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Launching applications, summoning running apps in Spread, accessing commonly-used functionalities via quicklists, etc, are actions available via the Unity launcher, polished, intuitive and effective desktop component.

Furthermore, the Unity launcher attracted, since its release, numerous and numerous opinions, suggestions, demands, etc, overall positive feedback sometimes paired with creative mockups.

Via Ubuntu Software Center, the user is able to install Epiphany, lightweight, simplistic yet effective web-browser.

Starting months ago, Epiphany has been (and it is) subjected to a serious redesign process, gradually receiving both under-the-hood changes and visual refinements, including sped-dial like view, monochrome navigation icons, improved fullscreen mode, etc, basically, relevant enhancements.

While enjoying Unity, the user is able to deal with, manage and access both active and non-active applications via the Unity launcher.

By simply right-clicking on a Unity launcher icon, users access the clicked app's quicklist, where useful entries are available, including the ability to launch a new instance of an application, open folders, performing actions, etc.

Furthermore, the Spread offers a handy manner of grouping running apps into a filling-the-desktop view, where the whole spectrum of apps are 1-shortcut away.

January 2nd 2013 witnessed the successful announcement of Ubuntu for phones, polished innovative technology designed in mind with imprinting years of Ubuntu development and experience into a phone form-factor, essentially, pure Ubuntu OS for phones.

Ubuntu 12.10 introduced the Unity Previews, a handy elegant manner of exposing relevant content details directly into the Dash, furthermore, when right-clicking on items, shifting the full-of-icons Dash view to a dedicated Preview view.

As we can easily observe, Unity is a piece of software that has been adopted by millions and millions of users and, filtered through creative developers' hands, generated numerous and numerous lenses, mockups, should-bes, shouldn't-bes, essentially, a vast amount of both ideas and potential functionalities.

Creative ideas are definitely an important aspect of a healthy community, creativity that can be used by people and/or teams of people to develop new and interesting applications, tools, utilities, interfaces, etc.

Furthermore, exposed creativity can generate feedback, helping the developer to adjust parts of the presented app, in & out movement useful to polish various corners of mockups/initially-released apps, etc.

System Settings houses an Appearance sub-panel, where users can select backgrounds, used GTK+ themes, launcher icon size, launcher auto-hide ON/OFF, etc, essentially, a basic-yet-relevant set of options.

Creating an ODT document, exporting a DOC as PDF, editing a slideshow, etc, are actions fully and easily performed via LibreOffice, a full-fledged versatile office suite, available in Ubuntu by default.

LibreOffice can be characterized as a software project where development contributions and additions are constantly landed, approach materialized in stable, filled-with-features LibreOffice releases.

Ubuntu ships by default LibreOffice, a powerful full-fledged office suite that incorporates a wide range of functionalities, features, tools, etc, bundle of functionalities constantly developed by a massive group of developers.

Since its implementation in Ubuntu, users, across the web, have generated complains related to LibreOffice's look, mainly in expression similar to "LibreOffice is great, powerful, fast, yet its look must be aligned with its features".

Unity is Ubuntu's default interface that allows users, along with numerous functionalities, to access applications via its launcher, access helped by tooltips, progressbar, badges, "accordion effect", etc.

Along with millions and millions of users, it seems that Unity is attracting artists also, that, usually via mockups, express a creative vision "implemented" in what-should-be, as related to the artist's view.