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Blog posts tagged
"Ubuntu"


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 ...


Canonical
28 July 2009

Distributed user testing of archive behavior in Ubuntu

Ubuntu Design

In response to two paper cuts, “Have the file-roller automatically extract an archive on double click” and “‘Archive Manager’ doesn’t mean anything if you don’t know what an ‘archive’ is”, the Canonical Design Team devised a user test of archive behavior in Ubuntu, and we’re inviting the community to help administer the test and collect ...


Canonical
24 July 2009

Karmic desktop contest script

Ubuntu Design

I wrote a quick-and-dirty Haskell script to download photos from the Karmic Desktop Contest, setting a new photo as your desktop background every ten minutes. Make sure you cabal install flickr first. ...