Create a Launcher manually for Unity

Today was the release of eclipse 3.7 code named Indigo. After installation I wanted a shortcut of the new eclipse on the launcher in Unity but every time I've tried the launcher would just called eclipse in the system which called the default eclipse in Ubuntu which is 3.5.

I wanted the shortcut to call my new eclipse I had installed under /opt. Here is how to:

$ gedit ~/.local/share/applications/eclipse.desktop

 And enter the following in the file:

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open

[Desktop Entry]

Version=1.0

Type=Application

Terminal=false

StartupNotify=true

Icon=/opt/eclipse/icon.xpm

Name=Eclipse Indigo 3.7

Exec=env UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 /opt/eclipse/eclipse

And save the file. Hope this helps.

I got help from here 

Nautilus Elementary Tweak theme for Ubuntu 10.10 or 11.04

simplygreat has posted a nice tweak for the theme of the Nautilus elementary which it makes it to integrate more with Ubuntu.

Here is the link to DebianArt

I also like the alternative instructions by Cybolic

About the installation, you can also just unpack "nautilus.rc" and the folder "nautilus" into $HOME/.gtk/ and put the following two lines in $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0:

include "/usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
include ".gtk/nautilus.rc"

Get the dropbox appindicator to work in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal

We all moved from 10.10 to 11.04 and by doing so we also adopted the new Unity interface. We all know that Unity still in infancy and still a lot of things that need fixing like this bug I reported to the Untiy Launchpad page which looks like that conky is causing it.

Some of them are bigger issues than others, and hopefully as we move forward to 11.10, Unity will be more like the interface we all expected to be, but for now we all gonna have to patch things up .

Anyway, Andrei at Webup8 has this patch for fixing the dropbox appindicator issue.