Blog posts tagged "Design"

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I finally got round to going through the photos on my camera this morning – I still haven’t got round to putting my holiday (August holiday!) photos on Flickr so I thought this could be the way to spend a chilly Saturday morning.As is obvious from the image, something went wrong. In fact two things

Karmic RetrospectiveLong story short: we fixed 76 paper cuts for Karmic. Hooray! Congratulations! For more details, see the Ubuntu wiki page.(I believe we actually reached 100, but many paper cuts were fixed without being reported or carefully tracked, and some individual paper cuts addressed multiple instances of a general of problem.)Wh

I just got my copy of “The Book of Inkscape” by Dmitry Kirsanov. It has excellent information for inkscape users both new and old 😉

Ladies and Gentlemen,I would like to share with you the short-list for the Ubuntu Karmic Koala Wallpaper’s Competition.We had so many fantastic entries and so little space on the final CD. At last count, 19 fabulous wallpapers made it onto the final image!I can’t thank everyone enough for their fantastic contributions. I wish there had

The first thing I did after installing Ubuntu 9.04 was to head straight for the Appearance settings to choose a desktop picture. Here’s what I was offered:Naturally, a panic ensued while I tried to work out how to synchronise filesystems between OS X a

I always planned to make my millions and then spend them philanthropically, on a technological venture. Nanotech, bioengineering or artificial intelligence – some scientific enterprise for the benefit of humankind. Earlier this year, when the credit cr

Everyday Linux from Linux Eats, via Ivanka.This is a great sign.

Yesterday was a big day for the Karmic desktop. Lots of pieces came together like switching icon themes, colour changes in the UI, a new dark theme for GDM, a new default background and, 19 photos chosen from the flickr group we started earlier this ye

I read with interest an article over at daringfireball.net which pointed to a Mozilla piece about the complexities of installing applications on the Mac. For those not in the know the way that you install software on the Mac is that you typically get a disk image as a download. When you download this your

Big problem just about every project I’ve ever worked on has been the rush to get something out the door. Estimates rarely stack up. Last minute changes and scope creep mean that there’s always more to do than was first thought. However, when it came to Apple’s software I was always impressed by the level

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 8 came and went last week, and good progress was made:Login screen clock has AM/PM suffix despite 24-hour formatTed M Lin identified the root of the problem (a small string time descriptor needed changing) and Bruce Cowan notes that the upstream merge is pending.cliparts are not in gallery-path of openoffice

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 7 drew to a close last week. Here are the paper cuts that were (or were not) addressed:GNOME Panel icons (on right side) move apparently randomly on session start in some situationsRyan Maki wrote a surprisingly small patch to fix this long-standing and very annoying bug with over forty duplicates.

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 6 contained some of the easiest-to-fix paper cuts we’ve seen so far, but it made less progress than any previous milestone. Perhaps this is indicative of the psychology behind paper cuts; the bugs that are easiest to fix often get the least attention. The two paper cuts that made discernible

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 whyKarmic inherited a nice dialog from upstream Nautilus that assists the user who tries to unmount a busy drive. Excellent!Cannot install fonts using method descr

The fourth milestone in the One Hundred Paper Cuts project came and went over a week ago. Here’s a summary of the issues addressed:F-Spot puts photos in Photos folder not Pictures folderA patch from an F-Spot developer exists in Bugzilla, and has been iterated a few times using feedback from other developers. The upstream bug