I’ve just stumbled across, that the feature for putting several pictures in a row and cycle them through as a wallpaper is not in the current version of Gnome for Ubuntu. I found a really nice tutorial at gnome-look.org where it’s described very well and easy going.

At the bottom you can adjust the time for each picture and the time for the crossfading.

To do a slideshow just:

add this to your repositories with the software manager:

ppa:crebs/ppa

and install “crebs” through synaptic afterwards or do following in the terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:crebs/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install crebs

Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 should be released today. What I saw in the beta was pretty good. One of the major changes: The window control buttons were moved to the left side of the window borders (pretty Mac-like). There also was announced that a menu on top of the screen (again we know that from MacOS) is a possible feature for 10.10 so we can expect some pretty interesting user-interface changes.

Nothing on the ftps yet, so stay tuned with ubuntu.com.