The third milestone in the One Hundred Paper Cuts project came and went on Saturday. Good progress was made on most of the ten paper cuts (plus one Kubuntu paper cut) slated for this week, but I am sorry to report that only one paper cut was marked fixed, and even that issue still feels unresolved. Here are last week’s paper cuts, with a bit of information about their statuses:

Default folders in user’s home directory (e.g. Music, Photos) should have special icons

Fix committed in xdg-user-dirs (and the lovely Humanity icon theme by Daniel Fore), but remains triaged in Human.

Dim files in Nautilus that have been cut for later pasting

Cody Russell did some exploration and produced some preliminary patches.

Ubuntu’s LiveCD “Install” desktop icon is confusing

Evan Dandrea changed the icon label to “Install Ubuntu 9.10″, but the icon could still be improved.

Turn scrolling on window list to switch windows off by default

Marcus Carlson gathered, updated, and extended a patch from another bug. Vincent Untz reviewed the patch upstream and said it looks good!

Date & time applet should have tooltips on (ellipsised) calendar events

Upstream patch by Matt Barnes looks great according to Cosimo Cecchi.

Emblems get cut off when Nautilus zoomed to 150%

No patches submitted, with little activity (but many duplicates) in Launchpad or upstream. Upsteam has marked this bug “minor,” so if you’d like to write your first Nautilus patch this would make a good one!

System beep is overused and way too loud

The uncontrollable system beep (pcspkr) seems to have been tamed for at least some users, according to Scott Ritchie. Martin Pitt is on the case, so rest easy, for your chance of permanent hearing damage will soon be decreased dramatically.

Timezone picker map during install is unnecessarily small

I’m not sure who fixed this one, but the gorgeous timezone map by Ken Wimer now scales to fit the installer window so it’s much easier to locate and choose your region.

“System > About Ubuntu” should display Ubuntu’s version number more prominently

This should be very simple to fix, but it simply hasn’t found an owner yet.

File type labels can make file chooser dialog wider than your screen

This bug is marked as trivial in Bugzilla, but I heard that a disagreement over an implementation detail prevented a fix for this from landing. Keep in mind that many GNOME users cannot upload to Flickr in the meantime…

KDE menu button should have a Kubuntu logo

Roman Shtylman is actively working on this. Fixing it would be a great touch for Kubuntu.

If you can help close any of these, please do! Cleaning up patches and notifying upstreams (patiently and kindly) that reviews are needed is a great way to help. Otherwise, you can take a look at this week’s milestone; hopefully we can finalise more Round 3 paper cuts soon, and even more Round 4 paper cuts by this time next week.