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Usually, icons play a relevant role on the desktop, enriching the desktop's look & feel with fancy shapes, pleasant-to-the-eye colors, proper occupation of panels, etc, consequently, while searching a modern intuitive yet "entertaining" desktop, the user is to install various icon themes (in order to tune the desktop to use cases, artistic "requirements", casual moods, etc).

Sigil is a powerful free open-source EPUB editor, presenting the user a solid amount of features, such as full EPUB 2 support, WYSIWYG editor, table-of-contents generator, multiple views (preview view, code view, etc), spell checking, document validation, metadata editor, etc, basically, a full-of-features intuitive EPUB editing experience.

Ubuntu offers a pleasant-to-the-eye set of default wallpapers, aspect that can be enriched via numerous wallpaper-related applications (focused on both gathering images from online and offline sources, as well as creating slideshows).

Nevertheless, there are users "demanding" extra (as related to the used desktop wallpaper), extra in the sense of more-than-an-image, approach that can be satisfied via LiveWallpaper.

The Dash (by default) gathers and exposes installed applications, allowing users to easily launch preferred apps, apps "delivered" by Ubuntu Software Center, PPAs, DEB packages, etc.

While most applications come with a launcher (displayed in the Dash), there are custom scripts, executables, etc, that demand a launcher (for a hassle-free experience), approach successfully "met" by MenuLibre, a handy intuitive full-of-features menu editor, capable of creating launchers in a matter of seconds.

We, as Ubuntu users, are living, aren't we, in the "open", enjoying thousands and thousands of free open-source applications, that offer a powerful, qualitative, secure and satisfying computer experience.

Nevertheless, while security, productivity, web-browsing, document-creation, etc wise, the "open" is a no-compromise platform, there are niches that are (were) untouchable by the open-source software.

While a niche is a niche (a small portion of "something"), due to the modern world's tendencies, it seems that various niche pieces are gathering interest.

Days ago, the internets have "seen" an increased interest and positive feedback, as generated by various clips and images (demoing an Asus Nexus 7 tablet running Ubuntu).

Shortly, along with to-follow informations, the developers have both created and (initially) populated two official PPAs, containing Nexus 7-related packages.

Days ago, an exciting Youtube clip triggered a solid amount of positive reactions, clip demoing an Ubuntu-powered Nexus 7 tablet (with usable workspace switcher, successful Firefox launch, etc), demo followed by official statements (related to an upcoming in-depth demo/presentation at Ubuntu Developers Summit, starting on October 29th 2012).

Ubuntu Open Week is an interesting series of Ubuntu-related events, events that gather and act as a communication "ground" for developers and community members, aiming at aligning various Ubuntu pieces (such as development, quality assurance, women team) to a specific time period (generating an up-to-date presentation of certain events).

Clementine is a powerful music player, featuring a massive amount of functionalities, functionalities exposed via a clear pleasant-to-the-eye intuitive interface.

Clementine 1.1 has been released, presenting itself as a solid version with new features, refined usage behavior and numerous fixes.

The newly released 1.1 version takes the already-present online services integration to an enhanced level, introducing support for podcasts, Soundcloud and JAZZRADIO.com.

Reading AZW, AZW3, EPUB, FB2, LIT, MOBI, PRC, SNB, etc, file formats, converting e-books, managing (on demand) a massive book library, fetching news from online sources, in-depth editing metadata, etc, are actions that can be performed via Calibre, definitely a powerful full-fledged versatile e-book library management utility, an all-in-one high-quality book digesting experience.