Today I recorded a short screencast that showcases some of the excellent work going into Unity and that is available in the Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal developer version of Ubuntu.
Check it out:
Can’t see it? See it here
I will be doing a series of these videocasts throughout the cycle, so expect to see more soon!
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May I suggest using a video provider that does not insert ads such as Vimeo?
Unity looks nice. Thanks!
I second that!
I second that. WTF
Will there be an option to have unity launcher on the right of the screen ? This would be really nice and IMHO be even more out of the way of the user, for at least two reasons :
At least an option would be really cool.
Whenever I see Unity in action, I think that the icons on the desktop should be aligned on the right side of the screen (as it is the case in Mac OS).
With the icons on the left, it looks so cluttered.
I know I should file a bug…
Yes, or put the panel on the right side 🙂
Mmm, this sounds like a papercut bug. The code change to change it should be a one liner, call it another 30 to create a gconf pref.
Nice one! A few times you talked a bit fast – with your accent I assume this could be difficult to understand for some users. 😉
“Test via USB” would make more sense if the open drivers would come with (experimental, unstable, unsupported, yet working) 3D support enabled. 😉
It looks a lot better on your screen than on mine. Most of the icons and panel labels are corrupted for me.
And what’s with the diet soup ad? Kind of tacky to make us sit through a naff ad before watching the screencast isn’t it?
Oddly, I got no ad. I have no idea why.
Jono, Any plans to add transparency to the top bar and windows? Any plans to improve the current theme/icon set?
Nice video!
It looks pretty slick with the animations and everything.
This is the first time when I looked at Unity and thought “it’s going to rock” instead of my old opinion “oh no, it’s going to suck”; I think it’s the auto-hiding launcher that did it.
I notice that you use the mouse to drag the scrollbar handles. I do that too, sometimes. Remember the blog post about new Ubuntu themes with narrow scrollbars because everyone uses mouse wheels/touchpads for scrolling? Heh.
Would be nice to have an OGG/WebM video version too 🙂
WebM seems unlikely; it isn’t even supported in the released version of Ubuntu.
Unity is looking good. Thanks for recording this screen cast Jono. 🙂
I particularly like the intellihide feature.
As with previous comments, Unity is looking nice and thanks for the video. Looking forward to it.
Keep up work with the Software Centre as well. Nice work Jono. Thanks.