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Other Operating Systems => Linux, gOS, Harmony OS, Moblin, Ubuntu, OpenSuse => Topic started by: javajolt on June 13, 2011, 08:35:50 PM
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1.) Confity
Confity is a simple tool to help you configure your Ubuntu Unity desktop. There are quite a few options related to Unity Launcher and quicklist.
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Installation:
Download Confity from http://sourceforge.net/projects/confity/. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/confity/.) Extract the package and click to run confity.py
2.) Gunity
Another tool to easy tweak unity desktop, it has following features:
• Adjust the size of the launcher icons
• Change the panel opacity
• Change the Launcher hiding animation and visibility
• Enable or disable blur for Dash
• Edit the ‘reveal’ mode
• Tweak the number of workspaces/rows
Compare to Confity, Gunity doesn’t seem to handle the quicklists.
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Installation:
Download and install the .deb from http://blog.ckdevelop.org/data/documents/shell/gunity-11.05.13_g2s2.2.3beta5ckd.deb (http://blog.ckdevelop.org/data/documents/shell/gunity-11.05.13_g2s2.2.3beta5ckd.deb)
3.) Unity-Launcher-Editor
Unity-Launcher-Editor is still in the early development phase. Currently it can add/remove/edit Unity Launcher items and quicklist groups.
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Installation:
Unity-Launcher-Editor is a GUI designed to manage Unity Launcher items and quicklists. So far, it supports add/remove Launcher items, customize quicklist group, and even change shortcut icons.
This project is hosted on Launchpad (http://launchpad.net/unity-launcher-editor), and still in the early development phase.
To install unity-launcher-editor, first open up a terminal window and type in this two commands:
sudo apt-get install bzr
bzr branch lp:unity-launcher-editor
After that, run the command to start the GUI:
~/unity-launcher-editor/unitylaunchereditor/main.py
unity-launcher-editor on launchpad.net: here (http://launchpad.net/unity-launcher-editor)
For more in depth reading have a look here (http://ubuntuguide.net/manage-ubuntu-11-04-unity-launcher-quicklist-using-unity-launcher-editor).