One Hundred Paper Cuts -- the first ten
Rick Spencer
rick.spencer at canonical.com
Fri Jun 19 17:01:12 BST 2009
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.
>
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