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Blog posts tagged
"Ubuntu"


Canonical
15 February 2010

One Hundred Paper Cuts for Lucid, Round 10

Ubuntu Design

Time flies like an arrow! This week marks the final round of paper cuts for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS “Lucid Lynx.” We’ve done an outstanding job so far but we still have work ahead of us. Here are some paper cuts that need attention this round:“Create Document” Templates difficult to useRight-clicking on the Desktop and choosing ...


Canonical
15 February 2010

Have you inspired millions of people lately?

Ubuntu Article

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS “Lucid Lynx” is just around the corner and Ubuntu users around the world are eager to be inspired by your awesome artwork and photos. You know the drill–submit your photos to the Ubuntu Artwork Flickr pool and we’ll ship as many beautiful images as we can fit on the CD! ...


Canonical
9 February 2010

Lucid Paper Cuts Round 9 Progress Report

Ubuntu Design

One Hundred Paper Cuts for Lucid is going well. 56 paper cuts have been fixed so far. We have to fix at least 20 more paper cuts to match the number of paper cuts fixed in Karmic, a record you can help us surpass by working on closing the 26 paper cuts with bugs attached.This ...


Canonical
5 February 2010

Improved window management shortcuts land in Lucid

Ubuntu Design

Sebastian Bacher landed improved Compiz keyboard shortcucts in Lucid this week during the distro sprint in Portland, Oregon (which is by far the best sprint I’ve ever been to–everybody is rocking):Super↓E↓↑↑ triggers Expo as usual.Super↓W↓↑↑ scales all windows on your current workspace (hint: try typing in scale mode!).Super↓A↓↑↑ scales a ...


Canonical
26 January 2010

Lucid Paper Jam update!

Ubuntu Design

I thought I’d write a quick update on paper cut progress for Lucid. Last week was our “Sound & Video” paper jam. The following paper cuts were fixed:Totem: Must have a fullscreen button“Razor” [is] an odd name for the split toolRhythmbox Notification Bubble shows wrong cover art[Sound Recorder] Cancel button doesn’t use correct behaviour ...


Canonical
24 January 2010

Improving Launchpad bug workflow for opportunistic programmers

Ubuntu Design

I’m a talented software engineer. I have a good deal of application programming experience on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iPhone, Android, and the Web. I’m crazy about style guidelines, correctness, functional decomposition, self-documenting code, explicit documentation, code review, unit tests, etc. I’m confident that for most application co ...


Canonical
18 January 2010

IBM Client for Smart Work with Ubuntu support released

Ubuntu Desktop

At Lotusphere today we announced the availability of the IBM Client for Smart Work complete with support from Canonical. It is a significant milestone both for potential end users and for the Canonical and IBM channel. One of the gating factors to widespread adoption of Linux in the corporate desktop has been the perceived availability ...


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 ...