Ubuntu 13.04

I am using gnome cupertino with Faenza icons. Not a huge fan of the default orange theme always found it tacky. I do love the silver and blue of osx so this theme works great for me.

http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Gnome Cupertino?content=147061


Here my full desktop including nautilus. All of this was configured using unity tweak tool.

http://imgur.com/X8LGG9V

 

Thanks for the info!
Yeah the looks of the default theme of ubuntu is pure ugly
and this cupertino therme looks very nice.

 

Gave it a quick spin from a live usb and indeed it seems quite responsive

 

Installed Thunar and used the instructions in this page: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ThunarCustomActions

I really like this version.

 

I made a release upgrade from Kubuntu 12.10 to 13.04 without any problems. The new version seems to be a bit snappier, indeed.

 

Went from 12.04 to 13.04 (clean install) and, honestly, I am not seeing the "snappier" on my system. Unity does have a more polished look in 13.04, but I ended up re-installing Precise.

 

I got time to install it last night, decided to do a clean install due to amount of fiddling I had done with 12.10.
Really nothing exciting to mention, a few of the apps seem more refined (online accounts is more granular), Unity seems more snappy.
I should check the change log to see if I have missed any changes.

Cheers Nick.

 

Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail - Remarkably unremarkable

The hunting season begins with areview of Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail 64-bit edition, covering live session, installation in a quadruple-boot setup on a laptop with SSD and Intel graphics, and post-install testing and usage, including look & feel, new file manager, Samba sharing, privacy options and offensive Dash search results, small changes in the installer flow, like partition labels, user setup and keyboard configuration, desktop customization, applications choice, multimedia playback - Flash and MP3, printing, stability, suspend & resume, good improvements in CPU and memory resource usage, and many annoyances like download glitches, screenshot utility bugs, input methods complexity, poor relevance of online searches, slow visual rendering of objects, and more.

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/ubuntu-ringtail.html


Cheers,
Mrk

 

Not perfect - but solid. Just the direction in which Canonical seeks to take Ubuntu - lower resource consumption, better system integration and taking advantage of all that Unity can offer non-geeks. Unlike Microsoft's Windows 8, it doesn't insult the intelligence with an OCD seizing desktop. Let's hope more bugs are fixed in time for the fall.

Ubuntu perfection must in the meantime wait. Cheers.

 

Upgraded an Xubuntu 12.10 machine with no problems. Boot time is noticeably faster and some heavy-ish programs (Libreoffice, Vbox, Banshee) seem to start quicker...or is that just in my head?

On my Gnome 3 machine though, the difference is much bigger. Everything is a lot more responsive, Gnome 3.6.3 is M U C H more stable than 3.6.2 and hovers around 270MB of mem after booting, about 30MB less than previously.

I've found 13.04 overall is infinitely more solid than 12.10 so Apport no longer bothers me two or three times a day for random things crashing on simple, modern hardware.

The only problems so far was with the installer complaining I couldn't partition outside of the drive space when I tried to set a mount point for partitions already created. I had to delete the old partitions, then recreate them in Ubiquity. This Nautilus/Files thing is also giving me a mysterious error when trying to make FTP connections.

Otherwise happy to finally get away from Quantal and I can't wait to see what Mint Olivia will bring with Cinnamon 1.8.

 

So far I've tried Ubuntu and Xubuntu 13.04. Not bad. I like both of them.

BTW, you'll need to install libudev0_175-0ubuntu13_amd64.deb or libudev0_175-0ubuntu13_i386.deb, depending on your system, if you wish to install the latest google-chrome stable in 13.04. Without it chrome will refuse to install. Here are some download links if you need them...

i386:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/i386/libudev0/download

amd64:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/amd64/libudev0/download

Later...

 

I did the same. Excellent, Kde Homerun Launcher is the best I have come across.