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Ubuntu 11.10 provides sane default configurations from an UI point-of-view, but lacks in terms of advanced default configuration tools (that are to be addressed in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin).

How can we change GTK+ themes, fonts, icons in Oneiric Ocelot?

GNOME-Pie is an alternative to semantic launchers (such as Synapse, Kupfer, GNOME-Do) that acts like a circle with applications, bookmarks, etc floating around it, approach based on Fitts' law.

GNOME-Pie 0.2 has just been released presenting itself as a usable polished app (with numerous options to tweak and configure), although in its early beginnings.

Ubuntu 11.10 is out and filled with GNOME 3 featuring the gorgeous Unity 3D shell (by default) and an optimized panel, Unity panel.

Unity panel introduced a new placement for indicator, new transparent buttons when the Dash is active but the "alien" themes are not quite integrated in term of Unity panel which display fallback buttons when the window is in fullscreen mode.

This can be easily fixed for most of the GTK+3 themes via few easy steps (this "demo" provides the adjustments for Zukitwo):

These are great days when one can actually observe a real expansion in the adoption of various Ubuntu pieces or Ubuntu itself.

Months ago, the Ubuntu Font Family was added to Google Webfonts directory (for web-sites to easily benefit it) and has started to be used by a huge number of web-sites reaching an impressive count, "this week the total to date reached over one billion requests".

At the beginning of 2011, Mozilla Firefox met WebGL, a technology that allows web-browsers to display hardware-accelerated 3D graphics without the need for third-party software.

GTK+ 3 introduced the "Broadway" backend that allows various applications like The GIMP, Calculator, etc to run in a web-browser (in its early beginnings at the moment).

The Document Foundation demonstrates the power and the adaptability of LibreOffice and has just released a video showing the LibreOffice Online Prototype based on GTK+ framework and HTML5's canvas, built on the "Broadway" backend.

Opera Next 12 ALPHA is out and ready for download with impresive new modernistic features as following the "Up North Web" event's statements.

What is new in Opera 12 ALPHA?

The notorious icon theme, Faenza, has reached yet another release, 1.1 version, packed with numerous goodies and needed changes (for Ubuntu 11.10).

What is new in Faenza 1.1?

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot has just been released, making its way towards millions and millions of folks all over the world.

What should we do after the install, from a customization point-of-view?

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot is the link between Ubuntu 11.104 Natty Narwhal and the next LTS, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin.

Natty represents the first Unity implementation with natural first time release-related bugs, bugs fixed in Oneiric Ocelot, that is here to provide a stable platform with extra features and new design parts.

What is new in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot?

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