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 why
- Karmic inherited a nice dialog from upstream Nautilus that assists the user who tries to unmount a busy drive. Excellent!
- Cannot install fonts using method described in help
- GNOME 2.28 will address font installation issues in Karmic.
- Sunset tooltip does not respect 12hr/24hr setting
- Ted M Lin wrote a good looking patch and sent it upstream.
- Pressing Enter in the Print-to-File dialog’s “Name” entry does not print
- Mike Rooney tracked this paper cut carefully, and the behavior was recently fixed upstream.
- Panel separator between clock and FUSA is not meaningful
- Issue has been discussed with Ted Gould and the Canonical Design team, and the separator will be removed. I spent the week updating the Fast User Switcher for Karmic.
- Notifications when switching between AC/battery power should be improved
- Steve Dodier put together a nice demonstration of improved notifications for switching between AC and battery power. It should land in Karmic very soon.
- Downscrolling should decrease, not increase volume
- The volume applet has reverted to a vertical orientation, so this scrolling quirk has been resolved.
- [Eye of GNOME] doesn’t ask whether to save changes
- Mike Rooney has been very diligent about this change, following it upstream. Claudio Saavedra is working on a patch that may land in GNOME 2.28.
- Non-Konqueror browser in KDE results in bouncing icons for both browsers
- Mackenzie Morgan kept a careful eye on this annoying behavior. Now Firefox, Chrome, Arora, etc. icons will not inexplicably turn into Konqueror icons!
These paper cuts are behind schedule and could use your attention if you have some time to spend on them:
- No visual indication upon choosing another WiFi network
- Changes need to be made to make it more clear to the user what is happening when NetworkManager decides to join another network after failing to connect to a chosen network.
- Deleting an image that’s used as a desktop wallpaper removed it as a wallpaper without notice
- We could use some help creating a patch to store the current desktop wallpaper in a safe place in the event that the original source image is inadvertently (or intentionally) deleted.
As usual, I’d like to thank all of our papercutters for their terrific participation. Way to go, everyone — Karmic is going to be stellar!
5 comments
I love 100 paper cuts project! That first bug has been annoying me and my family for ages now, glad to see it squashed.
Thanks for all the updates! The papercut project is doing quite well although I am a bit concerned about the overall progress. Only 19 bug have the status fix released so far, with an additional 8 having a status of fix committed. That is less than halve of the 60 bugs targetted up to this date…
Wouter, you have a very good point but don’t place too much weight on those statuses. We are making great progress on a significant percentage of the paper cuts. The milestones simply outline a rough schedule for which paper cuts to focus on each week — the milestones are not deadlines for marking batches of paper cuts “Fix Committed/Released”. If you are able to determine that certain paper cuts have been fixed, please help out by changing their statuses.
@ Wouter & David
According to this page – http://is.gd/2bq19
we are doing quite well at the moment, considering we have targeted 60 bugs and 43 have been fixed.
Hi Thank you for you work
Question: I saw your Page with FUSA UI Changes.
Are this only Mockups?
When will be this in Karmic?