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List:       kde
Subject:    [kde] 100 Paperkuts
From:       Celeste Lyn Paul <celeste () kde ! org>
Date:       2009-06-20 3:07:16
Message-ID: 200906192307.18239.celeste () kde ! org
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Many of you may have heard about Canonical's new 100 papercuts project 
[1,2,3]. The goal is to fix 100 minor usability bugs for the Karmic release. 
Although the primary focus is Ubuntu, Kubuntu can benefit from this program as 
well.

A papercut is easy to fix, will improve the user experience for a lot of users, 
and is present in Kubuntu Jaunty 9.10. For example, a papercut could be 
improving a bad label or icon, fixing a HIG violation, or rearranging a 
configuration dialog to make more sense, A papercut is not a new feature 
request or change requiring more than a few likes of code.

Papercuts are like fleas on a dog. A single flea is no big deal, but many fleas 
are quite annoying. The more papercuts we fix, the greater the effect on the 
overall Kubuntu experience.

We need users to find and report minor usability bugs to Launchpad and assign 
them to the hundredpapercuts project. Attention Non-Kubuntu Users: Keep in 
mind that Kubuntu papercuts are often also KDE papercuts. Even if you do not 
use Kubuntu, voting on Kubuntu papercuts in Launchpad can benefit all KDE 
users. Much of Kubuntu's development work is contributed upstream to KDE. 
Papercuts we fix for Karmic could potentially show up in KDE 4.4! Just log into 
Launchpad and import a KDE bug and assign it to the hundredpapercuts project.

Time is running out to submit papercuts. So this weekend, I encourage everyone 
to take a few minutes this weekend to think of one usability papercut that has 
been bothering you and report it. When you find or submit a bug, click on "Also 
affects project", specify hundredpapercuts as the project, and click Continue.

Cheers!

~ Celeste

[1] http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/06/canonical-to-boost-ubuntu-
usability-by-tackling-papercuts.ars
[2] https://launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts
[3] http://blog.davebsd.com/2009/06/15/calling-all-paper-cutters/

-- 
Celeste Lyn Paul
KDE Usability Project
usability.kde.org
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