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John writes about the latest updates in the GTK Impression theme. In particular, he takes a look at breadcrumbs and how they can be enhanced to not only provide an improved visual style, but also improved functionality and usability.
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Quickly makes application development easier and faster with every Ubuntu release. Rick walks us through some enhancements made in Quickly widgets during the Maverick release cycle, including an enhanced dictionary grid, enhanced couchgrid enhanced gridfilters as well as new widgets.
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Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Lucid
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
  4. LoCo News
    1. Christophe Sauthier: Free Banner for Approved LoCo Teams
  5. Launchpad News
  6. Ubuntu Forums News
  7. The Planet
    1. John Baer: GTK Impression – Nautilus Breadcrumbs
    2. Stéphane Graber: Edubuntu gets a new Installer
    3. Mark Shuttleworth: Daily Dose of Scribus Trunk
    4. Canonical Design Team: Which Way To Slant The Hebrew
    5. Rick Spencer: New in Quickly for Maverick
    6. Mackenzie Morgan: Ohio Linuxfest 2010
    7. Lucas Nussbaum: Ruby packaging in Debian and Ubuntu: Mythbusting and FAQ
    8. Martin Albisetti: Making usability part of the development process
    9. Scott Moser: running Ubuntu on an Amazon "micro" instance
  8. In The Press
  9. In The Blogosphere
  10. In Other News
    1. TurnKey unveils a new kind of smart backup/restore system, powered by Amazon S3
  11. Featured Podcasts
  12. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  13. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  14. Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 9.04, 9.10, 10.04, and 10.10
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 6.06 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 9.04 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 9.10 Updates
    6. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
    7. Ubuntu 10.10 Updates
  15. UWN Translations
  16. Subscribe
  17. Archives and RSS Feed
  18. Additional Ubuntu News
  19. Conclusion
  20. Credits
  21. Glossary of Terms
  22. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  23. Feedback

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue ## for the week September 5th - September 11th, 2010. In this issue we cover.

In This Issue

General Community News

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (79302) +428 over last week
  • Critical (30) -1 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (38926) +389 over last week

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

Translation Stats Lucid

  1. English (United Kingdom) (4) +/-0 over last week
  2. Spanish (8282) -115 over last week
  3. Brazilian Portuguese (32461) -617 over last week
  4. French (36852) +187 over last week
  5. German (53846) -216 over last week

Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/

Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week

Ubuntu Brainstorm is a community site geared toward letting you add your ideas for Ubuntu. You can submit your own idea, or vote for or against another idea. http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/

LoCo News

Christophe Sauthier: Free Banner for Approved LoCo Teams

http://www.reponses.net/blog/2010/09/10/579-free-banners-for-approved-loco-teams

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

The Planet

John Baer: GTK Impression – Nautilus Breadcrumbs

John writes about the latest updates in the GTK Impression theme. In particular, he takes a look at breadcrumbs and how they can be enhanced to not only provide an improved visual style, but also improved functionality and usability.

http://www.projblog.com/?p=1471

Stéphane Graber: Edubuntu gets a new Installer

Edubuntu 10.04 introduced a new GUI LTSP and Netbook interface installation. It was an improvement upon previous implementations, but not all that intuitive. Stéphane covers new improvements coming up in Edubuntu 10.10 that makes LTSP and the new Ubuntu Unity interface easier to install than ever.

http://www.stgraber.org/2010/09/10/edubuntu-gets-new-installer

Mark Shuttleworth: Daily Dose of Scribus Trunk

Canonical now uses the desktop publishing tool Scribus for many marketing materials. The Scribus project has made big strides recently, but unfortunately the Scribus package in Ubuntu is a bit dated. Mark discovered that Philip Muskovac is working on having daily PPA builds available, and includes details on where to get it.

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/507

Canonical Design Team: Which Way To Slant The Hebrew

Bruno Maag from the Canonical design team asks whether the italic text in Hebrew should slant in the direction of reading (right-to-left) or in the western left-to-right direction.

http://design.canonical.com/2010/09/which-way-to-slant-the-hebrew/

Rick Spencer: New in Quickly for Maverick

Quickly makes application development easier and faster with every Ubuntu release. Rick walks us through some enhancements made in Quickly widgets during the Maverick release cycle, including an enhanced dictionary grid, enhanced couchgrid enhanced gridfilters as well as new widgets.

http://theravingrick.blogspot.com/2010/09/anything-new-in-quickly-widgets-for.html

Mackenzie Morgan: Ohio Linuxfest 2010

Mackenzie blogs about her experience at Ohio Linuxfest 2010, which is one of the largest regular Linux related gatherings in the region. She presented on Ubuntu development processes and Linux security myths.

http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com/2010/09/ohio-linuxfest-2010.html

Lucas Nussbaum: Ruby packaging in Debian and Ubuntu: Mythbusting and FAQ

Lucas covers the state of the Ruby packages in Debian and Ubuntu and explains how the packages are implemented and how they should be used by dispelling common myths about Ruby in Ubuntu he commonly comes across.

http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog

Martin Albisetti: Making usability part of the development process

Martin writes about his experience of working on the Launchpad team building a new user interface. He wrote a paper that covers the 18 months he's been working on the project that included enhancing the interface to use more dynamic content.

http://beuno.com.ar/archives/221

Scott Moser: running Ubuntu on an Amazon "micro" instance

Amazon announced a new micro instance package that costs just 2c per hour. That means that you can try out Ubuntu on EC2 for 2 measly cents. Official images for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS are available and for the more adventurous there are also 10.10 daily builds available.

http://ubuntu-smoser.blogspot.com/2010/09/running-ubuntu-on-amazon-micro-instance.html

In The Press

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

TurnKey unveils a new kind of smart backup/restore system, powered by Amazon S3

This week TurnKey Linux, an Ubuntu based project, officially unveiled TKLBAM (TurnKey Backup and Migration), a smart, fully automated backup and restore facility powered by the Amazon S3 storage cloud.

Fully automating the backup and restore process makes it practical for the first time to easily test backups "in the cloud", and migrate full systems (e.g., servers) anywhere in minutes.

"We designed TKLBAM to be our ideal open source backup system. Imagine a fully automated backup and restore system with no pain. That you wouldn't need to configure. That just magically knows what to backup and, just as importantly, what NOT to backup, to create super efficient, encrypted backups of changes to files, databases, package management state, even users and groups."

Read the announcement and watch the screencast:

http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/announcing-tklbam

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 9.04, 9.10, 10.04, and 10.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

Ubuntu 9.04 Updates

Ubuntu 9.10 Updates

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

Ubuntu 10.10 Updates

UWN Translations

  • Note to translators and our readers please follow the link below for the information you need.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Translations

Subscribe

Get your copy of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter delivered each week to you via email at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-news

Archives and RSS Feed

You can always find older Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter issues at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter

You can subscribe to the Ubuntu Weekly News via RSS at: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/uwn/feed

Additional Ubuntu News

As always you can find more news and announcements at:

and

Conclusion

Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

See you next week!

Credits

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Amber Graner
  • Your Name Here
  • Liraz Siri
  • Jonathan Carter
  • And many others

Glossary of Terms

Other acronyms can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/glossary

Ubuntu - Get Involved

The Ubuntu community consists of individuals and teams, working on different aspects of the distribution, giving advice and technical support, and helping to promote Ubuntu to a wider audience. No contribution is too small, and anyone can help. It's your chance to get in on all the community fun associated with developing and promoting Ubuntu. http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate

Feedback

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