Monthly Archives: June 2009

GNOME Do 0.8.2 Released

GNOME Do 0.8.2 was just released! Peng has a great post describing what’s new. Get the application source here and the plugins source here.

Five straightforward steps to vanquish Mono

Recently, the noisy debate over whether Mono poses a real threat to Linux has gotten even noisier. I’m not a lawyer so I’m not going to comment on matters I don’t fully understand, but I want to offer a constructive suggestion. No number of blog posts or vitriolic Reddit comments can by themselves generate a [...]

First paper cut milestone reached!

The first One Hundred Paper Cuts milestone was completed on time! Ten Ubuntu paper cuts and one Kubuntu paper cut were fixed:

1. Width of notifications seem arbitrarily small
Mirco Müller, Mat Tomaszewski, Matthew Paul Thomas and I worked tirelessly to change this to this. Mirco documents the painstaking attention to detail that went into fixing this [...]

(A tentative list of) One Hundred Paper Cuts

Here is a tentative list of 100 paper cuts for Karmic, divided into 10 weekly milestones of 10 paper cuts each (some milestones contain an additional Kubuntu paper cut):

https://edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/karmic

Many of these paper cuts call for trivial patches, requiring little design consideration or user testing. Some of the paper cuts would benefit from the involvement of [...]