Ubuntu Tweak 0.4.9.2 released (And early look of 0.5)!

First congrats to the release of Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala!

It’s the most ever perfect desktop distribution! Cool and fast boot, beautiful login window and new desktop theme, lots of new applications: Ubuntu Software Center, Ubuntu One… You’ve upgraded, right?

To celebrate the release of Ubuntu 9.10, I also to give a new updated version of Ubuntu Tweak 0.4.9.2 with a lot of refresh applications and sources for Ubuntu 9.10 only.

There’s no doubt that you should upgrade to Ubuntu Tweak 0.4.9.2 too!

What’s new

* New PPA
– Gartoon Redux icon theme
– GMPC
– Mingming’s PPA
– Rico Tzschichholz’s PPA
* Update Third-Party Sources
– osd-lyrics
– Dropbox
– Amark
– Blueman
– Christine
– Smplayer
– PlayOnLinux
– XMBC
– Vlc
– Clutter
– Gloobus
– Bisigi
* Remove the Sources
– Ubuntu-CN
– Transmission daily
* Bug fixed
– Personal>Folder menu error on opening (LP: #461666)

Two screenshots
Install more themes through Ubuntu Tweak

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More third-party sources: Gartoon Redux, Gloobus and GMPC.

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Download the package and install  through here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-tweak/0.4.x/0.4.9.2, or update through the sources.

What about the status of Ubuntu Tweak 0.5 and the future website?

By this post, I want to talk about something about the development of  Ubuntu Tweak 0.5 and the website, also some of my thoughts.

As you know, for a long time, the development of Ubuntu Tweak focus on the application install, third-party sources and package clean since the year of 2009. There isn’t other major features for Ubuntu Tweak.

There’s several reasons. One important reason is: I have to make features work for Ubuntu since 8.04, because Ubuntu Tweak supports Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10.

As a utility to tweak system, make it support so many different versions of Ubuntu spent a lot of time to debug, test and so on: almost the time, I had only one people to do the things.

So as the Ubuntu going on, the development of Ubuntu Tweak became slow too.

Another reason is the personal reason, I have the daily work so that I can only programming in the night or weekends.

I want to make a totally new Ubuntu Tweak with a lot of ideas, so I finally decided, the future of Ubuntu Tweak will only support the current version, so Ubuntu Tweak 0.5 will only work on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala.

From now on, I don’t have to test with Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10 and 9.04, I just focus on how to make it work with Ubuntu 9.10, and use the newest API of programming to make Ubuntu Tweak more powerful.

Now, in my master development branch,  lots of work has been done, the first is moving from policykit to policykit-1. Policykit-1 is the component of Ubuntu 9.10, it makes the permission control more easily. And through its Python interface, Ubuntu Tweak becomes pure Python application again, there will only be one package, no matter you’re using i386, amd64, or even LPIA.

The second, by the new humanity icon theme, Ubuntu Tweak refreshed its icons of the UI, now it is more “humanity”.

What about the new interface of Ubuntu Tweak?

New navigator and new title of the sub module

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All native icons

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Another theme of native icon

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Of course, it is only a early look of Ubuntu Tweak 0.5, more changes and new things will be happened in the future.

I want the new Ubuntu Tweak will have a easy and quick navigator to the features, refreshed current features and some  cool new features.

The new website is under the development too, and it will be online after the release of Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.

I hope a testing version will come as soon as possible, and I have to say sorry for the people who are still using the old distribution.

OK, enjoy with the Ubuntu 9.10 and Ubuntu Tweak 0.4.9.2! I will come back soon.

28 thoughts on “Ubuntu Tweak 0.4.9.2 released (And early look of 0.5)!

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  2. I always use Ubuntu Tweak every time I install Ubuntu on my PC and I am very happy for all your effort to make this great product better :D What do you think if we the community to make something like the papercuts for Ubuntu Karmic but for Ubuntu Tweak??? It’ll be awesome to see what great ideas could occur from that :D

  3. Where can i test this? I tried the UbuntuTweak git but it won’t install (the instructions don’t seem to work as there is nothing to ./configure. )

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  7. First off thank you TualatriX for all the work you do for us out in Ubuntu land! Your app has made my transfer from windows so much more easier.

    I found this Miro podcast(Catergory5.tv episode 75 @ 16:19) reviewing your app, just thought you would like to know other are discovering it too!
    http://www.miroguide.com/items/1897191

    Thanks again

    coskibum

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  9. Hi TualatriX,

    I’m fairly new to the linux world and one thing I would appreciate a lot would be something like a statusbar with the actual commands or a logview where one could see the commands that each and every function uses.

    I’m especially interested in the commands you use for the package and kernel cleaning.

    Just an idea, and maybe you’ll like it and be able to implement it.

    Thx for a great tool!

    namaste

  10. first I should say Karmic Koala is not the most perfect distro ever,as I have spent the last week trying to get my sound to work(xfi-xtreme music) trying everything i could think of including fresh install and yet the sound is muddled in static and distortions.

    I would highly recommend waiting to update to ubuntu 910. infact i have just fresh installed jaunty as it works better then karmic koala for me(and many many others)

  11. I love ubuntutweak but I used It to install VBox 3.0 and it did something that now my usb external HD doesn’t mount up by default when i log in to my machine.

    how can I fix this? please help.

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  13. hi…is it possible to use Ubuntu Tweak with Linux Mint 8 Helena? It has installed fine on my PC, but add/remove programs is not functional and that is a real blow…could you please update it like you did for Linux Mint 7 Gloria?
    Thanks

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  15. hello linux people
    i am a linux newbie so please go easy.
    i dont know what version of tweek installed. i followed these instructions:
    http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-tweak-ubuntu.html

    i have ubuntu 9.10 which was incredibly easy to install!! i believe its the koala.

    iam getting a error when i attempt to run tweek:

    Sorry!
    Ububtu Tweek can only run on Ubuntu 7.04 or 7.10

    Thanks in advance

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