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Plans for the next iteration of the network status menu in Unity include the use of switch widgets. As has been brought up on the unity-design list, their placement on the right is likely to make...

https://thorwil.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/switches-in-unity-menus/

Summary: If you have performance problems using the JACK Audio-Connection-Kit and the fglrx ATI grpahics card driver, switching to radeon may solve them. Unity 3D and radeon can work, but leftove...

https://thorwil.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/fun-with-graphics-card-drivers-in-ubuntu-12-04/

Scaled Screenshot of Ubuntu 11.10 Unity’s Dash on a neutral background: Full size The 8 items in the home screen of Ubuntu Unity’s Dash have been found to be confusing in user testing and wil...

https://thorwil.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/dash/

I started out rather skeptical of Unity, since it clashes with my habits. But it wouldn’t be the first time I modified them … I’ve come to enjoy launching and switching between applications...

https://thorwil.wordpress.com/2011/10/29/ubuntu-unity-experience/

Paul and Marcus from the Canonical Design Team saw a problem with the gap-less regular/light combo I used for the text in the previous iteration. So I offered a tweaked version of the 2nd variati...

https://thorwil.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/ubuntu-friendly-logo-7/

Ara Pulido, being the leader of Ubuntu Friendly, preferred the first logo and right sticker design from the last set and so do I. As a hopefully last touch, I tweaked the placement of the text on...

https://thorwil.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/ubuntu-friendly-logo-6/

Paul Sladen suggested that I use a different variant for friendly, an option I didn’t think of because my unexpectedly not up-to-date font (still on 10.10) file didn’t contain a light variant...

https://thorwil.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/ubuntu-friendly-logo-5/

After some reflection, I think the seal approach of the previous set (4 A, B, C) is just clumsy, in an official person cuts ribbon with large golden scissors way. 😉 The gears are overly techni...

https://thorwil.wordpress.com/2011/06/12/ubuntu-friendly-logo-4/

Part of a project is questioning the whole thing. Meno argued that we should just use the known Circle of Friends logo. In my own words: to further establish the CoF, to not weaken the visual ide...

https://thorwil.wordpress.com/2011/06/04/ubuntu-friendly-logo-3/

A client would get to see only selected few of these, if I present sketches at all. For exposing my process, I left everything in, including train wrecks 🙂 Every single sketch is both a first ...

https://thorwil.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/ubuntu-friendly-logo-2/