Monthly Archives: February 2010

One Hundred Paper Cuts for Lucid, Round 10

Time flies like an arrow! This week marks the final round of paper cuts for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS “Lucid Lynx.” We’ve done an outstanding job so far but we still have work ahead of us. Here are some paper cuts that need attention this round:

“Create Document” Templates difficult to use
Right-clicking on the Desktop and choosing [...]

Have you inspired millions of people lately?

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS “Lucid Lynx” is just around the corner and Ubuntu users around the world are eager to be inspired by your awesome artwork and photos. You know the drill–submit your photos to the Ubuntu Artwork Flickr pool and we’ll ship as many beautiful images as we can fit on the CD!

Lucid Paper Cuts Round 9 Progress Report

One Hundred Paper Cuts for Lucid is going well. 56 paper cuts have been fixed so far. We have to fix at least 20 more paper cuts to match the number of paper cuts fixed in Karmic, a record you can help us surpass by working on closing the 26 paper cuts with bugs attached.
This [...]

Improved Window Management Shortcuts Land in Lucid

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 mode!).
Super↓A↓↑↑ scales all windows on all workspaces.
Super↓D↓↑↑ replaces [...]