Canonical is launching a new project to improve the usability of the platform. Remember that Canonical is the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution. The project is aimed at identifying and resolving 100 minor bugs which negatively impact the Ubuntu user experience before the release of the next major version in October.
This initiative, which is called One Hundred Paper Cuts, will be implemented by Canonical’s new design and user experience team in collaboration with the Ubuntu community. Canonical’s design experts have called for Ubuntu users to participate by helping to identify relevant bugs. They are specifically looking for easily fixable bugs that impact the usability of key system components such as the panels and file manager. Canonical hopes to boost the overall quality of the platform by addressing a multitude of subtle issues that developers would otherwise ignore. Many of the improvements that are applied through this effort will directly benefit upstream projects.
[Via arstechnica.com]
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Good to see a focus on polish, the accumulation of a whole load of little fixes makes all the difference…
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