hi
Lucid beta came out, slightly delayed a few days ago, and i feel like writing abit more about it,
The boot time has improved a little again, no end of boot delay, unlike when i last wrote. I also like the new boot screen, its very simple, but nice to look at. Boot time on my eeepc 900 ssd, is around 30secs now from grub to login, not bad at all.
gnome-shell from, i think its ricotz’s ppa, is working great, a few issues in places, like the battery icon partly dissappearing under the button in the top right, for example,but nothing major.
The new theming in lucid will take some getting used to, having a purple background in terminal, definatly feels a little hippy to my eye.
Overall i am very happy, things are moving long really well,
Also best to mention if there is any interest in a Banbury Lucid Release party, so please get hold of me, and tell me, if you like the idea. and have a look at the lucid release party page on the ubuntu wiki, so i know if there is any interest, Thanks,
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I’ve not used lucid for very long (installed it yesterday) but it seems okay.
The default theme looks too much like the mac for my liking but it’s not too bad. The darker of the two new themes is quite nice and it’s the one I’m using at the moment. The default background looks okay as well, although I’m using one of Bruce’s because they look nicer
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I’m not sure I like the idea of the purple though… maybe a nice blue?