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"Design"

Canonical
24 January 2010

Improving Launchpad bug workflow for opportunistic programmers

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

I’m a talented software engineer. I have a good deal of application programming experience on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iPhone, Android, and the Web. I’m crazy about style guidelines, correctness, functional decomposition, self-documenting code, explicit documentation, code review, unit tests, etc. I’m confident that for most application co ...

Canonical
12 January 2010

Draggy Fists

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

It always feels dangerous to mess with the mouse pointer when working with Flash as it has a tendency to vanish entirely if you you miss a mouse eve due to the mouse button being released outside the Flash window.This has resulted in my fake version ...

Canonical
11 January 2010

Empathy Paper Jam

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Last week marked our first “paper jam” for the Lucid cycle, during which the Ubuntu community identified ten potential paper cuts affecting Empathy to fix in Ubuntu 10.04. These paper cuts include:Open (but do not raise) new conversation windows automatically“Automatically connect on startup” setting confusing – users may expect this to r ...

Canonical
9 December 2009

Excuse me!?

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Excuse me!? ...

Canonical
8 December 2009

A bug in two parts

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

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 ...

Canonical
24 November 2009

One Hundred Paper Cuts: Karmic summary and Lucid plans

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

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 ...

Canonical
24 November 2009

Fresh off the press

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

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

Canonical
26 October 2009

The most beautiful blog post ever*

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

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 ...

Canonical
29 September 2009

On the Ubuntu 9.10 default wallpaper

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

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 ...

Canonical
29 September 2009

So.. I got this new job..

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

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 ...

Canonical
28 September 2009

It’s a typewriter too!

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

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

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