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Unity Privacy Indicator: Quickly Enable Or Disable Dash Online Search Results Or Zeitgeist Logging

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLzLSKS6xHvS07HVG48HQS8h_BNW3VnXM3RfPxK2gCMro00Q4gyYjpXMHYNvimy0FhQdDJ5cBORCMZspsZbSNdDlpRKabGfV7Am5uNTmWhr1imbeRwRUJd65IYG8IlDr8zMn8hBJkDEK2w/s1600/privacy-indicator.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="ubuntu privacy indicator" border="0" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLzLSKS6xHvS07HVG48HQS8h_BNW3VnXM3RfPxK2gCMro00Q4gyYjpXMHYNvimy0FhQdDJ5cBORCMZspsZbSNdDlpRKabGfV7Am5uNTmWhr1imbeRwRUJd65IYG8IlDr8zMn8hBJkDEK2w/s320/privacy-indicator.png" title="ubuntu privacy indicator" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Privacy Indicator is an Ubuntu AppIndicator especially created to control some privacy aspects of Unity.</b></div><br /><b>The AppIndicator can be used to enable or disable:</b><br /><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">Dash online search results;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Zeitgeist logging (so when you disable this, all files you access won't be logged by Zeitgeist and thus, will not show up in Dash or any other applications that make use of Zeitgeist);</li><li style="text-align: justify;">show real name on the Unity panel.</li></ul><b>After a recent update, the indicator can also clear the Zeitgeist log and recent files (from the new Nautilus 3.6 sidebar, etc.). </b><br /><ul></ul><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">That's all the Privacy Indicator does for now but if you have an idea for some other privacy-related settings, submit a bug report on <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-privacy">Launchpad</a>. </div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">These settings are already available either via <i>GNOME Control Center > Privacy </i>(for enabling / disabling online search results or disabling Zeitgeist) or Dconf-editor, but using Privacy Indicator, you can quickly enable or disable these features which can be useful in various cases, for example if you often need to disable Zeitgeist, etc.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Privacy Indicator in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Privacy Indicator can be installed in Ubuntu 12.10 or 13.04 using its official PPA - add it and install Privacy Indicator using the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:diesch/testing<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install indicator-privacy</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you don't want to add the PPA (but without adding the PPA, you won't get automatic updates), <b>you can also download the Privacy Indicator deb from <a href="http://www.florian-diesch.de/software/indicator-privacy/">HERE</a></b> (look at the bottom of the page).</div>

Unity Privacy Indicator: Quickly Enable Or Disable Dash Online Search Results Or Zeitgeist Logging

Privacy Indicator is an Ubuntu AppIndicator especially created to control some privacy aspects of Unity. The AppIndicator can be used to ena...

<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGZO40igSSiwOpvhzPPa6BV31l2OnZ8bYCe0LnLONyHJpmmUtlDq9bsPY3KxY0A6oL_kgQocoZWELCWkDCfMSe4CtK0pHgjJIR8hDffj4eU44Uwa-3Y9ozo4kk1atHOlM9fYM-2v84OC32/s1600/rhythmbox-previews-dash.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="rhythmbox previews unity dash" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGZO40igSSiwOpvhzPPa6BV31l2OnZ8bYCe0LnLONyHJpmmUtlDq9bsPY3KxY0A6oL_kgQocoZWELCWkDCfMSe4CtK0pHgjJIR8hDffj4eU44Uwa-3Y9ozo4kk1atHOlM9fYM-2v84OC32/s320/rhythmbox-previews-dash.png" title="rhythmbox previews unity dash" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b>A cool new feature has landed in the Unity Staging PPA, for Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal: previews in Dash.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>With the new "previews" feature, you'll be able 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.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">For instance, right clicking an application displays a screenshot as well as user ratings, its description and so on. If the application is not installed, there's also a button to install it directly from Dash, without using Ubuntu Software Center or, if it's installed, you can launch or uninstall it:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKlaog1OC83F58yYrQJyWgl4wsnLYiPounspgtnUhJTIfy-_h-1flBPsYa3yHd7B7Ih8Lxq40LGaeO83wUzBZXSD0bHT0CDlRlRc8iU-v2UenhLt_WQPK8boW6qBsQGvJpSi3M3t6OJrpA/s1600/thunderbird.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="ubuntu quantal: unity lens dash previews" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKlaog1OC83F58yYrQJyWgl4wsnLYiPounspgtnUhJTIfy-_h-1flBPsYa3yHd7B7Ih8Lxq40LGaeO83wUzBZXSD0bHT0CDlRlRc8iU-v2UenhLt_WQPK8boW6qBsQGvJpSi3M3t6OJrpA/s320/thunderbird.png" title="ubuntu quantal: unity lens dash previews" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you right click a music file or album from the music lens, you get a large album cover image as well as the available tracks and options to play it or show the files in folder:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-vagg1LiM5t8f4rN5VBYoLfPD0joiSs8_QFRd7aLxiWTelBse5kqtfXkk4xoP7_rZqwEwvKA4V3MsssKkDQqfgLWExTZPrpE54K4FgHMPib-tg966ncNvwQskR3GDl_l9-F6JNrIdYrxQ/s1600/music.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="ubuntu quantal: unity lens dash previews" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-vagg1LiM5t8f4rN5VBYoLfPD0joiSs8_QFRd7aLxiWTelBse5kqtfXkk4xoP7_rZqwEwvKA4V3MsssKkDQqfgLWExTZPrpE54K4FgHMPib-tg966ncNvwQskR3GDl_l9-F6JNrIdYrxQ/s320/music.png" title="ubuntu quantal: unity lens dash previews" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In my test, using the latest Unity from the Unity Staging PPA, the music starts playing in Rhythmbox and not in Dash, but hopefully users will be able to play the music directly in Dash, or at least preview it.</div><br /><br /><h2>Video: Unity with the new "previews" Dash feature</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Here's a video I've recorded using the latest Unity from trunk with the new "previews" feature:</div><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/WC2f_Xy_g5s" width="420"></iframe><br />(<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC2f_Xy_g5s">direct video link</a>)</center><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Important:</b> "previews" hasn't landed in Ubuntu 12.10 yet and is currently under heavy development, so in the video you'll notice many bugs and as well as things that will change until the final Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal is released. In the video you'll also notice that the Unity launcher icons use a background for running applications only - I'm not sure if this is a bug or an intentional change.</div><br /><br /><b>Currently, the previews work for:</b><br /><ul><li>applications (both installed and suggested)</li><li>music (installed and available for download via Ubuntu One Music Store)</li><li>videos</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The previews don't work for regular files or folders, but hopefully this will change soon. And not just for the default lenses, I'm sure we'll see some great new Unity lenses created for Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal that will make use of this cool new feature, so you'll be able to read the latest news for instance, from Dash, without having to open a browser.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install Unity with Previews</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The new "previews" feature hasn't landed in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal yet, but it will probably be available very soon. Until then, if you want to test it, you can use the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~unity-team/+archive/staging">Unity Staging PPA</a> in a virtual machine for instance (do not use it on a production machine, the builds in this PPA are highly unstable!).</div><br /><i>The <a href="https://launchpad.net/~unity-team/+archive/staging">Unity Staging PPA</a> contains the latest Unity builds generated from trunk, that have passed the unit tests, but didn't pass the user acceptance (autopilot) tests yet. Only use it for testing only!</i><br /><br />

Unity: Dash Gets A Cool New Previews Feature [Video] - Ubuntu 12.10 Development

A cool new feature has landed in the Unity Staging PPA, for Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal: previews in Dash. With the new "previews...

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