Gwibber makes it to Ubuntu 10.04

I have a twitter account and an identi.ca account… but I have not used Gwibber or any other social media program. I have to say that his client looks very cool. The ability of it to work with Facebook, Twitter and Identi.ca make it a solid choice. This is another application that should appeal to new Linux users. Bravo, again, to Canonical and the Ubuntu community.

Ubuntu 10.04 – Boot Time

I am testing the beta release of Ubuntu 10.04 on 1.6Ghz process and 1.5 GB or ram. The first test was from power on to login and the second test was from ‘bios check complete’ to login. I did ten tests of each and the average times are below:

• power to login: 38 seconds
• bios complete to login: 29 seconds

Very nice — great job on this goes to the Ubuntu Canonical Team.

I am still exploring the beta, but I am impressed with it so far.

Ubuntu 10.04 – Window Controls

The fact that Ubuntu 10.04 (long term support) is converting the placement of the windows controls to the left side. I caught the issue when the theme was first posted on the forums. I have now read two community posts on it; they even say this change came from on-high because people were not talking about it.

Perhaps I will offend some Canonical folks with this then.

This change, in my opinion, is pointless. It makes nothing more user friendly. It makes nothing easier. In short the only reason I can see for this is Hubris. At the very least Ubuntu should allow this to be optional. These types of lock-in changes are the hallmark of Apple, not an open source community. Perhaps I am wrong… but currently I do not see any evidence that there is a compelling reason for this change.

note and revision:

You can change this by:

alt+F2

gconf-editor

Then navigate to ‘apps / metacity / general’ look for the button layout and change it to read:

“menu:minimize,maximize,close”

So, we can change this. This is not lock-in. I would still like, for the common user, a simple option to change the placement of the window controls.