Unity

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

• Unity Homepage

• Unity Architecture

• Unity Bitesize Bugs - A great place for new hackers to contribute improvements and fixes.

• Coding Style Guidelines

• Launcher Integration - For application developers that want to add progress bars and other "overlays" onto their icon in the Unity Launcher

How to test Unity 3.0 (compiz based)

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

• How to make a persistent USB Key for Unity Testing.

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 source or want to open a bug without using 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

• Please consult the Hardware Requirements for Unity.

• To report bugs: see UnityFilingBugs

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