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Ubuntu Unity's dash brings along the power to implement some quite helpful things to make life easier at your computer - these implementations come in the form of lens that use Unity's search bar, such as the Recoll lens. With
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If you would like your Ubuntu 11.10 better with the old GNOME desktop (no launcher but a good old system panel and so on), you can just install the gnome package and choose it as your default desktop environment. Therefore