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Canonical
11 January 2010

Empathy Paper Jam

Ubuntu Design

Last week marked our first “paper jam” for the Lucid cycle, during which the Ubuntu community identified ten potential paper cuts affecting Empathy to fix in Ubuntu 10.04. These paper cuts include:Open (but do not raise) new conversation windows automatically“Automatically connect on startup” setting confusing – users may expect this to r ...

Canonical
24 November 2009

One Hundred Paper Cuts: Karmic summary and Lucid plans

Ubuntu Design

Karmic RetrospectiveLong story short: we fixed 76 paper cuts for Karmic. Hooray! Congratulations! For more details, see the Ubuntu wiki page.(I believe we actually reached 100, but many paper cuts were fixed without being reported or carefully tracked, and some individual paper cuts addressed multiple instances of a general of problem.)Wh ...

Canonical
28 August 2009

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 8 Progress Report

Ubuntu Design

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 8 came and went last week, and good progress was made:Login screen clock has AM/PM suffix despite 24-hour formatTed M Lin identified the root of the problem (a small string time descriptor needed changing) and Bruce Cowan notes that the upstream merge is pending.cliparts are not in gallery-path of openoffice ...

Canonical
20 August 2009

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 7 Progress Report

Ubuntu Design

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 7 drew to a close last week. Here are the paper cuts that were (or were not) addressed:GNOME Panel icons (on right side) move apparently randomly on session start in some situationsRyan Maki wrote a surprisingly small patch to fix this long-standing and very annoying bug with over forty duplicates. ...

Canonical
11 August 2009

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 6 Progress Report

Ubuntu Design

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 6 contained some of the easiest-to-fix paper cuts we’ve seen so far, but it made less progress than any previous milestone. Perhaps this is indicative of the psychology behind paper cuts; the bugs that are easiest to fix often get the least attention. The two paper cuts that made discernible ...

Canonical
10 August 2009

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 5 Progress Report

Ubuntu Design

Without further ado, here’s an update on the fifth round of the One Hundred Paper Cuts project. The paper cuts addressed were:When nautilus cannot unmount a media, it must tell whyKarmic inherited a nice dialog from upstream Nautilus that assists the user who tries to unmount a busy drive. Excellent!Cannot install fonts using method descr ...

Canonical
4 August 2009

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 4 Progress Report

Ubuntu Design

The fourth milestone in the One Hundred Paper Cuts project came and went over a week ago. Here’s a summary of the issues addressed:F-Spot puts photos in Photos folder not Pictures folderA patch from an F-Spot developer exists in Bugzilla, and has been iterated a few times using feedback from other developers. The upstream bug ...

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