elementaryos.org down for update?

If you are trying to access elementaryos.org, you will be thrown with this

Is it an update or technical problem?

Let's wait and see

Noise: Minor Update

The new updated Noise will now show the similar songs in your music library to the song that you are playing 

Notice that there is number of song indicator beside it

Stay tuned

Beta 1: Installation Process

Bloggin' right from the live installation of elementary os Beta 1

This is how it looks like from the live environment in Beta 1

First look of the installer

An option for you to choose whether or not to install updates and third party software

You can install it along side with another os, delete/erase the disk and install elementary os or choose specific partition (that's what I chose) Notice the branding?

Choose your region or country

Setup your user account and

it's installing ! A small window will pop out showing the installation progress

After the installation, you may install Ubuntu Restricted Extras as elementary does not include this in the ISO

Usability: So far there is no issue however at the time of writing, Noise and Maya does not function properly

-Stay tuned-

Beta 1: Bye bye bugs !

2 final bugs of Noise have been moved to Beta 2, which means 0 bug left for Beta 1

You do know what this means ?

-Stay tuned-

Granite is Fixed !

And yes, as for now it is fixed

For those of you who failed to fix it by following the previous posted method, here's how

Boot into your elementary, press CTRL + ALT + F2

Login into your account

Type the following

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo reboot

It should boot up into Pantheon Greeter

Stay tuned !

Empathy New Icon

After the Granite-hell-of-a-mess incident, i've reinstalled the whole daily build and here I am

This is the new icon used for Empathy

Stay tuned !

IMPORTANT: Granite Mischief

For those of you who are using the elementary daily ppa or elementary os daily build, you may not be able to login into your desktop as Pantheon Greeter does not show up and application may not be able to find libgranite

Granite's evil has come again !

To fix this, press CTRL + ALT + F2 to enter into terminal

Login with your username and password

And then type the following:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:midori/midori-dev

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install 'libgranite0=0.2-0~r433+pkg31~precise1'

The newer version of Granite in the daily ppa will fix this problem

Ps: At the time of writing, the latest fixed Granite is still being built in the daily ppa

Happy testing

Switchboard: The new About plug

This new About plug is available after you have update your daily build

Though it may still be early to judge, the overall UI is a bit too plain

What do you think? 

Beatbox: Plugins has landed!

And yes, the long awaited Beatbox has finally include Plugins!

For the moment, only lyrics and Last.FM plugin is available, though it may be more than that in the future

As you may notice, the shuffle and repeat buttons has been reverted back to the bottom bar which makes it look consistent and uncluttered again

Stay tuned

Switchboard: Minor Update

Added a new row "Network and Wireless" 

Stay tuned for more

New Privacy Icon

A new Privacy icon has been added into the elementary icon family. 

Overall from looking into Switchboard, it feels much more one-of-a-whole where it blends with other icon that the suit has to offer

Stay tuned

elementary icon: Peripheral icon update

Here is an updated icon of mouse and touchpad which can be found after updating to the latest revision

This is how it looks like in Switchboard

Stay tuned

Gala : Minor Update

A minor update from the recent branch merging in Gala, now Gala windows overview will have a drop shadow

Though, shadows will only be displayed on applications which is not maximized

Stay tune

elementary icons - New icons for mail

In the latest build of elementary icons from elementary daily ppa, most of the changes are made with the inclusion of some new icons which is for the mail applications

Below are a few new icons which is added

From left to right: edit-flag, mail-archive, mail-move

These icon can be found in /actions/24 folder

Stay tune

Gala - Zoom is here

Gala with the revision of 206 is being pushed to elementary daily ppa which has the zoom feature.

In order to test this, update to the latest version and use the following keybindings for :

Zoom in : Super & +

Zoom out: Super & -

Happy trying

Blog update

Sorry for the few hiccups, DISQUS is now back but what I did not notice is the lightbox feature from Blogger is not working

Hence, we got a little replacement

Now we have close button on the left !

Remind you of something?

Stay tune for more elementary os news !

Switchboard - Back to normal

And yes, Switchboard icon size has been reverted back to 32px as a request from DanRabbit

Imo, it looks good on both sizes

View the bug report here

Stay tune

Granite - Updates

Granite framework has been updated to enhance a few in the overall look and UI

Previously, any applications which uses Granite framework will feature a much more smaller font 

After the update, you will notice that the header is bold and the font is being change to Open Sans

As for developers, a new Granite widget has landed where you can have thin sidebar handles with large invisible grip area

Stay tune

Midori - Forward button is back

Previously, Midori's UI features only back button and forward button will only appear when it is needed

Right now, after you update, the forward button will be back in action

Other than that, performance wise, it is quite fast as compared to the last few builds. If you wanted to try midori-granite, follow the instructions below

1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:midori/midori-dev

2. sudo apt-get update 

3. sudo apt-get install midori-granite

*Note : Doing this will remove your previously installed midori or midori-gtk3

Stay tune

Gala - Window Overview

It is now official that it will be called as Window Overview than Expose

Right now there is two expose algorithm to switch to but from the video, the old one looks abit off the line probably because of bug

It is not sure if the option is available in Switchboard or otherwise it will be available in dconf instead

Video is by Tom Beckmann

Stay tune