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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 alpha. We recommend not trying this on a production machine, make a dedicated USB stick (see above)

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

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