Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.4 released! Hello, Ubuntu Lucid!
April 30th, 2010 | by TualatriX |It has been a long time since the last version of Ubuntu Tweak(0.5.3), however, its development has never been stopped.
Although the planned Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 is impossible to be released with Ubuntu 10.04 on the same day, Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.4 still provides you some exciting updates and let you enjoy your unforgettable journey of experiencing the brand new awesome Ubuntu 10.04.
Here it comes.
I think most of you have upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 already, haven’t you?
For me, I’ve already upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 since last week by using the official Update Manager. Everything was OK. But something is annoying: Update Manager disabled all the third-party sources. I have to enable them one by one.
Ubuntu Tweak has an easy-to-use Source Center for you to play with Third-party Sources. Why not integrate a smart feature into Ubuntu Tweak to let people re-enable the lucid-workable third-party sources?
So that’s what Ubuntu Tweak brings you.
Overview Changes
Let’s see the overview changes:
- Add support for Linux Mint 9: Linux Mint is Ubuntu based, Ubuntu Tweak should support it.
- Singleton support for Ubuntu Tweak, you will never launch two Ubuntu Tweak instances.
- The Ubuntu Tweak Stable source will be enabled by default, so that you won’t miss the major release version.
- New Login Settings to let you control the appearance and behavior of your login screen
- New feature to upgrade the usable sources.
And some bugs fixes:
- LP: #546331 Empty places in the list while deleting sources file
- LP: #540215 Link failed with Permission denied
- LP: #568454 The feature on “change the main menu icon” does not work in mylucid
- LP: #564942 Default Folder Locations does not expose input method
Now start with some screenshots
Third-party Sources Upgrade
After a successful distribution upgrade, all third-party sources will be disabled by default. If you want to use them, you have to enable them again one by one, it will take you a lot of time.
Here’s what the disabled sources look like:
OK, from now on, with Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.4, it will be very simple to do the Source Upgrade task.
When you enter the “Source Center”, you will be notified like this:
Just press “Yes”, all the sources which marked as “disabled on upgrade to lucid” will be enabled again(only if the source supports Lucid).
After upgrade, it will look like this.
It’s so simple, right?
Login Settings
The Login Settings is a new feature of Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.4. Here you can control the appearance and behavior of the Login Screen(GDM).
I will show you how to use Login Settings to custom your login screen.
Before customization, the logo and background will look like this:
Now I’m changing the login screen logo to “Ubuntu Tweak”, and replacing the original background with a blue-green-black one.
After the customization, logout and check out your new login screen, it’s been changed and just suits your taste.
From now on, you can customize you own logo to login screen easily with Ubuntu Tweak. Of course, it is easy to “Revert” too.
Other small improvements
You know the PPA sources are slow in some countries. In some cases, you may want to upgrade your system with PPA sources temporarily disabled. So in the Ubuntu Tweak’s Update Manager, PPA sources can be disabled temporarily by simply checking the new option.
Some users reported the Default Folder Locations is inconvenient to use. Because some operation had to be done through the context menu.
I re-designed it and add buttons for it.
Just “Change” and “Restore”, no more “Refresh” now.
Downloads
Due to the problem of Launchpad, the PPA source for Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.4 is not yet available.
If you can’t wait to try it out, just download the package below and install it. Here’s the link(It works both on Ubuntu 9.10 and Ubuntu 10.04):
http://launchpad.net/ubuntu-tweak/0.5.x/0.5.4/+download/ubuntu-tweak_0.5.4-1_all.deb
Enjoy your incredible Ubuntu Lucid journey!
Tags: ubuntu-tweak
28 Responses to “Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.4 released! Hello, Ubuntu Lucid!”
By Rijal on Apr 30, 2010 | Reply
thanks for this relese bro!
By Mel on Apr 30, 2010 | Reply
Dude, you’re a genius!!!
Can’t live without UT!!!
By banana on Apr 30, 2010 | Reply
“PPA sources can be disabled temporarily”
great!
By ThanhVu Nguyen on Apr 30, 2010 | Reply
Crashes immediately when opens.
I am on 10.4 with prev version of ubuntu-tweak 0.5.3 installed. So I first uninstall it then d/l the deb file, dpkg -i deb_file .. works fine.
run ubuntu-tweak and receive a Oops… a fatal error occur
Similar bug reported here => https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-tweak/+bug/572587
By Robomaster on Apr 30, 2010 | Reply
Rather silly question – what’s the theme you’re using on the Ubuntu Tweak homepage screenshot? (http://ubuntu-tweak.com/) It looks really cool and I’d like to get it!
By Admc on May 1, 2010 | Reply
Of course there’s no bulid for karmic in repository. Why you aren’t buliding packages for older versions of Ubuntu? I’m not upgrading to lucid jet because I’m waiting for Polish Ubuntu remix.
By dem on May 1, 2010 | Reply
I haven’t new feature LOGIN SETTING on my ubuntu tweak 0.5.4? Does anybody know? Of course I have new ubuntu 10.04 on board…
By Maurice on May 1, 2010 | Reply
is version 0.54 of ubuntu tweak compatible with ubuntu 9.10? (or only 10.04)
By Xain on May 1, 2010 | Reply
Hello,
with Ubuntu 10.04 the Nautilus extensions (open terminal in folder and open folder as superuser)doesn’t work even if I installed them.
By stevepoppers on May 2, 2010 | Reply
The Login Sound in incredibly difficult to disable. I had to hunt down every checkbox on the system. Disabling it in Ubuntu Tweak did nothing, nor did gconf-editor. I finally succeeded by unchecking it’s startup program. Ubuntu Tweak ought to cover all bases.
By Dale L. on May 2, 2010 | Reply
Would like to know what is the size and image file format for changing the login screen background? I haven’t found any tips anywhere…
By Jack on May 3, 2010 | Reply
Can you please add a Gnome setting option for the mouse to “snap to” the default button in the gui, similar to the option in windows. Many people would like to see this implemented.
The Gnome developers refuse to add an OPTION for this for some reason… not sure why not; if they don’t like it they could just switch it off.
By stross on May 3, 2010 | Reply
Nice job with ubuntu tweak. One thing that may be improve in a future version. It’s not to be blocked during software installs, this way we can continue using ubuntu tweak during big installs (After a new ubuntu install for example). Don’t know if gnome permits it ?
Anyway great tool !
By R on May 4, 2010 | Reply
+1 to By ThanhVu Nguyen on Apr 30, 2010
Installed via rep. Open crashes with the following traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/ubuntu-tweak”, line 110, in
launcher = TweakLauncher(session_bus, MainWindow())
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ubuntutweak/mainwindow.py”, line 184, in __init__
self.update_model()
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ubuntutweak/mainwindow.py”, line 283, in update_model
module_list = MLOADER.get_category(module[MODULE_TYPE])
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ubuntutweak/modules/__init__.py”, line 58, in get_category
return self.module_table[category]
KeyError: ‘desktop’
Best,
R
By Андрей on May 8, 2010 | Reply
Программа просто замечательная, во многом использую только её!..
Спасибо огромное разработчикам!!!
By Kent on May 10, 2010 | Reply
When trying to change the GDM background, I cannot unlock the settings. I click ‘unlock’ and nothing happens.
By Tofi on May 19, 2010 | Reply
Ubuntu Tweak should automate fix duplicate entries in sources.list .
By Steve on May 28, 2010 | Reply
+1 to By ThanhVu Nguyen on Apr 30, 2010
Installed via rep. Open crashes with the following traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/ubuntu-tweak”, line 110, in
launcher = TweakLauncher(session_bus, MainWindow())
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ubuntutweak/mainwindow.py”, line 184, in __init__
self.update_model()
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ubuntutweak/mainwindow.py”, line 283, in update_model
module_list = MLOADER.get_category(module[MODULE_TYPE])
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ubuntutweak/modules/__init__.py”, line 58, in get_category
return self.module_table[category]
KeyError: ‘desktop’
Best,
R
By Raul Saavedra on Jun 4, 2010 | Reply
I have Ubuntu 10.04. Installed Ubuntu Tweak and was able to change the login screen background and logo with no problem. Yet, the Gnome Settings option, “Click this button to change the menu logo image” does not work. It changes the image temporarily, even asks me if I want to make the changes effectively immediately. I say yes, and the panel blinks, but nothing changed. I close and rerun Ubuntu Tweak, and this image remains the same old one. Doesn’t work for me. Is there a bug reported for this?
By Raul Saavedra on Jun 4, 2010 | Reply
I meant to say, changes the logo image “temporarily” only on Ubuntu Tweak’s own button, not on the actual panel.