2aoeW2JPtrH22ASnYCjiXuSR_Sc0cGEFBrc2vPa70Vdu53TmjqYVobY7BGV-37i8So/s1600/powertop-html.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="powertop html" border="0" height="124" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIr2L9HyHDmm73zs1Tfg7vPSfX4uafjscB33cVt08LGtrI1H4ajzPGXzI3c0r_NdTm1M5Z3PnAcz2aoeW2JPtrH22ASnYCjiXuSR_Sc0cGEFBrc2vPa70Vdu53TmjqYVobY7BGV-37i8So/s320/powertop-html.png" title="powertop html" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here, you can see various information related to power usage as well as a "Tuning" tab where the settings that need tuning are displayed, along with the commands required to apply them. Add these commands to the <i>/etc/rc.local</i> file to make them permanent.</div>

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