Comments on: 100 More Papercuts for Ubuntu 10.04

By: Fred

Fred — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:03:17 +0000

What’s wrong with the software center (not store)? It seems quite usable to me. You just type in the name or a description of the app you want in the search box and up it comes and then you click install. Easy as pie.

By: Temik

Temik — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:55:14 +0000

Jeez, people are concerned with misspelled objects while Ubuntu software store is such a mess! It’s user interface can be used as an example “how not to make a UI”! It’s confusing, annoying and became totally useless. Since it was introduced I started using only apt-cache and synaptic. I still don’t understand why it wasn’t included in 100 papercuts.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:37:56 +0000

Also, get rid of the steaming pile of crashiness that is Evolution. Those who really need the Exchange web interface screen scraper which is its main feature know where to get it. Just like Gimp.

By: aikiwolfie

aikiwolfie — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:33:42 +0000

Bug number 6 is the only one that annoys me. Although of late it’s not been an issue. All my icons are staying put.

By: Jef Spaleta

Jef Spaleta — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:25:08 +0000

lefty.crupps:

The rate of upstream patch submission in the Karmic papercuts is quite good. Feel free to confirm that for yourself by datamining launchpad. I’ve spot checked for the paperpaper cuts I was interested in and didn’t see a problem. I personally don’t have any criticism on the rate of upstream patch submission for the papercut bugs in Karmic and have no factual basis to imply that there may be a problem with Lucid patch submission rates. I fully expect the Lucid papercuts patch submission to be at above 90%.

-jef

By: lefty.crupps

lefty.crupps — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:02:03 +0000

These generally should be passed upstream, and so most of these issues should be fixed not only in Ubuntu, but in any software package which the *buntus use. We’ll see if that happens…

By: Keefe Gabriel

Keefe Gabriel — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:17:47 +0000

calm down, Adam.

By: adam

adam — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:58:41 +0000

I am unable to comment on the paper cuts that were fixed for 9.10 or still exist in 9.10. I have noticed that the *.10 releases always have more bugs than the *.04 releases, so I upgrade once a year. But I do agree about the paper cuts you mention here, it is unprofessional to reference things in a different manner in different places in OS. It also does not look that professional when things are misspelled. The one thing that I am aware of in 9.10 that was on purpose is the changing of the placement of the notifications 25% lower, almost in the middle of the screen, WHY, WHY, WHY??? That is the stupidest thing I can think of. It was perfect the way it was! It’s stupid things like this that make me question this distro’s governance and think about going back to fedora!

By: Jef Spaleta

Jef Spaleta — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:52:36 +0000

Number 6.

Original patch to fix this was produced by Mark McLoughlin (Red Hat employee) in 2005 in response to a Fedora bug report and reported to upstream gnome (gnome ticket 314235). Updated for gnome 2.26 in Ubuntu by Ryan Maki in 2009 and re-reported to upstream gnome (gnome ticket 341441).

The question is what’s holding up the application of the fix by Gnome upstream.

-jef