Ubuntu 9.04, known during development as Jaunty Jackalope, features a major new notifications system known as ‘notify-osd’. The new notifications are graphically very nice and appealing, however some features are not necessarily desirable to everyone. I came across certain issues with the new notifications system and have made some modifications which I would like to [...]

The general update policy of Ubuntu states that application versions will be kept stable during each Ubuntu release other than in exceptional cases. Obviously security patches are still applied when available. This does mean however, with the recent release of Firefox 3.5 that Ubuntu users will have to wait until Ubuntu 9.10 until officially receiving [...]