One Hundred Paper Cuts -- the first ten

[Rick Spencer]

Great discussion on the keyring issue.

I'm interested in the other ones too though. Anyone claim any of these
to fix?

Cheers, Rick


On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 16:23 -0500, David Siegel wrote:
> We've identified the first ten of one hundred paper cuts* that we plan 
> to fix for Karmic:
> 
> Dim files when you 'cut' them for later 'paste' action
>     https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/194213
> 
> "Move to Trash" option misleading
>     https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/30739
> 
> Ambiguous wording in confirmation alert box
>     https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/349336
> 
> "Eject/Unmount" Human theme icon in Nautilus should have hover and click 
> states
>     https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/383255
> 
> should apply icons to xdg-user-dirs
>     https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/126103
> 
> update manager should warn about laptop running on battery when 
> installing big updates
>     
> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/377697
> 
> Consistent Volume "Safe to remove" notifications
>     https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/386057
> 
> Extra menu in Create document's menu
>     https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/387655
> 
> nautilus doesn't assign custom icon to "Downloads" folder
>     https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/388570
> 
> Wifi auto-connection asks for keyring password
>     https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/388593
> 
> 
> The goal is to have all ten fixed by next Friday, at which point we will 
> announce 10% progress on the project and celebrate. If this week goes 
> well and we can get enough developers involved, we will continue at a 
> pace of ten paper cuts healed per week. With a pace like that, this 
> project is going to get a lot of attention and get everyone super 
> excited for Karmic.
> 
> If you are interested in getting involved with the project, there is no 
> better time to start. Pick one of these ten bugs and get busy: identify 
> affected projects, make contact upstream, look for patches floating 
> around, begin crafting a fix, or provide any other feedback. Also, if 
> any of these don't appear to be fixable by next Friday, please comment 
> that the bug may not be a paper cut. Some of them appear to be 
> nontrivial, but someone with more expertise might discover a trivial way 
> to make progress on the issue if not solve it completely. Canonical's 
> Design and User Experience team aims to get involved with these first 
> ten before early next week, but if a paper cut is not blocking on their 
> involvement (many are not) and you can make progress, by all means 
> please do so.
> 
> Thank you,
> David
> 
> PS: For the curious, here are the potential remaining paper cuts:
>  https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bugs?orderby=-importance&field.status%3Alist=CONFIRMED
> Many people have already started working on confirmed paper cuts, and a 
> few fixes have already landed.
> 
> *Paper cuts are trivially fixable usability bugs that the average user 
> would encounter during his/her first day of using vanilla Ubuntu 9.10.
>