Blog posts tagged
"Design"

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Canonical
8 February 2010

New toy

Design Ubuntu

Picked up a N900 the other day. It’s really quite amazing. Best of all it’s linux *and* the keyboard is big enough for my thick fingers. The design isn’t as nice as the iphone though.

Canonical
8 February 2010

Canonical
5 February 2010

Improved window management shortcuts land in Lucid

Design Ubuntu

Sebastian Bacher landed improved Compiz keyboard shortcucts in Lucid this week during the distro sprint in Portland, Oregon (which is by far the best sprint I’ve ever been to–everybody is rocking):Super↓E↓↑↑ triggers Expo as usual.Super↓W↓↑↑ scales all windows on your current workspace (hint: try typing in scale...

Canonical
5 February 2010

Canonical
5 February 2010

Ending poverty with open hardware

Design Ubuntu

The Hexayurt is a new kind of sheltering solution. To make the simplest hexayurt, make a wall by putting six sheets of plywood on their sides in a hexagon. Cut six more sheets in half diagonally, and screw them together into a shallow cone. Lift the roof on to the wall with a large group

Canonical
5 February 2010

Canonical
3 February 2010

Do I really want to touch my computer all day?

Design Ubuntu

This concept video has been doing the rounds following a brief showing on Tech Crunch. It looks like a tablet interface you could do work on but I have to wonder if that’s a way of working that I’d even really want. For better or worse we’ve established a way of working with traditional documents

Canonical
3 February 2010

Canonical
2 February 2010

Platform sprint in Portland

Design Ubuntu

The Ubuntu platform sprint in Portland, Oregon has been an amazing experience. We’ve gotten loads of work done and are having a great time in a wonderful city. Compared to Dallas, this city rocks 😉

Canonical
2 February 2010

Canonical
26 January 2010

Lucid Paper Jam update!

Design Ubuntu

I thought I’d write a quick update on paper cut progress for Lucid. Last week was our “Sound & Video” paper jam. The following paper cuts were fixed:Totem: Must have a fullscreen button“Razor” [is] an odd name for the split toolRhythmbox Notification Bubble shows wrong cover art[Sound Recorder] Cancel button doesn’t use...

Canonical
26 January 2010

Canonical
24 January 2010

Improving Launchpad bug workflow for opportunistic programmers

Design Ubuntu

I’m a talented software engineer. I have a good deal of application programming experience on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iPhone, Android, and the Web. I’m crazy about style guidelines, correctness, functional decomposition, self-documenting code, explicit documentation, code review, unit tests, etc. I’m confident that for...

Canonical
24 January 2010

Canonical
12 January 2010

Draggy Fists

Design Ubuntu

It always feels dangerous to mess with the mouse pointer when working with Flash as it has a tendency to vanish entirely if you you miss a mouse eve due to the mouse button being released outside the Flash window.This has resulted in my fake version

Canonical
12 January 2010

Canonical
11 January 2010

Empathy Paper Jam

Design Ubuntu

Last week marked our first “paper jam” for the Lucid cycle, during which the Ubuntu community identified ten potential paper cuts affecting Empathy to fix in Ubuntu 10.04. These paper cuts include:Open (but do not raise) new conversation windows automatically“Automatically connect on startup” setting confusing – users...

Canonical
11 January 2010

Canonical
9 December 2009

Excuse me!?

Design Ubuntu

Excuse me!?

Canonical
9 December 2009

Canonical
8 December 2009

A bug in two parts

Design Ubuntu

I finally got round to going through the photos on my camera this morning – I still haven’t got round to putting my holiday (August holiday!) photos on Flickr so I thought this could be the way to spend a chilly Saturday morning.As is obvious from the image, something went wrong. In fact two things

Canonical
8 December 2009

Canonical
24 November 2009

One Hundred Paper Cuts: Karmic summary and Lucid plans

Design Ubuntu

Karmic RetrospectiveLong story short: we fixed 76 paper cuts for Karmic. Hooray! Congratulations! For more details, see the Ubuntu wiki page.(I believe we actually reached 100, but many paper cuts were fixed without being reported or carefully tracked, and some individual paper cuts addressed multiple instances of a...

Canonical
24 November 2009

Canonical
24 November 2009

Fresh off the press

Design Ubuntu

I just got my copy of “The Book of Inkscape” by Dmitry Kirsanov. It has excellent information for inkscape users both new and old 😉

Canonical
24 November 2009

Canonical
26 October 2009

The most beautiful blog post ever*

Design Ubuntu

Ladies and Gentlemen,I would like to share with you the short-list for the Ubuntu Karmic Koala Wallpaper’s Competition.We had so many fantastic entries and so little space on the final CD. At last count, 19 fabulous wallpapers made it onto the final image!I can’t thank everyone enough for their fantastic contributions....

Canonical
26 October 2009

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