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=== Crash bugs ===
For Alpha 1, the most valuable bug reports are crash reports.

After installing, enable apport: edit /etc/default/apport, set enabled=1 and restart you computer. Once activated the system should detect crashes and prompt you to report those.
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If you use the unity package in natty, run this command The best way to log a bug is to use this command:
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It will collect the required details and send you to launchpad to write your bug description It will collect the required details and send you to launchpad to write your bug description.
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=== Crash bugs ===

If you get crashing issues you might want to enable apport: edit /etc/default/apport, set enabled=1 and restart you computer. Once activated the system should detect crashes and prompt you to report those

Unity

The wiki documentation is targeting technical users, if you want to get an overview of unity you might be interested ready those:

How to test Unity 3.0 (compiz based)

This section documents how you can try out Unity 3.0 on your Ubuntu system.

Note: This software is pre-alpha. You should be comfortable with being able to downgrade multiple packages if you want to go back to a stable desktop, otherwise we recommend not trying this on a production machine. Alpha 1 will have a more stable version.

Limitations and Tips

  • This version of Unity does NOT have Places or the Dash, these will come back for Alpha 2.
  • For now, be sure to use Humanity or Humanity-Dark icon themes. Others will cause Unity 3.0 alpha to crash.

Natty

Unity is the default interface in Natty. You have two sessions in GDM:

  • Ubuntu Desktop Edition (which has unity by default)
  • Ubuntu Classic Desktop (which run the previous Ubuntu interface)

Building Unity from Source - For developers

How and where to file bugs

Crash bugs

For Alpha 1, the most valuable bug reports are crash reports.

After installing, enable apport: edit /etc/default/apport, set enabled=1 and restart you computer. Once activated the system should detect crashes and prompt you to report those.

Non crash bugs

The best way to log a bug is to use this command: 

ubuntu-bug unity

It will collect the required details and send you to launchpad to write your bug description.

(If you build unity from sources or want to use open a bug without ubuntu-bug please follow this guide)

How to Contribute to Unity

http://unity.ubuntu.com/getinvolved/ has instructions on how to get the code and hack on it.

Support

On Maverick (10.10)

There is no backported version of the new Unity in maverick but you can built it from source as described in the natty section

Unity (last edited 2014-01-21 18:49:47 by 3v1n0)