Canonical

Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.

1550 posts by Canonical

Which way to slant the Hebrew

by Canonical on 10 September 2010

Here is a design conundrum: which way to lean the Hebrew Italic design. Logic, and probably common sense, would dictate that it should slant in the reading...

Third update to the Ubuntu Light Themes

by Canonical on 10 September 2010

Still Andrea Cimitan, still good news for you 🙂 This is a small blog post to list few of the changes we did to light-themes: Menuitem speedup, hurray!!! 😀...

Charactersets

by Canonical on 9 September 2010

In this latest post discussing development of the Ubuntu family of fonts, Bruno discusses scope, charactersets and what’s coming as part of the Ubuntu...

Meerkats like the sun?!

by Canonical on 9 September 2010

Today I got another e-mail from a statue. There’s a perfectly normal sentence … This time from a beach where Rick says he’s having an amazing time relaxing...

Exciting things in the post!

by Canonical on 8 September 2010

A couple of months back Marcus and I got a call from a magazine in Japan who wanted to produce stickers for Ubuntu. We’d _just_ signed off the new logo and...

We are hiring: Design Engineer

by Canonical on 6 September 2010

We are looking for a Design Engineer with superb technical and communication skills to join the Design Team. Is that you?

This week in design – 3 September 2010

by Canonical on 3 September 2010

This week was a short one in the UK but it seems as though we set out to fill it with as much as we possibly could! For a start we hit beta this week. If...

In Brazil?!

by Canonical on 3 September 2010

Came in this morning to a mail from Rick, my Meerkat who went for a walk a little while ago. Apparently he was giving a keynote at Linuxcon!! More as I get it

Just an average day in 2014

by Canonical on 3 September 2010

While I’m not convinced that Sweden will actually win the world cup there’s lots to like about this “five minutes into the future” look at how we might share...

Happy Beta day everyone!

by Canonical on 2 September 2010

Happy Beta Release day one and all. If you’ve not yet upgraded surely now’s the time

Ubuntu default wallpaper

by Canonical on 1 September 2010

So, the default wallpaper… My initial vision: Seeing so many screenshots of the Ubuntu desktop during the second to last release all sporting identical...