Smart Home Project – Setting up a "smart" home
I have previously blogged on Ubuntu's Natty Narwhal Unity shortcomings , and added some additional thoughts on my own configuration. With a non-hiding Unity launcher that works as an old-style launcher and as a windows list, what I really missed were the applets. It turns out that there are many efforts to replace those applets with "indicators", for example see this link . So I installed the weather indicator, the system load indicator and this allowed me to get back to a decent configuration that I find e
posted by Simon at 21:04
I have previously blogged on Natty Narwhal's Unity shortcomings , but I decided to give it few more days, and I here are my further comments. I configured the launcher with 32 pixels icons and disabled auto-hiding. This basically brought me back an old-style launcher and a windows list that is always visible, allowing to glance at it for visual information regarding running applications. Unity's launcher seems to be designed to play the role of both an application launcher (via icon clicking) and of a windo
Smart Home Project – Setting up a "smart" home