Three tools configuring Ubuntu 11.04 Unity Interface

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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.



Installation:
 
Download Confity from 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.



Installation:
 
Download and install the .deb from 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.



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, 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

For more in depth reading have a look here.