Introducing Ubuntu GitHub Lens for Unity

Following our previous articles, Photo Lens, Radio Lens, RuneScape Wikia Lens, German Ubuntu Forum Lens, Web History Lens, Rotten Tomatoes Scope, Clear Dark Sky Lens, DuckDuckGo Lens, News Lens, Pidgin Lens, Bliss Lens, Wikipedia Lens, Bookmarks Lens, ManPages Search Lens, today we are introducing the Ubuntu GitHub Lens for the Unity interface.

The Ubuntu GitHub Lens is a Unity Dash plugin that allows users to search software projects and developers on the amazing GitHub repository.

This is a simple lens and it doesn’t feature any filters, at the moment. The results are divided in two categories: Users and Repos – each one showing both the title of the project’s repository/developer and extra details, such as short description.

GitHub is a massive software repository, hosting more than 4 million projects!

The lens is available only for the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) and Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) users. To install the Unity GitHub Lens plugin in your Ubuntu operating system, open a terminal window (hit the CTRL+ALT+T key combination) and paste the following commands (one by one, hitting Enter after each one):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:scopes-packagers/ppa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y unity-lens-github

You will need to restart your session after the installation.

The GitHub Lens in Ubuntu 12.10

Also take a look at other Unity Lens and Scopes for the Ubuntu operating system that we’ve previously introduced: Full Text Search Lens, GMusicBrowser Scope, Launchpad Lens, Dictionary Lens, Stock Quotes Lens, Cooking Lens, Music Search Scopes, Reddit Lens, Tomboy Lens, Ask Ubuntu Lens, Ubuntu Flickr/Shotwell Photos Lens, Ubuntu Spotify Scope, Ubuntu DeviantArt Scope, Ubuntu SSH Lens, Ubuntu Binary Clock Lens, Ubuntu YouTube Lens and Scope, Ubuntu Calendar Lens, Ubuntu Web Sources Lens, Ubuntu Gwibber Lens, Ubuntu Books Lens, Ubuntu Cities Scope, Ubuntu Grooveshark Scope, Ubuntu Calculator Scope and Pirate Bay Torrents Lens for Unity.