My OperaJaunty Alpha Six Test
Thursday, March 19, 2009 5:43:11 AM
Last time I tested Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope Alpha Five, now that Alpha Six is out is time to blog about my experience with it.
In the first few days of Alpha Six everything was almost as with Alpha Five, look at this official release notes portion:
" Not much information is available on this release; in fact, both the release announcement and release notes are almost exactly the same as for alpha 5. The only difference is the number of known issues - with alpha 6, two of the seven known issues have been resolved..."
But things have changed since alpha six was released. The development team has been very busy stabilizing the system before it comes out in April. It's been big update after big update after big update. It's scary, this people really do work fast!
Now the FGLRX driver can be used on my computer, I noticed it because after I updated the system and restarted the PC Metacity wasn't laggy while moving the windows and Firefox was snappier, even the smooth scrolling feature was working fine (except in Flash heavy sites as IGN.comwhich can become choppy). When I installed the ATI proprietary drivers Compiz was activated and it's working very nice, I don't know if the development team tweaked the "Wobbly Windows" effect or the Compiz team worked on it for the new release because it feels different, it feels more wobbly, if you use this effect, when you maximize or unmaximize a window you will notice the difference. One draw back was when you enable Compiz Firefox's smooth scroll gets choppy even on lite web pages.
Jaunty has a new feature that adjust the fonts automatically for your monitor. Now fonts look better in my 22" wide screen monitor. It's very notable in the file manager and some websites.
Another cool thing is the "gnome-themes-ubuntu" package, which features three of the most popular community created themes. Dust, Dust Sand and New Wave. These themes look better than the default Ubuntu theme, Human. I wish these themes had different Icon Themes, like Meliae. When I used Dust I changed the "Selected Items" color to the Meliae folder color and instead of using the brown window border I used the blue version. Now I'm using New Marmol , which is basically New Wave, but the window border is grey as well and the menu bar is grey as well and it uses Gnome Colors - Human Icon set with some variations to make it feel like an Official Ubuntu Icon Set.
Also there is also a new Login Screen and usplash themes. Both look great and give Ubuntu a more polished look and feel. It looks like Mark Shuttleworth's promise is taking shape. I hope this dream comes true because I feel a lot of passion for Ubuntu, and seeing it grow and take different directions and shapes makes me feel proud of being part of this dream.
Someday Ubuntu's presence will be felt in the computer market and we will get the respect and support we need to free the world from Microsoft's clutches.
In the first few days of Alpha Six everything was almost as with Alpha Five, look at this official release notes portion:
" Not much information is available on this release; in fact, both the release announcement and release notes are almost exactly the same as for alpha 5. The only difference is the number of known issues - with alpha 6, two of the seven known issues have been resolved..."
But things have changed since alpha six was released. The development team has been very busy stabilizing the system before it comes out in April. It's been big update after big update after big update. It's scary, this people really do work fast!
Now the FGLRX driver can be used on my computer, I noticed it because after I updated the system and restarted the PC Metacity wasn't laggy while moving the windows and Firefox was snappier, even the smooth scrolling feature was working fine (except in Flash heavy sites as IGN.comwhich can become choppy). When I installed the ATI proprietary drivers Compiz was activated and it's working very nice, I don't know if the development team tweaked the "Wobbly Windows" effect or the Compiz team worked on it for the new release because it feels different, it feels more wobbly, if you use this effect, when you maximize or unmaximize a window you will notice the difference. One draw back was when you enable Compiz Firefox's smooth scroll gets choppy even on lite web pages.
Jaunty has a new feature that adjust the fonts automatically for your monitor. Now fonts look better in my 22" wide screen monitor. It's very notable in the file manager and some websites.
Another cool thing is the "gnome-themes-ubuntu" package, which features three of the most popular community created themes. Dust, Dust Sand and New Wave. These themes look better than the default Ubuntu theme, Human. I wish these themes had different Icon Themes, like Meliae. When I used Dust I changed the "Selected Items" color to the Meliae folder color and instead of using the brown window border I used the blue version. Now I'm using New Marmol , which is basically New Wave, but the window border is grey as well and the menu bar is grey as well and it uses Gnome Colors - Human Icon set with some variations to make it feel like an Official Ubuntu Icon Set.
Also there is also a new Login Screen and usplash themes. Both look great and give Ubuntu a more polished look and feel. It looks like Mark Shuttleworth's promise is taking shape. I hope this dream comes true because I feel a lot of passion for Ubuntu, and seeing it grow and take different directions and shapes makes me feel proud of being part of this dream.
Someday Ubuntu's presence will be felt in the computer market and we will get the respect and support we need to free the world from Microsoft's clutches.
