Install Unity Reddit Lens In Ubuntu [.deb]

A Reddit user has created a cool Unity Lens for Reddit (a website where you can find what's new and popular on the web with a very active Linux section). By default it displays /r/linux, /r/ubuntu, /r/iama and of course, the main stories.

The search field for the Unity Reddit Lens is basically a filter for Reddit categories so if for instance you want to see the top stories in the /r/technology category, search for "technology":

Install Unity Reddit Lens

There is no PPA to install Reddit Unity Lens but thanks to Andrew Starr-Bochicchio's packaging, I've created a .deb you can download and install in Ubuntu 11.04 (both 32bit and 64bit):

Download Unity Reddit Lens (it's called "place" instead of "lens" but anyway, it will work). 

Once installed, log out and log back in.

Configuration

Unfortunately Unity Reddit Lens doesn't come with a GUI to configure it but if you want to change the categories, you can edit the /usr/lib/unity-place-reddit/unity-reddit-daemon file and replace / add more categories. For instance you can search for the word "Iama" - replace it with some Reddit you want to use instead.

Unity Gwibber Lens (Place) For Ubuntu 11.04

Firstly, a short introduction of "Lenses" via the Ubuntu wiki: "Lenses used to be known as Places. When referring to code and APIs we still use the term Places, but the user-visible name is Lenses. The Places name will be retired in 11.10".

I've recently came upon a very interesting Unity Lens for Gwibber developed by Ken VanDine and couldn't wait to try it but it didn't really work until the latest Unity update released a few hours ago. You can use the Unity Gwibber Lens to quickly access your Gwibber posts, replies, private messages and so on. And it also comes with a search.

To use it you can click the Gwibber icon on the Unity dock (it also has a keyboard shortcut so you can use Super + G) or directly from Dash but in that case only people will show up and not tweets / posts (I think this is a bug though).

In case that sounds a bit confusing, check out the video below to see exactly how the Unity Gwibber Lens works:

Download Unity Gwibber Lens

Unity Gwibber Lens is still experimental and not everything works. You'll also find some bugs like you can see in the above video (slowness, etc.).

But if you want to use it, you can use the following .deb I've created using the official packaging and the latest BZR code.

Update: you can now install Unity Gwibber Lens from the Gwibber PPA. Add the PPA and install it using the commands below:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwibber-team/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install unity-lens-gwibber

Then log out and log back in (makes sure you've already added some accounts in Gwibber before logging out).

You can also get the latest BZR code from HERE.