Blog posts tagged
"papercuts"

18 posts


Canonical
26 November 2010

Papercuts: Litmus test

Development Ubuntu

Papercuts Natty cycle depends on you!What’s new this cycle and How you can get involved.

Canonical
26 November 2010


Canonical
25 November 2010

Here come the Ninjas

Development Ubuntu

Announcing an all new team focused on fixing bugs, Papercuts Ninja team, and why you should be excited!

Canonical
25 November 2010


Canonical
27 August 2010

Boo-yah!!!

Development Ubuntu

105 papercut bugs have been fixed in Maverick already! Read on to find out how you can help us clear even more.

Canonical
27 August 2010


Canonical
13 August 2010

This week in design – 13 August 2010

Design Ubuntu

It’s Friday the 13th! Thankfully it’s past midday so safe to write this post. We’ve had a busy week although it’s been a bit quiet as people have been away on holidays or working remotely. First up this week? We can’t go anywhere without talking about the theme. Updates to the Ubuntu desktop theme Last

Canonical
13 August 2010


Canonical
9 August 2010

60 and still going strong!

Development Ubuntu

We hit another important milestone today! Find out what pesky papercuts have been resolved!

Canonical
9 August 2010


Canonical
29 April 2010

Reasons to celebrate 29th April 2010

Design Ubuntu

One of the first things I did when I joined Canonical just over a year ago was conduct some user research. The idea was to identify some broad areas that needed to be addressed and so I devised sessions that included topics like dealing with music and photos, browsing the Internet, chatting with friends, etc.

Canonical
29 April 2010


Canonical
2 March 2010

Only 25 Paper Cuts left for Lucid!

Design Ubuntu

That’s right, we’ve fixed 75 paper cuts for Lucid already! We only need to fix 25 more to reach 100, but with many important freezes occurring over the next couple weeks we need to prioritize and focus.UI freeze comes this Thursday, March 4. This means that paper cuts involving user-facing changes (e.g. labels, menus, buttons)

Canonical
2 March 2010


Canonical
15 February 2010

One Hundred Paper Cuts for Lucid, Round 10

Design Ubuntu

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


Canonical
9 February 2010

Lucid Paper Cuts Round 9 Progress Report

Design Ubuntu

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
9 February 2010


Canonical
5 February 2010

Improved window management shortcuts land in Lucid

Design Ubuntu

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...

Canonical
5 February 2010


Canonical
26 January 2010

Lucid Paper Jam update!

Design Ubuntu

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...

Canonical
26 January 2010


Canonical
11 January 2010

Empathy Paper Jam

Design Ubuntu

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...

Canonical
11 January 2010


Canonical
24 November 2009

One Hundred Paper Cuts: Karmic summary and Lucid plans

Design Ubuntu

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...

Canonical
24 November 2009


Canonical
28 August 2009

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 8 Progress Report

Design Ubuntu

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...

Canonical
28 August 2009


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