100 Papercuts Returns For Lucid

By , Published November 24, 2009

David Siegel has posted about the plans for the €œ100 papercuts€ proposals for Lucid Lynx.

For those that don't know, the 100 papercuts initiative sets out to fix those tiny bugs and trivial user interface issues €“ i.e. papercuts €“ that normally get looked over in the grand scheme of things, but which can really hinder a users experience of Ubuntu.

Cuts fixed for Karmic Koala included allowing easy install of fonts, changing the Ethernet icon to better suit the panel and addressing plenty of over-sized dialogs.

'Cuts that will be salved (not a typo!) in Lucid range from creating a cohesive set of default compiz settings, setting out notification behaviours (priorities, do not disturb, etc), fixing issues in Empathy, Gwibber, Rhythmbox and PiTiVi and, well, a tone more that haven't yet been found!

F-Spot and Eye-Of-Gnome will also find themselves rubbed in balm to address the removal of GIMP from Lucid.

Round About

As with Karmic there will be 10 rounds of 10 papercuts to €œfix€. Each 'round' will have a specific theme (such as Gwibber, Compiz, Notifications & Sound/Video.)

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

Related posts:

  1. Lucid Lynx: What We Know So Far
  2. Lucid Lynx Release Schedule
  3. Ubuntu 10.04 Named 'Lucid Lynx'
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  • http://pensieriacoriandoli.blogspot.com/ Giorg

    what about those papercuts approved but not fixed in karmic? Will they just be abandoned or will someone still try to implement them?

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      I kinda skipped over that, sorry. Those left over from Karmic will be fixed in the first few rounds of the lucid go.

  • Anonymous

    I personally can’t wait to see what will come of this. The first 100 papercuts in Karmic really helped boost the user experience, let’s hope that will be the case with Lucid.

    Hopefully PulseAudio and Audacity will be targeted for their Sound and Video round.

  • http://twitter.com/Temikus Artemis Yakimenko

    Let the first round be: “Fixing the damn software store.” It’s interface is a mess, the program itself became clumsy and totally useless…

    • Anonymous

      There was some mention of them possibly using Clutter in their Software Store interface. If that’s the case, I’d be stoked.

      • http://twitter.com/Temikus Artemis Yakimenko

        Let us hope so. But for now I’ll stick to synaptic and apt-get :)

    • Matthew

      The Software Center is a work in program–its roadmap goes through Ubuntu 11.04 (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#April 2011). They’re implementing the interface one piece at a time–you will get your fix!

      • Matthew

        Er, I meant “work in progress”.

      • http://twitter.com/Temikus Artemis Yakimenko

        That’s good to hear :)

  • http://equimantux.wordpress.com/ €quiman

    For me… this bug need atention: Consistent Volume “Safe to remove” notifications
    https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/386057

  • Anonymous

    Could I please just have the simple feckin’ ability to display my desktop icons as a small ordered list, for the love of god? Do that for me and I swear my fourth-born child is yours.

    • Yfrwlf

      Well you can change the size of the icons in Nautilus’ settings, but huge bugs have forever been a plague of icon order on the desktop including:

      1. “keep aligned” doesn’t keep them aligned, it only does it when you check it the first time, after which you can misalign them and have to re-check it to get it to align them. Or rename it to “align” instead of “keep aligned”.

      2. They go off the desktop constantly. In fact, if you try changing the default zoom level of them in Nautilus, you can easily make them go off the screen, and they will not be automatically moved back onto the desktop. To do that you have to tell it to “clean up by name”.

      Seriously, the Gnome developers need to decide if they want to have options to automatically manage icons, or only manage them on a one time basis, or provide both options (idea). I think they should change “keep aligned” to “keep”, leave “clean up by name” alone, and then add the options to actually KEEP them cleaned up by name and/or aligned to the Nautilus preferences, and do something about making those options accessible from the desktop because it’s not logical for a user to have to open a Nautilus window to get to the preferences when their desktop icons are right there in front of them.

      Oh and for the love of Tux, change the stupid “Change Desktop Background” to what it is already: Appearance Preferences. That’s just totally confusing.

  • daas88

    i’d love to see the xsplash papercut solved, i mean the one about freezing the splash animation and then suddenly showing the desktop.

  • http://interesting.co.nz Benjamin Humphrey
  • Anonymous

    Is there a way to find what papercuts have been fixed in Karmic Kola?
    Is there a list or somthing that we can go through?

  • warriorpoet

    Any chance on them fixing ATI driver support? That seems a mighty big miss to me. It’s gone un-addressed in two releases now (9.04, 9.10).