UI Changes?

[Andrea Bernabei]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 10:07 PM, agents4jesus at gmail.com <
agents4jesus at gmail.com> wrote:

> I ran
> sudo apt-get install unity8 -y
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> It finished, but I can't seem to find a way to run it or make it default.
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I think the best way to try Unity8 at the moment is to:
- setup Xenial 16.04
- install unity8-desktop-session-mir

and then ask on IRC if you still can't get it to boot

Hope that helps,
Andrea

Help!
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> On 02/23/2016 03:31 AM, Andrea Bernabei wrote:
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> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 11:50 PM, <agents4jesus at gmail.com>
> agents4jesus at gmail.com <agents4jesus at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> One thing that I have noticed over the years is that Ubuntu's UI really
>> hasn't changed all that much.
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>> The thing that bugs me the most is the grey "bump" at the top of any
>> window. (for example: firefox).
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>> If the UI could change to a more "flat" look (even if the grey *color*
>> stayed the same), it would give Ubuntu more of a visual appeal.
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> You might want to give Unity8 a try :)
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>> Also, the top bar that says "Ubuntu Desktop": I've tweaked it using unity
>> tweak tool to make it transparent (with blur). It makes the OS look a lot
>> more polished...except the menus are grey.
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>> If the whole UI could be tweaked just a little bit ("flattened" in some
>> places, transparent in others), that would be really awesome.
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>> I believe that the UI is due for a change anyway. It's been what? Three
>> years?
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>> I'm not sure how hard this would be, I'm an Android developer, not a
>> Linux developer, but I think if the default theme was tweaked, it wouldn't
>> be all that hard...
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>> Thanks,
>> Tony
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