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Ubuntu’s One Hundred Paper Cuts Project is Precisely Back!

Three, two, one, GO! The One Hundred Paper Cuts project is back for the Ubuntu 12.04 development cycle, to make 12.04 LTS the most bug-free, precise and pixel-perfect Ubuntu release ever! What is a paper cut? No, not the ones you get on your fingers. Put briefly, a paper cut is a trivially fixable usability bug that [...]

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GNOME Declares War on Minor Bugs With ‘Every Detail Matters’ Project

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GNOME’s Allan Day has announced the launch of a new development project aimed at fixing ‘the small bugs [in GNOME] that ..undermine the overall experience.’

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One Hundred Paper Cuts’ Oneiric cycle has started, get involved!

It’s the beginning of yet another cycle of bug fixing, squashing, smashing and thrashing! The One Hundred Papercuts Project is back for the Oneiric cycle, with lots of tiny and trivial bugs, a.k.a Papercuts, waiting to be fixed by everyday people like yourself.

Make the jump to find out how you can help.

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Weekend! 5! – Five Papercuts to fix this weekend

Ever bothered by the little usablity bugs that are generally overlooked by developers? Here we list 5 of them that you could spend your weekend fixing and making everyone happy.

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Papercuts project back for Natty

One Hundred Papercuts Project logo

The One Hundred Papercuts project is back for another round of dedicated bug fixing during the Ubuntu 11.04 development cycle. But this time with a slight difference… The Aim During the Maverick development cycle the paper cuts team shot straight past their planned goal of squashing 100 niggling issues, going on to fix 117 bugs [...]

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C’mon Mozilla, show me my Firefox icon!

Firefox – why won’t you adhere to my icon theme!?

Small issues sometime grate the most and the following bug falls squarely into that category…

Click through for the rest of the rant.

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Ubuntu fixes 100 paper-cuts for Maverick – Already!

A short, sharp and congratulatory post right now as news as reached my ear that  the100 paper cuts initiative for Maverick has hit its goal with a full, fat round 100 ‘cuts’ fixed and released. Out of the 100 fixes 16 alone were fixed by Bilal ‘bug crusher’ Akhtar, a much championed Ubuntu contributor (and [...]

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100 Papercuts Returns For Lucid

David Siegel has posted about the plans for the “100 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 [...]

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