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The Ubuntu development version, Saucy Salamander, is currently being subjected to exciting upcoming features, among which the Smart Scopes project.

Essentially, the Smart Scopes are to massively extend the Dash's search capabilities with tens of new scopes (data sources), as well as providing an intelligent manner of selecting, managing and displaying relevant search results in the Dash.

Ubuntu (with Unity) is a versatile, powerful and polished operating system, overall professional OS achieved with a serious look at both critical components and details, work aimed at (and successfully implemented) carefully crafting all Ubuntu components.

Symbols, ideals, concepts, etc, overall patterns created by human beings from the beginning of time, have shaped us, patterns observable in all the aspects of life, including architecture, mathematics, society structure, etc.

Numerous new features have already landed in Raring Ringtail, including fancy animations for Previews, error-tolerant libcolumbus library, new icons for lenses and Ubuntu logo, refined and enriched window-management behavior, etc.

Yet, it seems that high-performance is a current development effort in Ubuntu 13.04, performance enriched in the newly-released Unity 7 (via the regular updates).

Along with Unity Previews, faster Dash, new icons for lenses and BFB, Unity, across the Raring Ringtail development cycle, has received a serious attention on details, especially related to desktop behavior and user interaction.

Weeks ago, Unity gained enriched Unity launcher quicklists, meaning, having simultaneously opened multiple windows of the same application, exposes the name of those windows as Unity launcher quicklist entries.

Across the Raring Ringtail development cycle, Unity has received interesting changes, optimizations and features, including refined Unity Previews, Ayatana Overlay Scrollbars support, new lens icons, etc, additions beautifying the modern, intuitive interface.

Yet, the developers approached Ubuntu 13.04's Unity through an interaction behavior point-of-view, too, significantly improving the manner of dealing with the launcher, as well as managing and launching windows (applications).

Sometimes, it seems that minor features are able to draw a clear difference between a regular desktop and a highly-usable desktop, latter that contains worked-on-detail elements, in order to immediately familiarize the user with its features and intentions, as well as removing from the experienced user's shoulders the burden of double/triple-checking certain actions.

Unity can be easily described by the above-presented highly-usable desktop, progressively incorporating new and new design-wise details.

Ubuntu ships by default Unity, allowing users to easily and accurately manage, group, access and observe applications via the Unity launcher.

Launching an application via the Dash, adds the previously-launched app to the launcher, from where the user can further interact with it.

Weeks ago, Ubuntu 13.04 received the exciting Unity-style shutdown dialogs, enriching the Raring desktop with chameleonic Unity-like textures, big-sized monochrome icons, multiple ways of closing the dialogs (clicking on a desktop space, hitting the Escape key, etc).

Yet, since their initial implementation, the Unity-style shutdown dialogs have been constantly polished and worked on details, in order to provide a no-compromise overall experience.

Ubuntu 13.04 has received, across the latest weeks, interesting visual improvements and additions, bundle of changes refining and beautifying the desktop's overall look & feel.

The latest updates landed in Raring Ringtail bring new changes, implementing minor yet relevant functionalities.

Ubuntu 13.04 is targeted for solid exciting changes, overall new functionalities that are to further enrich and strengthen Ubuntu.

As part of the mentioned changes, Unity 7 is to land in Raring Ringtail in the near future, version that is to receive the 100 Scopes project, as well as numerous enhancements, optimizations and improvements.

Prior to its official release in Ubuntu 13.04, Unity 7 is currently stressed against tests, in order to isolate, identify and fix Unity 7-related bugs.