Mirco "MacSlow" Müller, also known as "the king of bling", just released a very short blogpost where he reveals that something slick and stylish coming you way within the next few hours. The post is titled Surprise, surprise.
Mirco Müller is known for his work on the GDM login experience which we hope will land in Jaunty +1, but he will also be involved in the Plymouth development for Ubuntu.
As with all the amazing work of Mirco Müller, I'm really looking forward to this surprise. I will of course follow up on the story as more details are revealed. My guess is that he is talking about the new notification system. If you've got any idea what he is talking about, post your guesses below.
Showing posts with label bling and eye candy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bling and eye candy. Show all posts
Feb 17, 2009
Dec 10, 2008
No facebrowser for Jaunty
A Gobby document from the Desktop-GDM-upgrade session at UDS (witch is on it's third day today), showes that the facebrowser won't make it into Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.04), but it's planned for Jaunty +1. You will be able to change the graphics and layouts of the facebrowser in the theme, but the behaviors will be hard coded.
Read more about the facebrowser here:
- GDM login experience
- Ubuntu's OpenGL face browser will bring bling to GDM"
Nov 8, 2008
User experience, bling and eye candy
Canonical have for months been hiring designers and user experience staff. It has taken much longer than they hoped, but in January/February hopefully a new team will be in place. Whether their initial work will make a dramatic visual impact on Jaunty, no one knows yet. At the Ubuntu Open Week Thusday 6. November 2008 Mark Shuttleworth made this statement in a Q+A session:
...I know that other work, on the user experience front, will land, but i'll keep some surprises in store till later.
You can grab the whole Q+A session on the Ubuntu Open Week wiki.
The new team, the Canonical Desktop Experience Team, is coming together, but recently Mirco Müller (aka the king of bling) registered a new very interesting team called Bling Brigade.
Both teams looks very promising (and very much alike) in the case of bringing a greater user experience, bling and eye candy to the linux desktop.
Let hope these new teams will succeed. If your unfamilliar with Mirco Müllers work, you can be enlightened be the video clip below or check his website http://macslow.thepimp.net/
UPDATE: The video seems to be down at the moment so here's the direct link: http://macslow.thepimp.net/projects/lowfat/preview-1.avi
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