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Canonical
29 September 2009

On the Ubuntu 9.10 default wallpaper

Design Ubuntu

The first thing I did after installing Ubuntu 9.04 was to head straight for the Appearance settings to choose a desktop picture. Here’s what I was offered:Naturally, a panic ensued while I tried to work out how to synchronise filesystems between OS X a

Canonical
29 September 2009

So.. I got this new job..

Design Ubuntu

I always planned to make my millions and then spend them philanthropically, on a technological venture. Nanotech, bioengineering or artificial intelligence – some scientific enterprise for the benefit of humankind. Earlier this year, when the credit cr

Canonical
29 September 2009

Canonical
28 September 2009

It’s a typewriter too!

Design Ubuntu

Everyday Linux from Linux Eats, via Ivanka.This is a great sign.

Canonical
28 September 2009

Canonical
25 September 2009

Ubuntu Karmic desktop

Design Ubuntu

Yesterday was a big day for the Karmic desktop. Lots of pieces came together like switching icon themes, colour changes in the UI, a new dark theme for GDM, a new default background and, 19 photos chosen from the flickr group we started earlier this ye

Canonical
25 September 2009

Canonical
20 September 2009

Installing applications. There _is_ already a better way

Design Ubuntu

I read with interest an article over at daringfireball.net which pointed to a Mozilla piece about the complexities of installing applications on the Mac. For those not in the know the way that you install software on the Mac is that you typically get a disk image as a download. When you download this your

Canonical
20 September 2009

Canonical
11 September 2009

Unwatching the detail?

Design Ubuntu

Big problem just about every project I’ve ever worked on has been the rush to get something out the door. Estimates rarely stack up. Last minute changes and scope creep mean that there’s always more to do than was first thought. However, when it came to Apple’s software I was always impressed by the level

Canonical
11 September 2009

Canonical
28 August 2009

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 8 Progress Report

Design Ubuntu

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 8 came and went last week, and good progress was made:Login screen clock has AM/PM suffix despite 24-hour formatTed M Lin identified the root of the problem (a small string time descriptor needed changing) and Bruce Cowan notes that the upstream merge is pending.cliparts are not in...

Canonical
28 August 2009

Canonical
20 August 2009

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 7 Progress Report

Design Ubuntu

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 7 drew to a close last week. Here are the paper cuts that were (or were not) addressed:GNOME Panel icons (on right side) move apparently randomly on session start in some situationsRyan Maki wrote a surprisingly small patch to fix this long-standing and very annoying bug with over forty duplicates.

Canonical
20 August 2009

Canonical
11 August 2009

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 6 Progress Report

Design Ubuntu

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 6 contained some of the easiest-to-fix paper cuts we’ve seen so far, but it made less progress than any previous milestone. Perhaps this is indicative of the psychology behind paper cuts; the bugs that are easiest to fix often get the least attention. The two paper cuts that made discernible

Canonical
11 August 2009

Canonical
10 August 2009

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 5 Progress Report

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Without further ado, here’s an update on the fifth round of the One Hundred Paper Cuts project. The paper cuts addressed were:When nautilus cannot unmount a media, it must tell whyKarmic inherited a nice dialog from upstream Nautilus that assists the user who tries to unmount a busy drive. Excellent!Cannot install fonts...

Canonical
10 August 2009

Canonical
4 August 2009

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 4 Progress Report

Design Ubuntu

The fourth milestone in the One Hundred Paper Cuts project came and went over a week ago. Here’s a summary of the issues addressed:F-Spot puts photos in Photos folder not Pictures folderA patch from an F-Spot developer exists in Bugzilla, and has been iterated a few times using feedback from other developers. The upstream bug

Canonical
4 August 2009

Canonical
28 July 2009

Distributed user testing of archive behavior in Ubuntu

Design Ubuntu

In response to two paper cuts, “Have the file-roller automatically extract an archive on double click” and “‘Archive Manager’ doesn’t mean anything if you don’t know what an ‘archive’ is”, the Canonical Design Team devised a user test of archive behavior in Ubuntu, and we’re inviting the community to help administer the...

Canonical
28 July 2009

Canonical
24 July 2009

Karmic desktop contest script

Design Ubuntu

I wrote a quick-and-dirty Haskell script to download photos from the Karmic Desktop Contest, setting a new photo as your desktop background every ten minutes. Make sure you cabal install flickr first.

Canonical
24 July 2009

Canonical
20 July 2009

Featured paper cut: Nautilus, simplified

Design Ubuntu

I thought I’d share a fun paper cut from this week’s milestone that has seen some interesting developments. The proposed changes (and discussion) have grown larger than paper cut size, but some progress was made (resulting in a PPA for you to try) and you may find the work fascinating like I do. The paper

Canonical
20 July 2009

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