by Jono Bacon | Jan 24, 2012 | Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu, QA, Ubuntu
Today we announced the HUD that is landing in Unity. This is an awesome new feature. See [Mark’s blog post](https://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/939), the [coverage on PC Pro](https://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/372385/ubuntu-rips-up-drop-down-menus), and the...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 24, 2012 | Community, Desktop, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
I am a pretty terrible programmer. Anyone who has read my code can see that. Unfortunately, I tend to have lots of ideas about how we can use technology in different ways, hence why I write some code. Examples of this have included Lernid, Acire, RaccoonShow, and...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 23, 2012 | Canonical, Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
A little while back [I mentioned that Nicholas Skaggs would be joining the Community Team](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/2011/12/12/nicholas-skaggs-joining-the-canonical-community-team/) at Canonical. Nick is now on board but is not an Ubuntu Member yet, so his...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 23, 2012 | Community, Desktop, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
A little while back I [blogged about](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/2011/10/25/ubuntu-accomplishments-system-spec/) an accomplishments system that [Stuart Langridge](https://www.kryogeniz.org) and I designed when he came to visit a while back. The idea was...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 21, 2012 | Canonical, Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
A week ago I flew to Budapest for an Ubuntu Engineering Team Rally. This is where we get the Ubuntu Engineers at Canonical and some other groups together for a week to work together, plan future work, have meetings and make progress on our existing commitments. It is...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 10, 2012 | Community, Ubuntu
I was delighted to [read this morning](https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2012-January/000922.html) that the Ubuntu Technical Board has approved Xubuntu and Kubuntu to be LTS versions, as well as Edubuntu based on some further discussion. You can...
