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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.

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!

Karmic wallpapers

by Canonical on 9 July 2009

Ubuntu would like to include a beautiful set of images for our users to choose from in our next release. In order to accomplish this we have set up a wiki...

Test drive Ubuntu on your Mac with Ubuntu.app

by Canonical on 7 July 2009

During Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, Ivanka Majic, Kalle Persson, Andreas Nilsson, and I had a conversation about exposing designers to the growing momentum...

Breathe icons 1st release

by Canonical on 31 May 2009

The Breathe icon team just announced their initial release. Check it out if you haven’t seen it yet on the ubuntu wiki or on gnome-look.They’ve come a long...

Intrepid and beyond

by Canonical on 24 September 2008

Things are winding up for Intrepid. This time, we spent quite some effort on trying out new things. Our dark theme test seemed to pay off. Next time I would...