Ubuntu 13.04: Alpha Releases Dropped, Only One Beta Milestone

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7yuLvq0H1yM/UJFLDw1xJEI/AAAAAAAALeI/_68eE2hQi28/s1600/ubuntu-raring-ringtail-logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="ubuntu raring ringtail logo" border="0" height="203" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7yuLvq0H1yM/UJFLDw1xJEI/AAAAAAAALeI/_68eE2hQi28/s320/ubuntu-raring-ringtail-logo.png" title="ubuntu raring ringtail logo" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For Ubuntu 13.04, all alphas and the first beta release have been dropped from the release schedule</b>, so <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/ubuntu-1304-codename-announced-raring.html">Raring Ringtail</a> will have only one beta version and obviously, the final stable release.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Nicholas Skaggs, the Canonical QA Community Coordinator, mentions in a <a href="http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2012/10/uds-r-rise-of-the-quality-machines.html">blog post</a> that instead of the old milestones, a bi-weekly testing process will be used throughout the development cycle. He also mentions that the <b>daily ISOs will continue to be published as usual</b> and they will be automatically 'smoke' tested to make sure there are no more broken installers on the published images.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Further more, the freezes (for instance, when the Feature Freeze takes place, the developers stop introducing new features or packages and concentrate on fixing bugs only) have been moved back a few weeks so the development will continue until late in the release cycle.</div><br />The Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail schedule should now look like this:<br /><ul><li>March 28th: beta release</li><li>April 25th: final Ubuntu 13.04 release</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>These changes will only affect the main Ubuntu flavor</b> (with Unity), while the other flavors like <b>Xubuntu, Kubuntu, etc., will have complete control over their releases</b> so we might see different release schedules for each Ubuntu flavor.</div>

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Kazam Screencaster 1.3.2 Gets New UI, Screenshots Support

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>A new Kazam Screencaster version has been released today, which brings a complete UI overhaul, support for taking screenshots and other new features</b>.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Kazam is a screen recording tool - or better said, it was, because with the latest 1.3.2 version, it's not just for screencasts and it can be used to take screenshots as well: fullscreen (current monitor), all screens, window or area.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The new version also brings a new user interface which lets you easily switch between the screencast and screenshot mode:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FOEP7K28WOI/UJEYdOCVOHI/AAAAAAAALc8/eB_9MOaul_Y/s1600/kazam_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FOEP7K28WOI/UJEYdOCVOHI/AAAAAAAALc8/eB_9MOaul_Y/s320/kazam_1.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q0Kj4TNwIfI/UJEYd8kSP0I/AAAAAAAALdA/uayiDT5UFXg/s1600/kazam_screenshot.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="224" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q0Kj4TNwIfI/UJEYd8kSP0I/AAAAAAAALdA/uayiDT5UFXg/s320/kazam_screenshot.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The encoder type, framerate and other options have been moved from the main window to a new preferences dialog:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O14JWpqwF3w/UJEYiJwTj5I/AAAAAAAALdM/fh1DzkLmcbE/s1600/kazam_3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="177" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O14JWpqwF3w/UJEYiJwTj5I/AAAAAAAALdM/fh1DzkLmcbE/s320/kazam_3.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In the preferences, you can select the speakers and microphone source, enable/disable the countdown splash, set the framerate, encoding type, if the files should be automatically saved, the directory where to save the files and the filename prefix. There's also an option to set the screenshot shutter sound (or to turn it off).</div><br /><br /><b>Other changes in Kazam Screencaster 1.3.2:</b><br /><ul><li>Support for Gstreamer 1.0</li><li>Automatic file saving. You can set the prefix filename separately for screenshots and screencasts</li><li>Support for selecting a single window to screencast</li><li>Theme-able shutter sounds. Included sounds: Canon 7D and Nikon D80.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The latest Kazam should also support keyboard shortcuts:</b></div><ul><li>start recording: Super + Control + r</li><li>pause recording: Super + Control + p</li><li>finish recording: Super + Control + f</li><li>show Kazam: Super + Control + s</li><li>quit: Super + Control + q</li></ul><br /><br />If you want to see some screencasts recorded using Kazam, take a look at our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvLwRGg6r3s">Lubuntu 12.10</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzkJ-zaa1bc">Xubuntu 12.10</a> videos.<br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Kazam Screencaster in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To add the stable Kazam PPA and install it in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 or 12.04, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kazam-team/stable-series<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install kazam</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For other Linux distributions, you can download Kazam Screencaster via <a href="https://launchpad.net/kazam/+download">Launchpad</a>.</div><br />Report any bugs you may find @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/kazam">Launchpad</a>.

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How To Get A Complete GNOME 3 Desktop In Ubuntu 12.10, Without Installing Ubuntu GNOME Remix

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-v4epkdsJSNg/UIWPZIUIrbI/AAAAAAAALN4/ntdIvuG9IE4/s1600/gnome3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="198" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-v4epkdsJSNg/UIWPZIUIrbI/AAAAAAAALN4/ntdIvuG9IE4/s320/gnome3.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>If you're using Ubuntu 12.10 with Unity or some other desktop environment and want to switch to a complete GNOME 3 desktop experience without installing <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/prefer-gnome-shell-download-ubuntu.html">Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10</a>, you can do this by simply installing a few packages.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Using the instructions below, you won't just install GNOME Shell, but also the default settings and applications that come with Ubuntu GNOME Remix. There are also some optional steps to install the GNOME 3 applications which are missing from Ubuntu GNOME Remix.</div><br /><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><h2>sudo apt-get install full-gnome3-experience</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">No, the command in the header won't work, but you'll get a complete GNOME 3 experience in Ubuntu 12.10 by following the steps below.</div><br /><b>1. Install the Ubuntu GNOME packages</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">You can simply install the "gnome-shell" package if GNOME Shell is all you want, but if you want the whole GNOME 3 desktop which includes the default applications as well as the default settings, use the command below:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install ubuntu-gnome-desktop ubuntu-gnome-default-settings</code></pre>When prompted, select GDM as the default display manager. <br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you already had GDM installed and the package manager didn't prompt you to choose between LightDM and GDM or you've selected LightDM by mistake, you can run the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">And select GDM instead of LightDM (more about changing the display manager, <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/07/how-to-switch-between-gdm-lightdm-or.html" title="How To Switch Between GDM, LightDM Or KDM In Ubuntu [Quick Tip]">here</a>). You can use LightDM with GNOME Shell, but you won't get the complete GNOME 3 experience - for instance, GNOME Shell won't use the new GNOME 3.6 lock screen.</div><br />It is also a good idea to remove the "ubuntu-settings" package:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-settings</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Note that removing this package, the "ubuntu-desktop" package will be removed as well. This is just a meta package and your system shouldn't be affected by it.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The "ubuntu-settings" package is used to set various Ubuntu defaults, like the window button order, which Rhythmbox plugins are enabled by default and so on.</div><br /><br /><h3>Optional</h3><br /><b>2. Install missing GNOME 3 packages</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Even though they are part of the default GNOME 3 application stack, GNOME Documents and Boxes are not installed by default with the ubuntu-gnome-desktop package. Install them using the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install gnome-documents gnome-boxes</code></pre><b>Note: Boxes is only available on 64bit due to a bug!</b><br /><br /><b>3. Upgrade GNOME Control Center, Nautilus, Totem and other GNOME 3 packages to version 3.6.x</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Some packages in the Ubuntu 12.10 repositories aren't updated to the latest 3.6.x version. So, like we <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/how-to-install-nautilus-36-or-patched.html" title="How To Install Nautilus 3.6 Or Patched Nautilus 3.4 In Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal">wrote a while back</a>, you can use the GNOME3 PPA to upgrade these applications.</div><br />Add the PPA using the following command:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3</code></pre><br />Then, launch Software Updater from Dash / menu and use it to upgrade your packages.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The packages that will be upgraded once you add the PPA are: GNOME Control Center 3.6.3, Aisleriot 3.6.0, Brasero 3.6.0, Nautilus 3.6.3 and Totem 3.6.2. The PPA also provides Transmission 0.7.1, Transmageddon 0.23 and Sound Juicer 3.5.0.</div><br /><br /><b>4. Remove overlay scrollbars</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">One thing I've noticed after following the steps above myself, is that GNOME Shell continues to use Ubuntu's overlay scrollbars. If you want to use the GNOME 3 scrollbars instead, remove overlay scrollbars using the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get remove overlay-scrollbar*</code></pre><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Once you're done, restart your computer</b> (a logout may be enough for most stuff, but to get all the changes, including GDM for the login screen, a restart is probably a better idea) <b>and select "GNOME" from the login screen.</b></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>some info via Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10 <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/ReleaseNotes/12.10">release notes</a></i></div>

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Xnoise Media Player Gets New Album Art View

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Xnoise 0.2.13 has been released today, introducing a new Album Art view,</b> similar to the one available in Banshee or in Rhythmbox through the <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/09/coverart-browser-rhythmbox-plugin.html">CoverArt Browser plugin</a>, along with a <b>new application icon</b> created by <a href="https://plus.google.com/101681698460010159459/posts">Reda Lazri</a>.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The new Album Art view can be accessed from the toolbar/menu or by using the CTRL + B keyboard shortcut. There's an integrated search too, which supports searching for artist, album or track name so you don't have to exit the Album Art view to find out on which album you can find a certain track:</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="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9bfkZu5Dx1Q/UI7kDye75MI/AAAAAAAALa4/rxveU3WryNc/s1600/xnoise-album-browse.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="xnoise media player" border="0" height="221" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9bfkZu5Dx1Q/UI7kDye75MI/AAAAAAAALa4/rxveU3WryNc/s320/xnoise-album-browse.png" title="xnoise media player" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Xnoise album art view</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><a name='more'></a><b>Other changes in Xnoise 0.2.13:</b><br /><ul><li>Revamped 'Now Playing' image rendering with reflections</li><li>Add weblink to keyboard shortcuts in help menu</li><li>Use symbolic icon in volume slider</li><li>Implement MPRIS 2 seek</li><li>Enable support for more media types</li><li>Mingw compatibility fixes</li></ul><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="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-98IzgUMv4yA/UI7kLCiiSKI/AAAAAAAALbA/3cJh50ZFIXc/s1600/xnoise-icon.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="new xnoise icon" border="0" height="114" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-98IzgUMv4yA/UI7kLCiiSKI/AAAAAAAALbA/3cJh50ZFIXc/s320/xnoise-icon.png" title="new xnoise icon" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Xnoise icon</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Xnoise is a fast GTK+ media player written in Vala, which supports both music and video files</b>. It features automatic album art fetching, a nice "Now Playing" pane, media keys sypport, plugins for online services like UbuntuOne Music Store, Last.fm, Lyrics as well as Ubuntu integration such as Quicklists, HUD support, SoundMenu integration and notifications. </div><br />Here's a video recorded by the Xnoise developer, demoing some of the features available in the latest Xnoise 0.2.13:<br /><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ecy_cEVPxFw" width="420"></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecy_cEVPxFw">direct video link</a>)</center><br /><br /><h2>Install Xnoise in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OG0C7E1d6Wg/UI7nSlKx_yI/AAAAAAAALb8/o_WJfL-5cmY/s1600/xnoise-video.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="xnoise media player" border="0" height="203" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OG0C7E1d6Wg/UI7nSlKx_yI/AAAAAAAALb8/o_WJfL-5cmY/s320/xnoise-video.png" title="xnoise media player" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b>To install the latest Xnoise in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal or 12.04 Precise Pangolin, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shkn/xnoise<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install xnoise</code></pre><br />For other Linux distributions, get Xnoise source via <a href="https://github.com/shuerhaaken/xnoise/downloads">GitHub</a>.

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GPaste GNOME Shell Clipboard Manager Available For Ubuntu 12.10 (GNOME Shell 3.6)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-scRDEuF15MY/UI7F4trqYwI/AAAAAAAALZA/KyVZUHPe_ik/s1600/gpaste-2.9.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="gpaste" border="0" height="140" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-scRDEuF15MY/UI7F4trqYwI/AAAAAAAALZA/KyVZUHPe_ik/s320/gpaste-2.9.png" title="gpaste" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://github.com/Keruspe/GPaste">GPaste</a>, a native GNOME Shell clipboard manager, is now available for Ubuntu 12.10 / GNOME Shell 3.6 through the WebUpd8 GNOME 3 PPA.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">GPaste features uris support (remembers copied files, not just text), a command line tool, option to backup / restore clipboard history, image support and other useful options.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><h2>Install GPaste in Ubuntu 12.10</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To install GPaste in Ubuntu 12.10 (with GNOME Shell 3.6), use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/gnome3<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install gnome-shell-extensions-gpaste</code></pre><br />Once installed, enable the extension using <a href="https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/gnome-tweak-tool/">GNOME Tweak Tool</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Note: there's a memory leak when enabling the image support (it occurs when taking a screenshot for instance). For this reason, I've disabled it by default in GPaste package available in our PPA but you can enable it from the GPaste settings if you want to use it anyway.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Unfortunately, the latest GPaste 2.9 doesn't compile successfully for Ubuntu 12.04, that's why the latest version is only available for Ubuntu 12.10.</i></div>

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Tweak Unity With Unsettings 0.08, Now With Ubuntu 12.10 Support

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yvW0Zf-JRow/UI6hvztgTcI/AAAAAAAALXk/U2_0VeEh5AY/s1600/unsettings.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="unsettings" border="0" height="241" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yvW0Zf-JRow/UI6hvztgTcI/AAAAAAAALXk/U2_0VeEh5AY/s320/unsettings.png" title="unsettings" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Unsettings, a tool that lets you tweak Unity, has reached version 0.08, getting support for Unity 6 and thus Ubuntu 12.10.</b></div><br /><b>Unsettings 0.08 brings some new features as well:</b><br /><ul><li>option to force fast minimize animation</li><li>option to force low graphics mode</li><li>show real name on panel</li><li>option to disable online search results in Dash</li><li>Unity WebApps support</li><li>UI tweaks</li><li>more </li></ul><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Unsettings can be used to tweak most Unity settings, like disabling the global menu or overlay scrollbars, change the GTK or icon theme and many others. <b>Here's a list of Unsettings features:</b></div><ul><li>Launcher look: change size, opacity, background colour</li><li>Launcher behaviour: change visibility, reveal trigger, edge responsiveness, reveal pressure, autohide animation, urgent animation, launch animation, backlight mode</li><li>Dash: change size, blur, enable or disable apps available for download, recently used apps, search all files, online search results</li><li>Panel: change opacity, opaque if maximized, show real name on the panel, show/hide battery status and an option to whitelist application to show up in the systray</li><li>Indicators: show/hide bluetooth and sound indicators, set which media players are ignored by the Ubuntu sound indicator</li><li>Fonts: change the font (for the desktop, window title, monospaced, etc.), hinting and antialiasing</li><li>Windows: set minimize animation, overlay scrollbars behaviour (including an option to disable it), enable/disable global menu, HUD, click to focus, auto raise, set the automaximize value</li><li>Desktop: change the number of workspaces, enable/disable icons on the desktop, shortcut overlay, alt-tab behaviour, set the next monitor pressure</li><li>Web Apps: enable/disable webapps, set pre-authorized web apps, enable or disable specified web apps</li><li>Themes: options to change the theme: GTK, window, icon or cursor theme. There's also an option to force low graphics mode</li><li>GTK: show mnemonics, display icons in buttons or menus, cursor blink.</li></ul><br />A few more Unsettings screenshots:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tvk6QduEEwM/UI6h2QcgZrI/AAAAAAAALXs/_hnnEe4q5yQ/s1600/unsettings_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="unsettings" border="0" height="238" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tvk6QduEEwM/UI6h2QcgZrI/AAAAAAAALXs/_hnnEe4q5yQ/s320/unsettings_1.png" title="unsettings" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QRZMQHE7pw8/UI6h3XEs9vI/AAAAAAAALXw/x4SGqPoPYhw/s1600/unsettings_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="unsettings" border="0" height="237" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QRZMQHE7pw8/UI6h3XEs9vI/AAAAAAAALXw/x4SGqPoPYhw/s320/unsettings_2.png" title="unsettings" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y8JwgFRNc_M/UI6h4YOgDoI/AAAAAAAALX4/VDDCMnfp4Ng/s1600/unsettings_3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="unsettings" border="0" height="237" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y8JwgFRNc_M/UI6h4YOgDoI/AAAAAAAALX4/VDDCMnfp4Ng/s320/unsettings_3.png" title="unsettings" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0kC_DzUHLZw/UI6h5Hwt4ZI/AAAAAAAALYA/PWVntb7xE3w/s1600/unsettings_4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="unsettings" border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0kC_DzUHLZw/UI6h5Hwt4ZI/AAAAAAAALYA/PWVntb7xE3w/s320/unsettings_4.png" title="unsettings" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Unsettings</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Unsettings 0.08 supports Ubuntu 12.10, 12.04 and 11.10, but obviously the options available in Unsettings depend on the Unity version you're using. <b>To add the PPA and install the latest Unsettings, use the commands below:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:diesch/testing<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install unsettings</code></pre><br />You can also download Unsettings without adding the PPA, from <a href="http://florian-diesch.de/software/unsettings/index.html">HERE</a>.<br /><br />If you encounter bugs, report them @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/unsettings">Launchpad</a>.

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The Faience Pack Gets A Beautiful New GTK3 Theme, GNOME Shell And Icon Themes Updated

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Faience pack</b> has been updated today with new and improved icons for the icon theme, <b>GNOME Shell 3.6 support for the GS theme </b>and there's also a <b>beautiful new GTK3 theme</b>.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aOzb7jpe-Zs/UI6UveDInDI/AAAAAAAALWA/08b7m4K_5_s/s1600/faience.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="faience icon theme" border="0" height="160" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aOzb7jpe-Zs/UI6UveDInDI/AAAAAAAALWA/08b7m4K_5_s/s320/faience.png" title="faience icon theme" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><b>New in <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/08/faience-new-gnome-3-icon-theme-by.html">Faience icon theme</a> 0.5:</b><br /><ul><li>New design for the desktop, remote desktop, wallpaper, GDM setup, session properties, Terminal, Xterm, Twitter, Spotify and adressbook icons</li><li>Updated blue folders color</li><li>Icons for the system settings categories on Ubuntu</li></ul><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The <b>Faience GNOME Shell theme</b> has been updated as well, and it now supports GNOME Shell 3.6 (for GNOME Shell 3.4, use the old theme version as this one won't work!):</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VQ6BVjLrp5s/UI6U0aG6bpI/AAAAAAAALWI/b7e29ZrcUjM/s1600/faience-gnome-shell.png" imageanchor="1"><img alt="faience gnome shell theme" border="0" height="180" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VQ6BVjLrp5s/UI6U0aG6bpI/AAAAAAAALWI/b7e29ZrcUjM/s320/faience-gnome-shell.png" title="faience gnome shell theme" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lOV1Vjx2sJc/UI6U1Ta8YII/AAAAAAAALWQ/m-i4AoOhZwI/s1600/faience-gnome-shell_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lOV1Vjx2sJc/UI6U1Ta8YII/AAAAAAAALWQ/m-i4AoOhZwI/s320/faience-gnome-shell_2.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The GTK3 / Metacity theme will probably remind you of the beautiful Equinox GTK2 themes, designed by the same Tiheum, which were very popular in the GTK2 era, but weren't updated for GTK3. Here's the new <b>Faience GTK theme</b> which includes GTK3 (GTK 3.6), GTK2 and Metacity themes:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PvmlcCM6AQw/UI6U7ioG5yI/AAAAAAAALWY/Sj6C3sbuB10/s1600/faience-gtk-theme.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="faience gtk theme" border="0" height="180" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PvmlcCM6AQw/UI6U7ioG5yI/AAAAAAAALWY/Sj6C3sbuB10/s320/faience-gtk-theme.png" title="faience gtk theme" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bHpE13CNT54/UI6U8pKk-RI/AAAAAAAALWc/LwZ9_kyABjE/s1600/faience-gtk-theme_twf.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="faience gtk theme" border="0" height="222" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bHpE13CNT54/UI6U8pKk-RI/AAAAAAAALWc/LwZ9_kyABjE/s320/faience-gtk-theme_twf.png" title="faience gtk theme" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">There's also a <b>dark Faience GTK theme</b>, used by the applications that specifically request a dark theme (like EOG for instance), which can be forced by using GNOME Tweak Tool (<i>Theme > Enable dark theme for all applications</i>), but the dark window titlebar is only available for GNOME Shell so in other desktop environments, you'll get a dark theme with a light titlebar.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here's how the dark Faience GTK theme looks like in GNOME Shell:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9t_rTfWWWds/UI7KUQR_uGI/AAAAAAAALZ8/9rE4tXhGs4E/s1600/faience-dark.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="faience gtk theme dark" border="0" height="244" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9t_rTfWWWds/UI7KUQR_uGI/AAAAAAAALZ8/9rE4tXhGs4E/s320/faience-dark.png" title="faience gtk theme dark" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bczDLaYQIHY/UI6VOS0X5LI/AAAAAAAALWo/-c_nzh-0tyA/s1600/faenza.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bczDLaYQIHY/UI6VOS0X5LI/AAAAAAAALWo/-c_nzh-0tyA/s320/faenza.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b>The Faenza icon theme has been updated as well and includes:</b><br /><ul><li>New app icons: UbuntuOne Music, Ubuntu Online Accounts</li><li>New design for Twitter, Spotify and Addressbook icons</li><li>Icons for the system settings categories on Ubuntu</li></ul><br /><br /><h2>Install Faience pack and Faenza icon theme in Ubuntu</h2><br /><b>To add the official Faience / Faenza PPA in Ubuntu, use the following commands:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tiheum/equinox<br />sudo apt-get update</code></pre><br />Then, to install the Faience icon theme, use the following command:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install faience-icon-theme</code></pre><br />To install Faience GTK3 and GNOME Shell themes, use (for GNOME 3.6 only!):<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install faience-theme</code></pre><br />And finally, to install the Faenza icon theme:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install faenza-icon-theme</code></pre><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To change the icon theme, GTK theme or GNOME Shell theme, install an application like <a href="https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/gnome-tweak-tool/">GNOME Tweak Tool</a> (for the GNOME Shell theme you'll also need the <a href="https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/19/user-themes/">User Themes</a> extension).</div><br /><b>For other Linux distributions, you'll find download links below:</b><br /><ul><li><a href="http://tiheum.deviantart.com/art/Faience-icon-theme-255099649">Faience icon theme</a></li><li><a href="http://tiheum.deviantart.com/art/GTK3-Gnome-Shell-Faience-255097456">Faience GNOME Shell and GTK3 themes</a></li><li><a href="http://tiheum.deviantart.com/art/Faenza-Icons-173323228">Faenza icon theme</a></li></ul>

The Faience Pack Gets A Beautiful New GTK3 Theme, GNOME Shell And Icon Themes Updated

The Faience pack has been updated today with new and improved icons for the icon theme, GNOME Shell 3.6 support for the GS theme and there&...

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