Welcome to PCWizKid’s Tech Talk. Today, I want to review the Ubuntu operating systems desktop, I other words, the work space.
So if we look at my work space here, on the top left corner, we’ve got the applications, places and systems, and these are menus that comes down at Ubuntu operating system. Over here you can see that I’ve got a couple of shortcuts that I’ve added my self and you can of course add and remove and configure this.
If you look at the applications, under that, just like in Windows, you’ve got accessories which have standard options, games which have built in games, which is familiar to Windows.
Under graphic, we got a couple of utilities which are pretty neat like the GIMP image editor.
The internet option obviously has the chat, torrent utilities, your browser.
Under the office, well, like in Microsoft office, you’ve got the free open source office utilities as programs.
And under other, you can add widgets and screenlets and they appear under here.
On the programming, I added the blue fish editor for creating web pages.
Under sound and video, you’ve got your standard CD player, your recording editing software.
And under system tools you can add some neat utilities such as the mount drives and accessing of course Windows programs.
The wine.
You can add in new things through the add remove option. Obviously here at the bottom.
Places, add the ability to navigate through out your operating systems and access different areas.
And under system, you’ve got the equivalent to what is the control panel. Then if you want to add any change system settings or access, devices, and services, you can control all that through there.
On the other side of the work space here, on the right hand side, we’ve got what would be equivalent to the Windows to the task bar system options here that are currently running. I’ve got a couple of things that I have added myself. What comes default, I have here the date and time and the log off button. On the left here you could see I’ve got some work space switchers and you’ve got home, some different options here you can add by just right clicking on that top panel. So that basically shows you a good example of what a desktop is.
I’ve got a couple of shortcuts that I have added. By default, nothing comes on the work space, some of those you can add yourself and you can create shortcuts by right clicking on the work space and then choosing the create launcher option. So here, you would just select your application and browse for it. Similar to your Windows, where you could right click and create a shortcut and browse for you executable.
I’m going to just quickly browse into my games folder and choose one of the built in games here and let’s take a look. Robots, I’ll just select the robots and then add that. so that would be my shortcut here. So then you just put in the name, just like you would for any link or shortcut and create your launcher that way.
After you put in your description for your self, just press the OK button here on the top bottom and then it creates the shortcut on your work space. So there you go. Just double click on that and you’ll just launch this.
So that’s how you create the shortcut, it’s pretty straight forward, it’s a clean interface, I like it a lot. I use the Windows of course but when I installed it here with Ubuntu, I neatedely saw similarities and its nothing forward. Once you start using it and you right click, and you see what options you have available for you to use, its pretty straight forward. When you right click and you add options to your panel, well everything is there that you have available to add. So if you wanted to display your trash can or you wanted to show your desktop, when you go into display, the CPU temperature, all of that is available here. You just go in and select it and then add it to the panel. That’s how you do it and then it just appears at the top. Then you can just move it of course and sort thing the way you like it.
Another thing that I have of my work space are what in Windows, you would know it as Widget for example. So here, it’s a screen lit, and if I right click on a screen lit that I already installed, it’s pretty straight forward, you just see the properties of it and you can manipulate your little widget. In this case, its just a clock the has several different themes and styles that I could choose from. And that’s essentially my work space here just briefly for those interested and thinking about installing Ubuntu.
Enjoy and thank you for watching!
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