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The Web and design team at Canonical pride themselves on building things properly, not quickly. Always looking for creative ways to push the bounderies of the web.

Ubuntu Karmic desktop

by Canonical on 25 September 2009

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...

Installing applications. There _is_ already a better way

by Canonical on 20 September 2009

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...

Unwatching the detail?

by Canonical on 11 September 2009

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...

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 8 Progress Report

by Canonical on 28 August 2009

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...

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 7 Progress Report

by Canonical on 20 August 2009

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...

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 6 Progress Report

by Canonical on 11 August 2009

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....

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 5 Progress Report

by Canonical on 10 August 2009

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...

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 4 Progress Report

by Canonical on 4 August 2009

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...

Distributed user testing of archive behavior in Ubuntu

by Canonical on 28 July 2009

In response to two paper cuts, “Have the file-roller automatically extract an archive on double click” and “‘Archive Manager’ doesn’t mean anything if you...

Karmic desktop contest script

by Canonical on 24 July 2009

I wrote a quick-and-dirty Haskell script to download photos from the Karmic Desktop Contest, setting a new photo as your desktop background every ten minutes....

Featured paper cut: Nautilus, simplified

by Canonical on 20 July 2009

I thought I’d share a fun paper cut from this week’s milestone that has seen some interesting developments. The proposed changes (and discussion) have grown...

Ubuntu Flickr photo submissions

by Canonical on 17 July 2009

The flickr group photos are coming along very well! ( http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-artwork/ ) Keep up the good work!