10 of the Best Unity Lenses & Scopes for Ubuntu 11.10. It’s somewhat apt that Ubuntu’s ‘Lenses’ feature has brought Unity into clearer focus for many of its initial critics.
The search-orientated display windows – called ‘Lenses’ – make finding specific files, apps or information easy to do thanks to their tuned ‘search backends’ – called Scopes’. Below are 10 of the best Lenses and Scopes available for Ubuntu 11.10. Before going any further you will need to add the following ‘Super Lens’ PPA to your Software Sources so you can take advantage of the ‘one click install’ buttons used in this article. Open up a new Terminal window and enter the following command as is: - sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jsevi83/unity && sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/lenses && sudo apt-get update Lastly, be aware that installed Lens and Scopes will not work until you have logged out and back in. Graphic Design Lens The Graphic Design Lens is a veritable paintbox of inspiration having been designed to assist designers in finding resources to aid in their creativity. Ubuntu 12.10 to Feature Innovative Web App Integration.
See the bar of innovation? Ubuntu has just raised it again with the unveiling of new ‘web apps’ feature to debut in Ubuntu 12.10. The feature allows webapps, sites and services to integrate directly into the Ubuntu desktop to take advantage of Ubuntu technology such as the app menu, the HUD, the Messaging Menu, Sound Menu, Quicklists, etc So, for example… You open Last.Fm and start playing music > player controls for the site appear in the Sound MenuFacebook open in a browser tab > notifications of new messages appear in the Messaging MenuGet BBC News alerts via Notification BubblesSearch your Google Docs files via the Dash You can use Alt+Tab to switch between integrated sites just as though they were normal apps, and you can use the HUD to access common actions on certain websites/services – such as ‘compose new message’ in GMail.
And for added speed you can even pin your favourites to the Launcher. And the best part? Click No and the website and your desktop remain separate. Unity Contacts lens brings Ubuntu One and Google Contacts into the Dash. Unity Contacts lens is a global place where various contacts are easily searchable and editable.
The lens is quite powerful, power generated by its scopes Desktop Contacts a scope that brings Ubuntu One Database's contacts into the lens, meaning, all the contacts created inside Ubuntu One or synced with (regardless of used applications)Google Contacts that gathers contacts from your Google account How do we use Unity Contacts lens? To put contacts into the lens, we have lots of choices: via every application capable of Ubuntu One contacts sync (thus providing lots of flexibility)via Thunderbird (Ubuntu One) open Ubuntu One and check Enable Contacts Sync, then simply create contacts from within Thunderbird, bearing in mind that, in order to be displayed on the Contacts lens, the contacts must be created inside Ubuntu One category via Ubuntu One web-site under Contacts page The above presented method will list the added items under Unity Contacts lens' Contacts category.
Customizing gedit as a Web Developer's IDE. As a web developer and programmer, I prefer to use a powerful text editor over WYSIWYG software.
I write code using HTML/XHTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, Ruby, etc. The standard text editor that comes with GNOME is much more powerful than you may know. This article is written to illustrate how you can configure gedit for use as a powerful, stable web developer's text editor. Features By using the plug-ins and settings as I discuss in this post, gedit has the following features as a web developer's text editor.
Preferences At first glance, gedit just looks like your typical text editor. Personally, I like to have the following preferences set: View Uncheck "Enable text wrapping" Check "Display line numbers" Check "Highlight current line" Check "Display right margin" and set to 80. Plugins. Ubuntu. Ubuntu Tweak. Pam-face-authentication.org - The pluggable authentication module for face authentication. SlowmoVideo.granjow.net. Installing Shotwell.