Archive for August, 2009

Just got back from vacation. In the last 14 years vacation has meant spending a few weeks in America visiting family (or driving my wife’s family around America) with the occasional long weekend visiting something nearby in Europe. All things considere…

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 format
Ted 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 situations
Ryan 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 why
Karmic inherited a nice dialog from upstream Nautilus that assists the user who tries to unmount a busy drive. Excellent!
Cannot install fonts using method described [...]

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 folder
A patch from an F-Spot developer exists in Bugzilla, and has been iterated a few times using feedback from other developers. The upstream bug [...]