The Good and Bad of Unity (Part 1): Useless Application Menu

Foreword: I wrote many articles in my Chinese blog (imtx.me), and I have a lot of readers.

Back to five years ago, when I first started my blog, many of my articles were just translated from the English articles.

After five years’ writing, I have a lot of my own thoughts, so most articles were written by me. A friend told me that it’s time to translate my articles back to English, to share with the people over the world.

So, here’s the first article not about Ubuntu Tweak. I don’t have a good written English yet, but I will improve. Just point out the grammar/word mistake, thanks!

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The first thing after you install Ubuntu

Hello folks.

Only three days after Ubuntu Tweak 0.4.0′s release, it has been downloads for 10,000 times!

You can see the DownloadCount here. And the number is still increase.

I’ve made some mistakes so that some people can’t use Ubuntu Tweak 0.4.0, now the problem is solved so if you have any problem with Ubuntu Tweak, Please update from the repository.

Okay, at this post, I want to know the frist thing after you install Ubuntu.

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Turn on the Compositing Feature of Metacity

Thanks of Valentin, he added a new feature of Ubuntu Tweak, so that Ubuntu Tweak has the ability to turn on the Compositing Feature of Metacity. It is only work under Ubuntu 8.04.

Metacity is a compositing manager in Hardy now. But Compiz Fusion is turn on under Hardy by default if your hardware support. Now there’s another way to enjoy the Compositing feature, fast and simple. Continue reading

Pagico for Ubuntu is released!

In this article About Why Ubuntu Tweak disappeared in Gnomefiles, I mentioned the Pagico.

Pagico is an Organizer Software, it has a lot of amazing features. I just can’t list them all, if you interested of it, please visit here.

Today, there’s a good news. Pagico is finally working on both Feisty and Gutsy of all architecture(i386 or amd64)!

the first stable release of Pagico for Ubuntu is available!

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