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Swiping gestures, polished elements, fast element interactions are features already implemented in Ubuntu Touch, OS that presents itself as innovative, modern and beautiful.

A solid team of developers (coders and designers) has started to work on creating an upcoming version of a System Settings app for Ubuntu Touch, creating from scratch a place that is to house settings (system's and apps').

It is now a clear fact that Ubuntu SDK is more than capable (work in progress) of creating interesting applications ranging from converters, players, educational utilities, to calculus tools and chat clients.

Moreover, the developers are progressively adding new features and capabilities for the SDK, allowing interested third-party developers to extend their app creation's horizon.

Across the latest months, the developers have worked on creating the Smart Scopes project, exciting project aimed at significantly extending the Dash's search capabilities.

Essentially, Ubuntu 13.10 will incorporate by default numerous scopes (data sources),--both local and online--, allowing the user to hassle-free search through both local and online data sources, such as Clementine, Wikipedia, Yahoo! Finance, Gourmet, deviantART, IMDb, etc.

Months ago, Canonical organized the first Ubuntu App Showdown contest, gathering interested third-party developers into an app-creation contest.

Basically, third-party developers created a significant number of applications (more than 140 usable apps), apps landed in Ubuntu Software Center (certain apps) and/or available via PPAs.

Changing themes, modifying the brightness, adjusting sound parameters are actions available via System Settings, application installed by default in Ubuntu (the desktop).

Yet, Ubuntu's converged vision is rapidly advancing with new features gained each and each week, converged vision that is to center a more modem, polished and fresh interface.

As a consequence, the developers have already started to work on a System Settings application for Ubuntu Touch, app that is to be used on phones, tablets, etc.

Days ago, the developers announced the exciting news of Mir's reaching a new level of development, namely, being able to be successfully paired with Unity 8, while running on devices.

Mozilla has updated Firefox to version 21, release that refines and enriches Firefox with new features and enhancements.

Months ago, Firefox introduced the Social API, basically, incorporating Facebook messaging capabilities into the browser (thus users have been able to communicate with Facebook contacts via a dedicated sidebar).

Ubuntu for phones and Ubuntu for tablets have started a solid movement in the Ubuntu world, announcements progressively paired with new and new features, abilities and tools.

It seems that Ubuntu Touch is to probably gain a full-spectrum approach, incorporating new original currently-in-progress components, including UnityNext, Mir and (probably) Click packages.

Essentially, the Click packages have been designed (presently, in a concept stage) in mind with being a packaging format/type for Ubuntu mobile applications.

Phones, tablets, desktops are among the interfaces supported by Ubuntu via the recently-announced upcoming converged experience.

Logging into Ubuntu, the user is immediately faced with content, opening the Dash, various lenses and categories reveal images, video-clips, text documents, folders, etc, overall content clearly exposed in the Dash.

Yet, with the converged experience and Ubuntu's future cross-form-factor capabilities, the content (and sharing content) becomes crucial as a link (as shared or not) between phones and desktops, tablets and TVs, etc.

Hours ago, the first day of the online UDS reached its completion, gathering numerous Ubuntu developers into a friendly series of discussions about the overall Ubuntu project.

Day after day, week after week, month after month, Ubuntu receives new features, new releases, new bold focuses, effort aimed at expressing Ubuntu as a powerful, versatile and solid operating system.