by Jono Bacon | Aug 9, 2009 | Community, Ubuntu
Recently I had an interesting decision to consider. In an email to the Community Council, Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of the Ubuntu project nominated me for a seat on the Community Council, one of our two top-level governance boards, the other being the Ubuntu...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 29, 2009 | Community, Ubuntu
Recently I have been talking to Prentice Hall, the rather spanky-awesome publishers of [The Official Ubuntu Book](https://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0137021208) by Mako, Matthew Helmke and Corey Burger, and the brand new [Official Ubuntu Server...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 29, 2009 | Community, Ubuntu
Tonight I spent some time fiddling with the rather awesome VirtualBox to get a Karmic instance up and a Kubuntu machine up and running. I managed to get a rather nice set up going and I just wanted to quickly share my experience. This is a little rough and ready and I...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 21, 2009 | Community, Ubuntu
I just want to offer my congratulations to the [Launchpad](https://www.launchpad.net/) team for their excellent efforts in Open Sourcing the whole project. I would also encourage everyone to pass on their thanks to Mark Shuttleworth for this incredible gift to the...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 12, 2009 | Desktop, Ubuntu
Quick update on my icon hacking. I have now figured out a way to get most of my notification icons to have broadly the right color. It used to look like this: Now it looks like this: To do this I first copied my *Human* icon, edited `theme.index` to change the name of...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 11, 2009 | Desktop, Ubuntu
For some time now there has been a general move over to darker themes in GNOME-land. I have tried a bunch of themes here and there but I have always moved back to the default Ubuntu theme: I always found the dark theme less usable and harder to look at in my day to...
