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 paper cut.
- 2. “Archive Manager” doesn’t mean anything if you don’t know what an “archive” is
- Ivanka Majic conducted a fair amount of user testing to determine the appropriate solution for this bug. Sebastian Bacher wrote a patch, but the upstream bug status is still UNCONFIRMED.
- 3. “Write in this folder” is confusing terminology
- Reported by Marc Carson, and quickly patched by Chow Loong Jin.
- 4. Drag and drop of images is dangerous in evince and too easy to perform
- Reported by Vincenzo Ciancia, this paper cut appears to be fixed upstream already!
- 5. ‘Open With’ Nautilus list is unsorted
- Reported by Gavin Hamill, and fixed by A. Walton upstream.
- 6. Set “open” animation to glide 2, not glide 1
- David Prieto reported this subtle annoyance, Dries Harnie wrote a patch, and Robert Ancell merged the patch into Karmic.
- 7. Search button does not toggle search field
- Reported by Jan Klopper, patched and sent upstream by Jean-Louis Dupond. The upstream status is still UNCONFIRMED.
- 8. Spellcheck in [Pidgin], Evolution, gedit etc doesn’t recognize “Ubuntu”
- Filed in 2005 by Chris Zubak-Skees, and fixed at long last by Bryce Harrington.
- 9. volume is set to zero when changed in fullscreen mode
- Reported a couple years ago by Sebastian Barthelemy, this bug with six duplicates was finally fixed upstream.
- 10. “Clean up by name” -> “Arrange items by name”
- Vlad Anuchin noticed this paper cut, and Bryce Harrington fixed it. The upstream status is still UNCONFIRMED.
- 11. PowerDevil plasma applet is too skinny, clipping off the sides of the applet
- This Kubuntu paper cut was reported by Michael Marley, and fixed upstream already!
In addition to all of the contributors already mentioned, I would like to thank Lightbreeze, mac_v, Sean Goff and Ilya B for their incredibly diligent bug triage work; they have done an amazing job sifting through the deluge of new paper cuts reported daily. Now it’s time to get working on next week’s milestone, or any of the other paper cuts targeted for Karmic. One thing we desperately need is more people writing patches. If you are able to patch applications like Nautilus, please grab a paper cut and have at it. Many of the fixes are one-liners, so they’re an easy way to score some karma 
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Yay! So often it’s these little things that make the difference, especially when they all add up. Now if I can just convince myself to go Linux cold turkey on my MacBook in addition to my Ubuntu netbook…
Thanks for continuing this work. I do have a concern regarding many of the UI changes made by Ubuntu. According to the “Capitalization” portion of the GNOME HIG (http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/design-text-labels.html.en), menu items are supposed to be Header capitalized. When Ubuntu developers change menu items, though, they almost invariably use Sentence capitalization instead. It’s always easy to see tweaks that Ubuntu made because they don’t follow this style. On the list above, the Archive Manager paper cut is affected by this, but the problem is present in several other places as well.
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