First sorry about the past few months, I did not have an update of Ubuntu Tweak. This is because many things happened to me: a small car accident, change of job, change of city…
But everything is OK now, and I want to say: Ubuntu Tweak is not dead.
Here comes the beta version of Ubuntu Tweak 0.6!
Ubuntu Tweak 0.6, as I written at April 1st (First look at the next generation of Ubuntu Tweak!), is almost done, even part of the development document is ready.
Now please allow me to introduce the highlights of Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 (and screenshots):
- New UI
- New clips feature: first screen information
- All features are plug-able
- Package Cleaner becomes a new major part feature as tbe “Janitor”
Four major features: Overview, Tweaks, Admins and Janitor
At Preferences, you can manage the plugins, enable or disable, or install new plugin.
Tweaks and Admins, designed like GNOME Control Center, but with a more easy to use “back” and “forward” arrows.
A specific tweaks: Compiz Settings, you know it, right?
Computer Janitor, clean the cruft has never been so easy!
Because this post is not going to be a release post, so I’m not going to write any more about the details.
If you are interested in the Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 and want to play with it, try to do by these steps (Notes: only for Natty & Oneiric, but Oneiric is not well supported yet)
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/next
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak
Where is the App Center & Source Center?
As you may notice, where is the “App Center” and “Source Center”?
Currently, they’re not developed yet, but I plan to provide them as plugins in the future. So, it means in Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 beta, you will not be able to use them.
I know everyone likes the Source Center, so I provide another way to keep using it by installing Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.x along with 0.6:
- sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak-0
Yes, the ubuntu-tweak-0 package in the Next PPA is the old Ubuntu Tweak 0.5, you can use it as normal.
What about the support of upcoming Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric?
Of course Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 will support Oneiric, but there’re still many works to do. If you can write plugin for Ubuntu Tweak for the Oneiric specific tweaks, I will appreciate your work 
When Ubuntu Tweak is ready for Oneiric, I will update for another post.
How to develop plugins for Ubuntu Tweak 0.6?
There is a wiki page about Ubuntu Tweak: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuTweak
For more specific page for writing plugins, you should read: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuTweak/HowToWritePlugins
And of course, the source code of Ubuntu Tweak itself is always an up-to-date guide 
OK, that’s all.
Feel free to report your issues or ask questions on the launchpad page. Hope it will be ready before Oneiric’s release.
Thanks for all your support!
WOW~~~GREAT! I PROUDE OF U!
新UI真好看！推广文章也很棒。
Cheers. It’s difficult to keep a project on-going like this. You’ve done really great job!
这英文读者不错
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THANKS !
I’m sorry to hear you had such a rough time lately. Hopefully it’ll get better in the foreseeable future. On the bright side, UT seems to be coming along quite nicely. I wish you all the good luck with this exquisite project.
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这英语我竟然看懂了!!..
Sorry to hear that you got a car accident. I have thought that the author of tweak is a Chinese. I like this software very much, thanks for what you have done.
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i want to try it!
加油！
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Was that accident serious? Is everything OK now? It is great to hear about the new beta and the plug-in system. Realy proud of You..
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i think new design is good, but will be graet if you add new functional, like the lite compiz manager or the unity settings.
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Yeah, you come back ! It’s great for you and the community because Ubuntu tweak is so powerfull….
Found a bug. Should I report it here?
nevermind, reported it on the bug site. it’s the bug about default thumbnails size. crazy bug
Keep on, 主席！
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I think you’ve done really great job!
One of my favorite application to tweak my Ubuntu Lucid
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Janitor scans and finds cruft but doesn’t clean –
Ubuntu 11.10 (oneric)
Kernel Linux 3.0.0-12
Gnome 3.2.0
found the same problem (thnx)
Awesome!! thanks!
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today the last update – in ubuntu 11.10 – give this error:
Il demone di Ubuntu Tweak non è partito correttamente. Questo significa che alcune caratteristiche avanzate potrebbero non funzionare.
Se volete aiutare gli sviluppatori nell’operazione di debug, provate ad eseguire “sudo /usr/share/ubuntu-tweak/ubuntu-tweak-daemon” in un terminale.
thanks!
Hi,
I have installed UbuntuTweak0.6 in oneric. After today’s update it has started giving the error as under. Sorry for posting this here, could not find an area for bug submission.
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No handlers could be found for logger “DbusProxy”
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/share/ubuntu-tweak/ubuntu-tweak-daemon”, line 30, in
Daemon(dbus.SystemBus(), mainloop)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ubuntutweak/backends/daemon.py”, line 117, in __init__
PolicyKitService.__init__(self, bus_name, PATH)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/service.py”, line 480, in __init__
self.add_to_connection(conn, object_path)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/service.py”, line 571, in add_to_connection
self._fallback)
RuntimeError: To make asynchronous calls, receive signals or export objects, D-Bus connections must be attached to a main loop by passing mainloop=… to the constructor or calling dbus.set_default_main_loop(…)
You have made the lives of a lot of Ubuntu users very easy !
Great Ubuntu + Great U =Great Tweak
today the last update – in ubuntu 11.10 – give this error:
Il demone di Ubuntu Tweak non è partito correttamente. Questo significa che alcune caratteristiche avanzate potrebbero non funzionare.
Se volete aiutare gli sviluppatori nell’operazione di debug, provate ad eseguire “sudo /usr/share/ubuntu-tweak/ubuntu-tweak-daemon” in un terminale.
thanks!
For peoples that does not speaks italian, Fernando said:
“The Ubuntu Tweak daemon does not start properly. This means that some of the advanced characteristics could not be working. If you want to help the developers in debugging ops, you could try to run the following command:
“sudo /usr/share/ubuntu-tweak/ubuntu-tweak-daemon” in a terminal”.
Grazie.
Tried, sudo /usr/share/ubuntu-tweak/ubuntu-tweak-daemon and got no results! Of course ubuntu-tweak just shows a glimpse of the flash screen and disappear on my system when started!
Hi guys,
Could you tell me please when do have you planned to release a version for Tweak Oneric ? Can you give us a date or a release number ?
cheers
Antonio
Thanks a lot for ur work really!!! thanks!1 is greatfull that there is people like you around ^^.
Hi!
First, good job! This is a very good app.
When the 0.6 will be release?
Well I do hope that the app center returns as it was an easy way to add repositories in the past that normally you would have t0 use command line for/ or synaptic
And since its impossible to refresh repositories in oneric without command line unless you install synaptic hope the app center returns for ubuntu 12.04.
I think Unity Settings is good but you should add Panel Opacity in it. It will be great.
Both 0.5 and 0.6 run on my Toshiba NB505-N508BL With 64bit Ubuntu 11.10, but the ShuttleX SB75G2 running 32bit Ubuntu 11.10 is somewhat working with the 0.5 version of Ubuntu Tweak, but the 0.6 version, even after todays update, still just shows the splash screen for an instant then disappears! 0.5 doesn’t seem to be able to get rid of the lock screen, but works for repositories and applications!
The package gir1.2-notify-0.7 should be in the dependencies, otherwise I get:
$ ubuntu-tweak
ERROR:root:Could not find any typelib for Notify
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/ubuntu-tweak”, line 34, in
from ubuntutweak.common.consts import VERSION, IS_INSTALLED, IS_TESTING
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ubuntutweak/common/consts.py”, line 14, in
from gi.repository import GLib, Notify
ImportError: cannot import name Notify
Running in Ubuntu 11.10…
Really miss the features to add “Open As Administrator” to right-click menus, and to add common scripts. Will they be added soon, or are they going to be dropped?
11.10
Nautilus-gksu
This solution works for me
sudo cp /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-2.0/libnautilus-gksu.so /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/
很好～～
running 11.10, when I go in File Type Manager UT hangs and I have to either force-quit or kill it via system monitor
Good job, thank you very much for your hard work. It does mean a lot.
Hello, I wish you a swift and that Ubuntu Tweak still good for a long time, thank you for continuing with the software ..
Brazil